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Using French Online: A Summer Workshop for Teachers

French Online is a media-based, highly interactive web-based Elementary
course in development since 1998 at Carnegie Mellon University, since 2005
in the context of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI). OLI is a William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation-funded project to make high-quality on-line courses
available for classroom use and free for independent learners on the
Internet.
 
French Online can be used  as a textbook substitute in any context, but is
especially appropriate for settings in which students have limited time for
classroom participation. Instructors using French Online in a class setting
have testing and class management tools available that are absent from the
Open version.
 
If you are interested in learning to use French Online we invite you to
apply to participate in the OLI Faculty workshop that will be held July 7-8,
2008.
 
  During the workshop, we will:
 
* Discuss cognitive principles of effective online education.
* Practice using the OLI online course delivery system.
* Discuss how to participate in our ongoing educational research projects.
* Explore a variety of ways to use the online course to effectively support
teaching. 
* Discuss ways to customize the material for specific target groups.
* Identify additional material or specific lessons to develop.
* Prepare interested faculty for participation in our ongoing evaluation
studies and our community of research and use.
 
  The workshop is free and a limited number of travel stipends are
available.
 
 
To explore the Open and Free version of French Online, please visit:
  https://oli.web.cmu.edu/jcourse/webui/free.do
        
To learn more about the faculty summer workshop and to submit your
application please visit: _http://www.cmu.edu/oli/summer_workshop/

-- 
Christopher M. Jones, PhD.
Teaching Professor of French
Director, Modern Language Resource Center
Carnegie Mellon University - BH 160
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-5065
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