Trayectorias: A New Model for Online Task-Based Learning
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| Title: | Trayectorias: A New Model for Online Task-Based Learning |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Ros i Sole, Cristina, Mardomingo, Raquel |
| Source: | ReCALL. May 2004 16(1):145-157. |
| Availability: | Cambridge University Press. 100 Brook Hill Drive, West Nyack, NY 10994-2133. Tel: 800-872-7423; Tel: 845-353-7500; Fax: 845-353-4141; e-mail: subscriptions_newyork@cambridge.org; Web site: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=REC |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 13 |
| Publication Date: | 2004 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Constructivism (Learning), Open Universities, Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Second Language Learning, Reading Processes, Educational Technology, Internet, Models, Learner Controlled Instruction, Literacy, Problem Solving, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing Exercises, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction, College Students, Problem Based Learning |
| Geographic Terms: | United Kingdom |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0958344004001119 |
| ISSN: | 0958-3440 |
| Abstract: | This paper discusses a framework for designing online tasks that capitalizes on the possibilities that the Internet and the Web offer for language learning. To present such a framework, we draw from constructivist theories (Brooks and Brooks, 1993) and their application to educational technology (Newby, Stepich, Lehman and Russell, 1996; Jonassen, Mayes and McAleese, 1993); second language learning and learning autonomy (Benson and Voller, 1997); and distance education (Race, 1989; White, 1999). On the one hand our model balances the requirements of the need for control and learning autonomy by the independent language learner; and on the other, the possibilities that online task-based learning offer for new reading processes by taking into account new literacy models (Schetzer and Warschauer, 2000), and the effect that the new media have on students' knowledge construction and understanding of texts. We explain how this model works in the design of reading tasks within the specific distance learning context of the Open University, UK. Trayectorias is a tool that consists of an open problem-solving Web-quest and provides students with "scaffolding" that guides their navigation around the Web whilst modelling learning approaches and new learning paradigms triggered by the medium. We then discuss a small-scale trial with a cohort of students (n = 23). This trial had a double purpose: (a) to evaluate to what extent the writing task fulfilled the investigators' intentions; and (b) to obtain some information about the students' perceptions of the task. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2009 |
| Accession Number: | EJ852503 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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