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Papers by Mirjam hauck
Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2022
Language Learning Strategies in Independent Settings, 2008
This chapter addresses a key question in relation to the popularity of massive open online course... more This chapter addresses a key question in relation to the popularity of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other forms of collaborative online learning: why it is that learners collaborate with one another at all rather than simply identifying and pursuing their own individual goals? To answer this question, the chapter draws extensively on sociality theory, which predicates that human beings are actually selected for their capacity to feel empathy, show altruism, exercise reciprocity and fairness, as well as for their aptitude for cooperating with others. The evidence to suggest that these traits are to be found in today’s online learners is offered in the form of a case study drawn from an 8-week MOOC in open translation practices (the OT12 MOOC) organized by members of the Department of Languages at The Open University, UK, from October to December 2012. Taking as its starting point Cormier’s (2010) framework of the five steps to success in a MOOC (orient, declare, network, c...
The Evaluating and Upscaling Telecollaborative Teacher Education (EVALUATE) project was a Europea... more The Evaluating and Upscaling Telecollaborative Teacher Education (EVALUATE) project was a European policy experiment funded by Erasmus+ between 2017 and 2019. The EVALUATE consortium trained teacher trainers and organised virtual exchanges which involved over 1,000 student teachers at over 34 initial teacher education institutions in Europe and beyond. Following the successful capstone conference of the EVALUATE project in September 2019, a number of colleagues answered our call for submissions to the proceedings. The articles you find here provide a window into the multifaceted contributions not only to the conference, but to the field of telecollaboration and virtual exchange at large. We hope you enjoy finding out about the many different ways in which our colleagues engage with this innovative pedagogical approach that combines the deep impact of intercultural dialogue and exchange with the broad reach of digital technology.
Equinox Publishing Ltd. eBooks, Jun 30, 2022
As discussed in earlier chapters, the potential of Web 2.0 tools and social networking environmen... more As discussed in earlier chapters, the potential of Web 2.0 tools and social networking environments for enhanced peer interaction is being recognised across the education sector. Many institutions are moving their blended and online learning provision from a ‘computer-as-tutor’ approach towards models which foster knowledge co-construction and sharing in socially networked learning communities. Yet, many education professionals find that they do not have the skills required to help their students to fully benefit from this paradigm shift. The TESOL-Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2012 module Tutoring with Web 2.0 tools – Designing for Social Presence provides the backdrop for this contribution. The module was designed to develop effective learner-centred online moderation skills, with a focus on the role of Social Presence (SP). Although hosted by the EVO, the programme was open to practitioners from all subject areas, and participants represented a multifaceted community in terms o...
This symposium highlighted ways CALL might serve a critical role in fostering diversity and inclu... more This symposium highlighted ways CALL might serve a critical role in fostering diversity and inclusion across languages and cultures, with papers focusing on four different but interrelated themes. The first paper considers how factors such as financial status, employment, family responsibilities and nationality can prevent language educators from attending conferences, and outlines ways CALL can enable wider participation. The second shows how digital literacies, including intercultural, ethical and critical literacy, can help language teachers and learners to build bridges between cultures. The third argues that rather than connecting people, the Internet and social media seem to be isolating them in bubbles with like-minded others, proposing virtual exchange (telecollaboration) as a way educators can use the Internet to help students connect with, learn from and collaborate with peers with very different life experiences. The fourth advocates systematic teacher and student prepara...
The last two decades have seen a growing interest in the role of the individual in the learning p... more The last two decades have seen a growing interest in the role of the individual in the learning process. We are starting to better understand the contributions that learners make to their own learning and the ways in which as educators we can build on this. This is a positive development as the majority of language learning increasingly takes place outside the language classroom. A sizeable body of general education research now exists that identifies the importance of informal learning and the ways in which this can be supported. ...
Journal of International Students
The recent expansion of virtual exchange (VE) in lieu of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing ad... more The recent expansion of virtual exchange (VE) in lieu of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing advance of technology has resulted in considerably larger numbers of VE participants for those in certain areas and contexts, yet not all would-be participants have been so fortunate. In some regions and in various contexts, challenges in VE implementation have resulted in disadvantaged populations in terms of underrepresentation and marginalization in global VE networks. To illuminate such challenges, a mixed-method approach was utilized in the current study, beginning with a global survey to elucidate reasons for underrepresentation in terms of political, governmental, institutional, administrative, technological, pedagogical, cultural and personal challenges. Thereafter, semi-structured interviews with instructors, administrators, and educational decision makers were conducted to gain further insights. Although VE is now well established as an impactful mode of studying abroad, various ...
Motivating students to contribute to learning communities is not a new problem, nor is it restric... more Motivating students to contribute to learning communities is not a new problem, nor is it restricted to online learning. However it becomes especially obvious in large online courses where student collaboration is one of the intended learning outcomes. This paper describes two models for driving student engagement in producing user-generated and user-reviewed content. It discusses the motivation for participation and gives results from two subject areas. The behaviour of students of second and third level language courses is compared to that ...
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific ... more HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et a ̀ la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.
The JALT CALL Journal, 2006
In order to respond to learners' need for more flexible speaking opportunities and to overcom... more In order to respond to learners' need for more flexible speaking opportunities and to overcome the geographical challenge of students spread over the United Kingdom and continental Western Europe, the Open University recently introduced Internet-based, real-time audio conferencing, thus making a groundbreaking move in the distance learning and teaching of languages. Since February 2002, online tutorials for language courses have been offered using Lyceum, an Internet-based audio-graphics conferencing tool developed in house. Our research is based on the first Open University course ever to deliver tutorials solely online, a level 2 German course, and this article considers some of the challenges of implementing online tuition. As a starting point, we present the pedagogical rationale underpinning the virtual learning and teaching environment. Then we examine the process of development and implementation of online tuition in terms of activity design, tutor training, and student s...
Language Learning & Technology would like to acknowledge and thank the following people who revie... more Language Learning & Technology would like to acknowledge and thank the following people who reviewed manuscripts for us during the production of volume 11 and throughout the 2007 production year. Their contribution has helped the journal to grow and continue its success.
and other research outputs Telecollaboration in multimodal environments: the impact on task desig... more and other research outputs Telecollaboration in multimodal environments: the impact on task design and learner interaction
Executive Summary This report should be read in conjunction with that for the related project con... more Executive Summary This report should be read in conjunction with that for the related project conducted by Jill Shaw. They describe aspects of a two linked research projects investigating student participation in subject communities via fOUndIt, a tool for sharing links to online resources. This report is based on, and extends, a paper [1] presented at EISTA 2009 in Florida in July 2009.
and other research outputs What’s in it for me? The stick and the carrot as tools for developing ... more and other research outputs What’s in it for me? The stick and the carrot as tools for developing academic communities
ReCALL, 1999
To respond to students' need for more speaking practice, the Open University's Centre f... more To respond to students' need for more speaking practice, the Open University's Centre for Modern Lan-guages is currently investigating the benefits of using an Internet-based, real-time audio application in distance learning/teaching. During a four-month trial period, French and ...
Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2022
Language Learning Strategies in Independent Settings, 2008
This chapter addresses a key question in relation to the popularity of massive open online course... more This chapter addresses a key question in relation to the popularity of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other forms of collaborative online learning: why it is that learners collaborate with one another at all rather than simply identifying and pursuing their own individual goals? To answer this question, the chapter draws extensively on sociality theory, which predicates that human beings are actually selected for their capacity to feel empathy, show altruism, exercise reciprocity and fairness, as well as for their aptitude for cooperating with others. The evidence to suggest that these traits are to be found in today’s online learners is offered in the form of a case study drawn from an 8-week MOOC in open translation practices (the OT12 MOOC) organized by members of the Department of Languages at The Open University, UK, from October to December 2012. Taking as its starting point Cormier’s (2010) framework of the five steps to success in a MOOC (orient, declare, network, c...
The Evaluating and Upscaling Telecollaborative Teacher Education (EVALUATE) project was a Europea... more The Evaluating and Upscaling Telecollaborative Teacher Education (EVALUATE) project was a European policy experiment funded by Erasmus+ between 2017 and 2019. The EVALUATE consortium trained teacher trainers and organised virtual exchanges which involved over 1,000 student teachers at over 34 initial teacher education institutions in Europe and beyond. Following the successful capstone conference of the EVALUATE project in September 2019, a number of colleagues answered our call for submissions to the proceedings. The articles you find here provide a window into the multifaceted contributions not only to the conference, but to the field of telecollaboration and virtual exchange at large. We hope you enjoy finding out about the many different ways in which our colleagues engage with this innovative pedagogical approach that combines the deep impact of intercultural dialogue and exchange with the broad reach of digital technology.
Equinox Publishing Ltd. eBooks, Jun 30, 2022
As discussed in earlier chapters, the potential of Web 2.0 tools and social networking environmen... more As discussed in earlier chapters, the potential of Web 2.0 tools and social networking environments for enhanced peer interaction is being recognised across the education sector. Many institutions are moving their blended and online learning provision from a ‘computer-as-tutor’ approach towards models which foster knowledge co-construction and sharing in socially networked learning communities. Yet, many education professionals find that they do not have the skills required to help their students to fully benefit from this paradigm shift. The TESOL-Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2012 module Tutoring with Web 2.0 tools – Designing for Social Presence provides the backdrop for this contribution. The module was designed to develop effective learner-centred online moderation skills, with a focus on the role of Social Presence (SP). Although hosted by the EVO, the programme was open to practitioners from all subject areas, and participants represented a multifaceted community in terms o...
This symposium highlighted ways CALL might serve a critical role in fostering diversity and inclu... more This symposium highlighted ways CALL might serve a critical role in fostering diversity and inclusion across languages and cultures, with papers focusing on four different but interrelated themes. The first paper considers how factors such as financial status, employment, family responsibilities and nationality can prevent language educators from attending conferences, and outlines ways CALL can enable wider participation. The second shows how digital literacies, including intercultural, ethical and critical literacy, can help language teachers and learners to build bridges between cultures. The third argues that rather than connecting people, the Internet and social media seem to be isolating them in bubbles with like-minded others, proposing virtual exchange (telecollaboration) as a way educators can use the Internet to help students connect with, learn from and collaborate with peers with very different life experiences. The fourth advocates systematic teacher and student prepara...
The last two decades have seen a growing interest in the role of the individual in the learning p... more The last two decades have seen a growing interest in the role of the individual in the learning process. We are starting to better understand the contributions that learners make to their own learning and the ways in which as educators we can build on this. This is a positive development as the majority of language learning increasingly takes place outside the language classroom. A sizeable body of general education research now exists that identifies the importance of informal learning and the ways in which this can be supported. ...
Journal of International Students
The recent expansion of virtual exchange (VE) in lieu of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing ad... more The recent expansion of virtual exchange (VE) in lieu of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing advance of technology has resulted in considerably larger numbers of VE participants for those in certain areas and contexts, yet not all would-be participants have been so fortunate. In some regions and in various contexts, challenges in VE implementation have resulted in disadvantaged populations in terms of underrepresentation and marginalization in global VE networks. To illuminate such challenges, a mixed-method approach was utilized in the current study, beginning with a global survey to elucidate reasons for underrepresentation in terms of political, governmental, institutional, administrative, technological, pedagogical, cultural and personal challenges. Thereafter, semi-structured interviews with instructors, administrators, and educational decision makers were conducted to gain further insights. Although VE is now well established as an impactful mode of studying abroad, various ...
Motivating students to contribute to learning communities is not a new problem, nor is it restric... more Motivating students to contribute to learning communities is not a new problem, nor is it restricted to online learning. However it becomes especially obvious in large online courses where student collaboration is one of the intended learning outcomes. This paper describes two models for driving student engagement in producing user-generated and user-reviewed content. It discusses the motivation for participation and gives results from two subject areas. The behaviour of students of second and third level language courses is compared to that ...
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific ... more HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et a ̀ la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.
The JALT CALL Journal, 2006
In order to respond to learners' need for more flexible speaking opportunities and to overcom... more In order to respond to learners' need for more flexible speaking opportunities and to overcome the geographical challenge of students spread over the United Kingdom and continental Western Europe, the Open University recently introduced Internet-based, real-time audio conferencing, thus making a groundbreaking move in the distance learning and teaching of languages. Since February 2002, online tutorials for language courses have been offered using Lyceum, an Internet-based audio-graphics conferencing tool developed in house. Our research is based on the first Open University course ever to deliver tutorials solely online, a level 2 German course, and this article considers some of the challenges of implementing online tuition. As a starting point, we present the pedagogical rationale underpinning the virtual learning and teaching environment. Then we examine the process of development and implementation of online tuition in terms of activity design, tutor training, and student s...
Language Learning & Technology would like to acknowledge and thank the following people who revie... more Language Learning & Technology would like to acknowledge and thank the following people who reviewed manuscripts for us during the production of volume 11 and throughout the 2007 production year. Their contribution has helped the journal to grow and continue its success.
and other research outputs Telecollaboration in multimodal environments: the impact on task desig... more and other research outputs Telecollaboration in multimodal environments: the impact on task design and learner interaction
Executive Summary This report should be read in conjunction with that for the related project con... more Executive Summary This report should be read in conjunction with that for the related project conducted by Jill Shaw. They describe aspects of a two linked research projects investigating student participation in subject communities via fOUndIt, a tool for sharing links to online resources. This report is based on, and extends, a paper [1] presented at EISTA 2009 in Florida in July 2009.
and other research outputs What’s in it for me? The stick and the carrot as tools for developing ... more and other research outputs What’s in it for me? The stick and the carrot as tools for developing academic communities
ReCALL, 1999
To respond to students' need for more speaking practice, the Open University's Centre f... more To respond to students' need for more speaking practice, the Open University's Centre for Modern Lan-guages is currently investigating the benefits of using an Internet-based, real-time audio application in distance learning/teaching. During a four-month trial period, French and ...
Online intercultural exchange: Policy, pedagogy, practice, 2016
The challenges to the adoption of telecollaborative activity also known as virtual exchange or On... more The challenges to the adoption of telecollaborative activity also known as virtual exchange or
Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) have been well documented (see, for example Guth, Helm,
& O’Dowd, 2012, MacKinnon, 2013) and the complexity of shared electronic accreditation
explained (Aguirre & Quemada, 2012). Yet, the desirability of participation is accepted
(Sweeney, 2012) and there is widespread agreement that OIE is a viable pedagogical model that
extends intercultural experiences for those involved and serves the goal of virtual mobility in
foreign language higher education. Those experienced in setting up and running OIEs are
therefore constantly seeking ways of increasing and sustaining participation in OIEs as part of
language curricula. While assessment and official accreditation remain one of the main
challenges faced by OIE practitioners, this chapter proposes a framework for recognition of
learning efforts based on the use of Open Badges for soft certification of participant engagement
and task execution. We see this approach as an important next step to bring OIE closer into the
mainstream of formal language education