E-Learning: Approaches to Written Language Acquisition - Development and evaluation of a virtual course on the topic: ‘Approaches to Written Language Acquisition’

Third party funded individual grant


Start date : 01.03.2015

End date : 31.03.2020


Project details

Scientific Abstract

The development of virtual courses over the last few years has engendered a form of teaching which gives us the opportunity to broaden study opportunities and offer students work based on their individual learning.

The goal of this project is to develop a virtual course on the topic  ‘Approaches to Written Language Acquisition’ on the studon (ILIAS) learning platform. Various pedagogical media considerations have been taken into account, so that there is added value to the online content. Care has been taken to ensure that elements are used which stimulate learning as well as providing social communication – in the form of animations or forums. An important component is the fact that students can receive feedback during the online seminar. This takes place through self-assessment tasks at the end of every teaching module and by means of the competent support of e-tutors.

The course content includes, alongside the teaching of basic knowledge, historic and current concepts of written language acquisition. It is important that students acquaint themselves with the various accessible methods and possibilities of written language acquisition in order to be able to use these later in their own teaching. Furthermore, the topic of ‘Concepts’ allows the teaching of various research traditions, since various aspects of didactics of written language acquisition are found here.

The online seminar enables flexible learning in terms of time and place and contributes to an increase in the students’ media competence.

A course demonstration will be available at: www.vhb.org

Project schedule

March 2015–February 2016: Phase 1: Course development

March 2016–February 2017: Phase 2: Interim evaluation and revision

From March 2018: Phase 3: Final evaluation

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