Collaborative Editing Online: Available Tools
It is not only wikis and blogs that you can use collaboratively online. Now it is possible to create graphs and charts together, as well as regular text documents and…
Web 2.0 in Education: Affordances
NB! Web 2.0 properties are moulded by user perceptions. The notion of the learner-context interface (Language Learning in Distance Education by Cynthia White, p 86, etc CLTL) places the individual learner’s…
Collaborative Learning Online: Principles and Guidelines
Quintessentially, in order for a collaborative task to succeed it is necessary to provide for the following: 1. The students in a group must perceive that they “sink or swim”…
Sample Collaborative Learning Tasks & Activities: Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning
Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning The goal of this activity is to generate discussion among student groups about a specific topic or content area. Faculty conducts a brief (10-15 minutes) lecture…
A Guide to EFL/ESL Exams and Levels
This is a table that provides a compact comparative overview of such EFL/ESL exams as FCE, CAE, CPE, IELTS & TOEFL.
Types of Groups and Groupwork
GROUPWORK Various names have been given to this form of teaching, and there are some distinctions among these: cooperative learning, collaborative learning, collective learning, learning communities, peer teaching, peer learning,…
Designing Multiple Choice Tests (validity, reliability, etc)
Here is a nice article on designing multiple choice tests
Setting up a Wiki for your Class
There are several websites that allow you to set up a wiki for your class quickly and easily, the most popular ones are PB Wiki Wetpaint Wikispaces