Right to Learn – Language offered in Online learning
MOOCs the online learning giant is more affordable than conventional classes uncles a certification of completion is needed the courses are usually free. MOOCs is flexible, self-paced and can be taken whatever time of day works best for the learner. MOOCs allows the learner to learn from expert teachers that could be some of the train-the-trainers for the future. With internet access and remote connection, learners are able to learn the language from anywhere. edX offers free online courses with languages of English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Italian, four hours a week and with the course range from beginning to advanced. FutureLearn offers English, Spanish, Korean and less common languages as Norwegian, Dutch, and Frisian. This also offers topics for English in early childhood. Coursera offers English, Spanish, Chinese and Korean. Learners can also study Spanish vocabulary related careers and social events. There are other OfCourse and Udemy although these are learning for a price.
Distributed Learning
Distributed learning is instructional delivery of learning through a multiple-media environment method which includes a mix of Web-based instruction, streaming video, conferencing, face-to-face, distance learning, and traditional learning models. It’s a network model which the facilities are provided through the web, the resources that were previously available for a few on-site can be broadened and offered to the most exceptional wealth of information through the NET. This will enable the information to turn into knowledge and this intern into learning that facilitates lifelong learning. Distributed learning is not only high tech but supported in a high touch for students both individually and as a community of learners. Distributed learning model does not differentiate the learner by mode of attendance but based as an active learner. The reason education matters are not that education is primarily about knowledge or about skills or about competence. Education is confidence to learn, the confidence to grow the confidence to ask questions and not always have the answers, the confidence to dream your dreams and realize your aspirations not only for your own sake but for the sake and the benefit of our society as a whole. (Fitzgerald, 1999)
Monitoring in a Distributed Learning Social Work Program
In normal circumstance a student experience access to faculty, advisers, and university support system in campus culture. A distributed learning is tailored for students using mentoring for emotional support, self-care, help in managing school, family, work and time management. These are individuals from certain social, economic, cultural, gender, geographic and racial backgrounds have apparently had continuous access. Colleges and universities are increasing access for many of these students via distributed learning. This way of alternative education is defined as educational pathways that are delivered in modes other than traditional face-to-face, campus-based class attendance and also includes off-campus, completely online, or hybrid programs.
Immersive Virtual Reality, Google Expeditions and English Language Learning
The “genius hour” or “20 percent time” concept popularized and extensively used in educational environments which proves very effective that led to Google products like Google expedition. The first Virtual reality system was directly targeted at kids. Now Google makes case for Virtual Reality (VR) by reinventing the Field Trip which is accessible to all students. Google Expeditions opens up the concepts to these students by virtue of its presentation, content and, affordability. The immersive VR blocks out distraction and engages the students with interesting content. The more visual context and clarity the teacher provides it increases the comprehension of the English Language Learning skills (ELL). Immersive VE allows student access to ideas and information while reducing the cognitive load that English Language Learning student always carry and makes learning fun.
Games as Distributed Teaching, and Learning Systems
Teaching and learning have now moved through video games and virtual worlds drawing on present-day theories. How the mind works and the opportunities for new types of conversations with other people with virtual worlds, and the ability to learn from these experiences. We have the ability to simulate, role play and otherwise imagine different experiences. As humans, over time with present and past experience, we make a plan for action and problem solving for the future. The experienced gained in the past are useful for future learning and problem-solving. Games have become new understanding of experience not only with the tools, texts, media but by distributed systems of teaching and learning which will lead to deeper theories of teaching and learning in the 21st century (Gee, 2017). Games are powerful for educators as games are inherently well-designed and well mentored problem-solving experiences.
References
Craddock, I. M. (2018). Immersive Virtual Reality, Google Expeditions, and English Language Learning. In Library Technology Reports (Vol. 54, pp. 7–9). American Library Association. Retrieved from http://libproxy.library.unt.edu:2066/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tfh&AN=130595376&scope=site
GEE, E., & GEE, J. P. (2017). Games as Distributed Teaching and Learning Systems. Teachers College Record, 119(12), 1–22. Retrieved from http://libproxy.library.unt.edu:2066/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tfh&AN=127189987&scope=site
Toward a model of distributed learning: An interview with Mike Fitzgerald. (1999). Educom Review, 34(6), 40. Retrieved from http://libproxy.library.unt.edu:2066/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tfh&AN=2449112&scope=site
Jensen, D. (2017). Mentoring in a Distributed Learning Social Work Program. Journal of Social Work Education, 53(4), 637–650. https://libproxy.library.unt.edu:2147/10.1080/10437797.2017.1287026
Meredithkreisa, (2019) MOOC It Up: 5 Top Sources for Language Learning MOOCs
MOOC It Up: 5 Top Sources for Language Learning MOOCs
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