Transcript AU Workplace English - Athabasca University

AU Workplace English
wpeau.ca
Dr. Mohamed Ally
Colin Elliott
Tracey Woodburn
New Generations of Students
 Online presence
 Now generation
 @ generation
 Virtual generation
 Social networking
 Games
 Digital experts
 Adapt to technology quickly
 Technology is second nature
Current Generation of Students
Online presence
Social networking
Games
Technology literate
 Mobile cellular has been the most rapidly
adopted technology in history. Today it is the
most popular and widespread personal
technology on the planet, with an estimated 4.6
billion subscriptions globally by the end of 2009.
 Mobile broadband subscriptions overtook fixed
broadband subscribers in 2008, highlighting the
huge potential for the mobile Internet.
Shift to Mobility
E-learning to M-learning
E-Commerce to M-commerce
E-government to M-government
E-collaboration to M-collaboration
E-library to M-library
E-health to M-health
Emerging Technologies in Learning
Print
E-learning
Mobile Learning
(M-learning)
The Ultimate School in the 21st Century
(Albert Browne, Verizon Foundation, U.S.A.)
Use of digital media
Games as a learning strategy
Mobile devices
Online courses
Learning Materials Development
Break content into small chunks
Design as learning objects
Store in repositories for easy access
Metatagged, retrieved, and reused
Design Principles
 Chunk the information to prevent information
overload
 Use advance organizers to facilitate the
processing of details
 Dual-coding hypothesis: present information in
visual and textual/verbal
 Use concept and information maps
 Design for specific context
What is WPE? -Content
 86 Grammar lessons with 155 interactive
exercises
Including:
Vocabulary from 8 different workplace
situations:
Health and Wellness
Utilities-Oil/Gas/Mining
Retail and Sales
Hospitality and Tourism
Trades and Labour
Food Services and Restaurants
Administration and Clerical
Banking and Personal Finance
5 audio exercises and 1 video exercise
WPEAU- Statistics
 90% of students thought that mobile learning
provided them with the opportunity to learn
anytime, anywhere.
 69% of students thought mobile technology
increased the quality of their learning experience
Content: AUESLAUWPE
 AU Mobile ESL
AU Workplace English
Question Format
There are 4 types of interactive questions:
True/False Ex. 1.1
Multiple Choice Ex. 2.1
Matching Ex. 9.2
Sequencing Ex. 13.1
Question format
 True/False
Ex. 1.1
 Multiple Choice
Ex. 2.1
Question format
 Matching
Ex. 9.2
 Sequencing
Ex. 13.1
Audio
 Five styles of interactive audio exercises
1) Audio Vocabulary list (Health and Wellness
Vocabulary)
2) Audio dialogue followed by text questions (Ex.
20.2)
3) Multiple Choice - audio sentence then choose
text answer (Ex. 28.1)
4) Multiple Choice - read text then choose audio
answer (Ex. 38.3)
5) Audio lesson (Lesson 51)
Health and Wellness
Audio Vocabulary List
Ex. 20.2 Audio dialogue text questions
Ex. 28.1 Audio questions text answers
Video
 Lesson 10 Ex. 9.3
A short scene between a medic and an injured worker
followed by text questions (01:53)
Technology
Designed for advanced devices
MP4, MP3
Auto-detect
Re-sizes for device
Future Directions
More multimedia
More devices
Dynamic pages
apps