Selecting and Adapting Materials for Online Language Learning and Teaching

Designed for in-service online language teachers, this course, offered in Fall 2019, focuses on selecting and adapting materials for online language learning and teaching. Successful completion of this course will earn a digital badge conferred by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (University of Hawai‘i). Badge earners will be eligible to earn a Continuing Education Unit (CEU) towards maintaining their professional qualifications.

Registration is FREE.

LAST DAY TO REGISTER for access to the live webinar series is OCTOBER 6, 2019. Please note that a screencast of these webinar sessions will be recorded and made available as an open educational resource in TED-Ed.

Webinar Dates

Oct 8 | Oct 15 | Oct 22 | Oct 29 | Nov 5*

Tuesdays, 10:00 am-noon (Hawaii Standard Time), 1:00-3:00 pm (Pacific Daylight Time), 2:00-4:00 pm (Mountain Daylight Time), 3:00-5:00 pm (Central Daylight Time), 4:00-6:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)

* The last session (November 5) will take place after Daylight Savings Time ends (November 3). We will keep all mainland times the same as listed above and just shift Hawaii time to 11:00 am-1:00 pm.

Session Topics

OCTOBER 8

Session 1: Working with Open Educational Resources (OERs) 

Session 2: Adapting and scaffolding online materials for different proficiency levels 

OCTOBER 15

Session 3: Selecting and adapting online materials for the interpretive mode of communication

Session 4: Selecting and adapting online materials for the interpersonal mode of communication

OCTOBER 22

Session 5: Selecting and adapting online materials for the presentational mode of communication

Session 6: Selecting and adapting online materials for the teaching of culture

OCTOBER 29

Session 7: Helping learners select and adapt online materials to enable self-directed learning

Session 8: Copyrights and Creative Commons licensing

NOVEMBER 5 *

Session 9 (longer, 75 min.): Best practices in selecting and adapting materials for online language learning and teaching (panel)

Session 10 (shorter, 30 min.): Summary review by the series facilitator as discussant

Products

Successful completion of this course will earn a digital badge conferred by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (University of Hawai‘i). Badge earners from will be eligible to earn a Continuing Education Unit (CEU) towards maintaining their professional qualifications. To earn the badge, registrants must meet the badge criteria.

For more information or to register for the online course, visit https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/events/view/123/