Your Name and Title: Hery Yanto The
Organization Name: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Co-Presenter Name(s): n/a
Country from Which You Will Present: USA
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience (such as primary school teachers, high school administrators, students, etc.): school teachers, online teachers, students
Short Session Description (one line): This presentation is about open access free course.
Full Session Description (one paragraph minimum):
New media, such as the Internet and digital technology, has affected the changed in how we learn and exchange information. One of the alterations is there are no more boundaries for communicating with people anywhere, as long as people have the skills to use the new media and sufficient access to the media. The new media has shifted the communication and interaction from local to global, and increase the democratic public sphere. In the arena of education, the new media has created many online learning environments. Numbers of these learning environments successfully connect and organize their member to become the online community of practice (OCoP). To mention some of those successful OCoP are Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), University of The People (UoP), and 1000guru. Using free online web tools, these learning environments facilitate people to learn anytime from everywhere. The OCoPs organize the connection between learners with professional volunteer educators and researchers. Moreover, these learning environments have the potential to promote participatory culture in the world-wide or global learning community.
Using the new media, I am actively participating in many online learning environments to develop a connection and partnership with other educators and researchers. I am also expanding my participation by designing online open access course using WizIQ (an online virtual classroom), Weebly (a website), and SlideBoom (a free-online slides or files sharing software) in the purpose of connecting learner from all over the world. The pilot project of this design, the English 3.0 first series, has proved that some of the learners enable to perceive the flexibility of time, space, and learning process to achieve their goals. The assistances of learning between learners and myself as a facilitator extended beyond the synchronous sessions using varieties of online tools, such as Google Talk, Skype, IM, and email. Learners who joined the class were distributed across the continent including India, China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Peru, Saudi Arabia, The Philippines, Turkey, and Vietnam.
In the Summer 2012, I created a new course called Basic English Grammar. The same as the predecessor, this course was primarily intended to promote open-access online learning to the large audiences, and to raise awareness about the real-world universal problems and cross cultural understanding. For that reason, although the course is entitled Basic English Grammar http://basicenglishgrammar.weebly.com/), the topics included in the synchronous sessions (for examples: Social Networking and Language, Authentic & Practical English, and English as an International Language) delivered through the WizIQ are advanced into the cross-cultural understanding. Through these topics, learners were lead to aware that English is one of the international languages mediated communication and it supposes to be used to strengthen the international relationship.
There are three purposes of this presentation. First, I would like to show the example project of using technology to deliver learning and connect audiences from different continents. Second, I would like to show how learners in the class discussion see themselves as a member of the global community and the importance of learning English as an International or Foreing Language Third, I would like to discuss my idea about the prospective of using the online connection and OCoP to educate learners, especially young adults and professionals, to be responsive to the universal real-world phenomenon, such as globalization, mobilization, equality, and the internalization.
Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: http://basicenglishgrammar.weebly.com/
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