Writing the BoK: designing for the networked learning environment of college students

  • Authors:

  • Paul Burke;Sue Nguyen;Pen-Fan Sun;Shelley Evenson;Jeong Kim;Laura Wright;Nabeel Ahmed;Arjun Patel

  • Affiliations:

  • Carnegie Mellon, Margaret Morrison, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon, Margaret Morrison, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon, Margaret Morrison, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon, Margaret Morrison, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon, Margaret Morrison, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon, Margaret Morrison, Pittsburgh, PA;eBusiness Technology, Carnegie Mellon;Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon

  • Venue:
  • DUX '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Some believe that the fundamental pedagogy of foreign language instruction has existed for hundreds of years. [40] That said, converting a class from a traditional course to an online solution cannot be as simple as posting a textbook online and offering periodic subject tests because it does not correctly model the traditional language learning experience. It removes the community-driven interactions of a classroom.Language is acquired through a combination of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Students need a variety of individual and community-based activities in all of these categories to internalize the subject matter. Course material must be parsed using these categories and distributed in ways that support the active, collaborative lifestyles of today's students. This will enable students to learn from wherever they are whenever time is available. On the other end, instructors should be able to monitor all student activity that pertains to the learning experience to assess student performance.These are some of the key principles for BoK, a subscription-based, community-maintained model for second-language learning and instruction.