Hauptseminar Research in Distance Learning Forming a Cyberspace Community with Arab and Jewish Students from Israel

This class will be a highly collaborative class which will bring together diverse groups of students from the Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv, Israel, the Al-Qasemi College of Education in Baqa, Israel, and from the University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany to form an academic cyberspace community. All classes will start regularly at the beginning of the winter term; the Kassel class will start on October 23rd with introductory face to face meetings. Throughout the intense time of online cooperation between the three campuses in November and December 2013 stable groups of 6 will be formed, with two students from Baqa, two students from Tel Aviv and two students from Kassel. Specific online environments will be created to allow the groups productive and creative work on the topic -Research in Distance Learning” in online settings. The highlight of the online cooperation will be a video conference of all three campuses which will be held on December 12th from 4.15pm till 5.45pm. The basic principle of the class will be learning by doing. This means that as described in the LMR plus Model (Finkbeiner, 2004) you will be both learners, moderators and researchers alike. In this class you will learn about distance learning and about research in DL both theoretically by reading and critically discussing studies and methods and by practically experiencing research in distance learning yourselves. You will also consider how to implement this into the classroom. The focus will be on qualitative methods, particularly on interviews and you will apply what you have learned about research in your own groups by interviewing each other in -Elluminate”. The intriguing aspect of this class is that both Arab and Jewish students will collaborate with you and this way, you will gain insight into worlds that so far might not have been known to you. Next to the academic gain there is a lot in it for each single participant: the great chance of strong friendship and trust building. to be provided in class Bemerkung PLEASE, save the dates! - Our class will start at the beginning of the winter term 2013/2014 on October 23rd - an intense phase of face to face and self access learning group online sessions will follow between November 6th and December 12th. A final video conference of all three campuses will be held on December 12th from 4.15pm till 5.45pm. Voraussetzungen - Successful participation in -Introduction into Foreign Language Teaching Methodology- - Successful participation in all other introductory courses and -Proseminare- for all candidates Lerninhalte This is a blended learning class with synchronous and asynchronous online units and face to face units. You will learn about research in distance learning theoretically and practically by - creating wikis - interviewing each other via -elluminate- - writing blog and forum entries - involving in a video conference etc. Zielgruppe Alle Studierende LA, BA, MA, WiPäd FB 02 Institut für Anglistik / Amerikanistik - Successful participation in -Introduction into Foreign Language Teaching Methodology- - Successful participation in all other introductory courses and -Proseminare- for all candidates Lerninhalte This is a blended learning class with synchronous and asynchronous online units and face to face units. You will learn about research in distance learning theoretically and practically by - creating wikis - interviewing each other via -elluminate- - writing blog and forum entries - involving in a video conference etc. Uni Kassel WiSe 2013/14 Wirtschaftspädagogik Prof. Dr. Finkbeiner Claudia