scholarly journals VIRTUAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE TRAINING OF A PROFESSIONALLY COMPETENT FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Kanbakova ◽  
Mariana Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Pedagogical Training

The article characterizes the basis of the notion of a virtual educational environment: its interpretations, specific features and criteria. It also provides justification in favor of the importance of this concept in pedagogical training as well as a set of drawbacks. The analysis of scientific works of foreign and domestic researchers within the framework of the topic is carried out. The purpose of this article is to analyze and reveal the foundations of virtual learning environments from the point of view of its significance for a competent and developed teacher of a foreign language.

Using 3-D Virtual Learning Environments to Improve Listening Skill

2015 ◽  
pp. 296-312
Author(s):  
Ramazan Zengin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
Teaching Context ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Listening Skill

The recent developments in educational technologies have given opportunity to the use of various Internet-based resources, apps and Interactive Multimedia Software. This variety has provided freedom for foreign language learners to reach multiple sources of technology. The immersive nature of 3-D virtual learning environments such as the Second Life may provide many new opportunities for authentic communication, cooperative creation of content, and multiple modes of information processing in the context of foreign language learning. This chapter will discuss how these new technologies can be used in language classrooms to improve students' listening skill which is important for effective communication. In the digital age, new technologies are repositioning listening as an important ‘new' literacy where new resources can be used to provide a better learning-teaching context. Today's young people known as “digital natives” are born into a digital world, and they spend hours in front of their digital devices.

scholarly journals Entorno virtual de aprendizaje compartido en Educación Superior

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita R. Rodríguez Gallego ◽  
Antonia López Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
The Creation

<p>Cada vez son más demandadas las plataformas virtuales apoyadas en el concepto web 2.0 y en las Redes Personales de Aprendizaje (PLN) al garantizar la conversación entre agentes educativos y la colaboración orientada a la producción conjunta de conocimiento.</p><p>Desde este punto de vista, surgieron los Entornos Virtuales de Aprendizaje (VLE) dónde se configuran, integran y combinan nuevas aplicaciones adaptadas a las necesidades de los usuarios.</p><p>El propósito final de esta experiencia es la creación de un entorno virtual compartido para lograr que el aprendizaje no se vincule exclusivamente a una actividad memorística y que a través del uso combinado de la plataforma virtual, herramientas de la web 2.0 y la red social los estudiantes puedan crear su propio espacio de trabajo en el que quede reflejado la búsqueda y transformación de la información, creación de recursos para el aprendizaje y tareas de colaboración.</p><p>Nuestro entorno virtual de aprendizaje compartido ha sido puesto a prueba, implementado y evaluado durante el segundo cuatrimestre, en el marco de la asignatura Didáctica General en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Sevilla (España) durante el curso académico 2009-2010.</p><p>Una encuesta efectuada revela hechos interesantes sobre el éxito de este entorno virtual compartido en relación con la motivación y los resultados de aprendizaje de los estudiantes. </p><p> </p><p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p class="REDUTITULOINGLES"><em><strong><span lang="GL">Shared virtual learning environments in higher education.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></em></p><p>There is an increasing demand for virtual platforms based on the concept of Web 2.0 and on Personal Learning Networks (PLN) as these guarantee conversations between educational agents and cooperation aimed at the joint knowledge production.</p><p>From this point of view, Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) have emerged in which new applications adapted to users’ needs are configured, integrated and combined.</p><p>The ultimate purpose of this experience is the creation of a shared virtual environment to ensure that learning is not linked exclusively to rote activity. Through the combined use of the virtual platform, Web 2.0 tools and social networking, students can create their own workspace in which the search and processing of information, as well as the creation of learning resources and collaboration tasks are reflected.</p><p>Our shared virtual learning environment has been tested, implemented and evaluated in the second semester, as part of the General Teaching Methodology course in the Faculty of Education at the University of Seville (Spain) during the 2009 – 2010 academic year.</p><p>A survey reveals interesting facts about the success of the shared virtual environment in relation to the motivation and learning outcomes of students.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals The Effects of Enhancing Prospective EFL Teachers' Knowledge Management Strategies in Virtual Learning Environments on Their Ideational Flexibility and Engagement

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Ammar Abdullah Mahmoud Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
The Impact

The last few years have witnessed an increased interest in moving away from traditional language instruction settings towards more hybrid and virtual learning environments. Face-to-face interaction, guided practice, and uniformity of knowledge sources and skills are all replaced by settings where multiplicity of views from different learning communities, interconnectedness, self-directedness, and self-management of knowledge and learning are increasingly emphasized. This shift from walled-classroom instruction with its limited scope and resources to hybrid and virtual learning environments with their limitless provisions requires that learners be equipped with requisite skills and strategies to manage knowledge and handle language learning in ways commensurate with the nature and limitless possibilities of these new environments. The current study aimed at enhancing knowledge management strategies of EFL teachers in virtual learning environments and examine the impact on their ideational flexibility and engagement in language learning settings. A knowledge management model was proposed and field-test on a cohort of prospective EFL teachers in the Emirati context. Participants were prospective EFL teachers enrolled in the Methods of Teaching Courses and doing their practicum in the Emirati EFL context. Participants' ideational flexibility was tapped via a bi-methodical approach including a contextualized task and a decontextualized one. Their engagement in virtual language learning settings was tapped via an engagement scale. Results of the study indicated that enhancing prospective EFL teachers' knowledge management strategies in virtual learning environments had a significant impact on their ideational flexibility and engagement in foreign language learning settings. Details of the instructional intervention, instruments for tapping students’ ideational flexibility and engagement, and results of the study are discussed. Implications for foreign language teaching/learning along with suggestions for further research are also provided.Keywords: Knowledge management, ideational flexibility, student engagement

An Experienced Austrian Educator's View on the 3-D Skills Implemented to Design and Integrate an Alien Mystery in OpenSim

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella K. Hadjistassou ◽  
Judith Molka-Danielsen
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
School Students ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Training Stage ◽  
Task Oriented

With their playful game-oriented nature, virtual learning environments can form constructive ecosocial settings for enacting game-driven collaborative tasks that have real pedagogical, learning, and teaching implications. Even though multiple studies have been undertaken in virtual learning environments, there is a dearth of studies on the constellation of complex interrelated skills and knowledge that second or foreign language educators integrate in actual situated contexts to design and offer task-oriented game-driven learning activities. Building on Compton's (2009) framework, this study investigates the complex set of technological, pedagogical, and evaluation skills that an expert Austrian educator, Franziska integrated to design a multifaceted game-oriented plot in the virtual village of Chatterdale in OpenSim in order to engage thirteen-year-old Austrian and Norwegian high school students in oral interactions during three slightly different task-oriented quests to solve an alien mystery. Data analysis of an interview, reflective comments on a wiki, and follow-up emails indicate that the design and integration of an epistemic game in praxis forms a collaborative endeavor involving the integration of a set of complex and multifaceted sets of skills and knowledge. The study investigates the skills that emerged during two stages, the planning, preparation, and student training stage and integration stage. The findings of this study can be used to broaden the pedagogical discussion on the skills and knowledge that second or foreign language teachers need to acquire and apply to design successful playful task-driven learning quests in virtual learning environments.

scholarly journals Virtual Learning Environments in the Light of Mind Maps and Flashcards: a Systematic Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Augusto Weiand ◽  
Francieli Motter Ludovico ◽  
Patrícia da Silva Campelo Costa Barcellos
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Mind Maps

Mind Maps' and Flashcards' techniques are widely used in various sectors for different purposes. The use of Mind Maps focuses on the elaboration of physical models representing the neural connections between certain subjects, as well as for projects organization, for educational purposes or as a way of presenting content. Flashcards, on the other hand, propose a learning methodology based on key points of the approached content, commonly used for Foreign Language teaching and learning. Thus, this Systematic Literature Review proposes a theoretical and exploratory research on the application of Mind Maps and Flashcards in Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). Through the analyzed bibliography, approaches which connect Foreign Language teaching and learning with Flashcards were found and the studies proved this association to be feasible. However, neither VLE based on Mind Maps or Flashcards were found, nor theoretical evidence describing the implementation of both methodologies together.

scholarly journals Innovations in Education. Socio-Economic Grounds of the Use of Virtual Leaning Environments

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Веретехина ◽  
Svetlana Veretekhina ◽  
Кожаев ◽  
Yuriy Kozhaev ◽  
Кузнецова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Technical Features

The article describes distance learning. List of technical features that allow to solve tasks of organization of distance learning is given. The methodology for distance learning is described. It is proved that the virtual learning environment upgrades quality of learning. The authors considered the benefits of using virtual learning environment from the point of view of control over the work of the teacher and the student in the system. The authors summarize materials of the sociological research among students on the issue of the importance of education through a virtual learning environment. The article gives the socio-economic grounds of effectiveness of using virtual learning environments for distance learning. The economic justification of efficiency of use of virtual learning environments consists of two components of costs: for organization and for the student. Expenditure for educational institutions is considered. Cuts in expenditures for educational institutions are proved. Expenses for students are reviewed. In the conclusion it is summarized that the use of virtual learning environments helps to optimize human and financial resources of the organization.

Exploring Self-Regulation Based Virtual Learning Environments Using Diary

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Mohamed Hussien Ahmed ◽  
Chaklam Silpasuwanchai ◽  
Naglaa Mohammed Fares ◽  
Zeinab Mohamed Amin ◽  
Abd El-Rahem Ahmed Ahmed Salama
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments

Developing information literacy courses for students through virtual learning environments in Tanzania: Prospects and challenges

IFLA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 034003522110182
Author(s):  
Evans F Wema
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The Face

This article reviews literature on the use of virtual learning environments by highlighting their potential and the challenges of introducing the same in Tanzania. It introduces the concept of virtual learning environments by demonstrating their applications to support teaching and learning. The article discusses the use of virtual learning environments in teaching information literacy courses by highlighting the success of using such tools in facilitating the teaching of information literacy courses to library users. In this review, special emphasis is placed on attempts by Tanzanian institutions of higher learning to introduce web-based teaching of information literacy and the challenges faced. The review reveals the need for Tanzanian institutions of higher learning to develop virtual learning environments to facilitate the teaching of information literacy courses to students and faculty so as to reach many of those who may not manage to attend the face-to-face information literacy sessions that are offered by librarians on a regular basis.

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