The LANCELOT ProjectLANguage Learning With CErtified Live Online Teachers On June 15, 2005 the
European Commission granted approval for the development project LANCELOT
in the framework of LEONARDO DA VINCI, Language Competence II. A total
of 23 partners in 8 European countries participated in a 2-year development
project starting September 2005. Two years later, in September 2007, the project was successfully completed and the outcomes have been presented at the EUROCALL conference in Irleand. This homepage has been set up to provide a summary of the project results on a single website. Please note that all of the links on this page lead to the InLearn, a Learning Management System, where you will need to register. All content is available under the Creative Commons Licensing Agreement. Impressions of LANCELOT language learning (4min) For a high resolution version (windows users only, 8Mbyte) click here For a high resolution flash version, click here (48 Mbyte, download time required)
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Gary Motteram, University of Manchester Welcome addressClick on play and enable PC sound, a Flash player needs to be installed. To download the Flash player please click here.(Transcript of the recording)
Gary Motteram: These two years on producing a set of materials
that are enabling people to learn how to teach what is termed in this
project 'live online'. In a sense it is an extension of other kind of
online learning activities that have been going on for a long time and
obviously people have experimented with these kind of tools in the past
then increasingly with the development of broadband and other kind of
technologies. Its beginning to become easy to do this kind of thing, it
certainly has become easier as you get the hang of it, you begin to sort
of take the risk of doing this kind of live session at a conference like
this. There are a number of people who are part of this presentation and who are in the audience ... so there are a number of people who are in the audience that will introduce themselves as we get along. This is part of a larger project, the people on the first slide here represent a larger group of people who come from a number of organisations and like in all European project we have a leaflet here if anybody is interested and we have got a URL in the end that is actually the URL at the bottom of the screen as well, so that if people want to visit the site and learn about the project they can do. ..more...
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Gary Motteram
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Prof. Dr. Christian Swertz of the University of Vienna, Media-Pedagogy Educational metadata as a guideline in online teaching and learning materialClick on play and enable PC sound, a Flash player needs to be installed. To download the Flash player please click here.(Transcript of the recording)
Christian Swertz: Thank you very much again for your interest in
our project LANCELOT. Let me introduce myself, I am Professor for Media-Education
at the University of Vienna and I had the honor to coordinate this project.
In my talk I will discuss the
usage of educational data as meta data live online teaching and learning
and how we
used the meta data vocabulary called webdidactics in our project.
Well in my talk I will consider four aspects ....
So in the first section I will expose heterogeneity as a major problem for online teaching and learning and we distinguished three types of heterogeneity. The first type heterogeneity is the heterogeneity of media. We find that heterogeneity with people in science, at this point algorithms have to be considered as media that is every communication tool and every featured software that you are using for online communication has to be regarded as a statistic media and thus as there are lots of online communication tools available we had to consider a wide range of media. ...more...
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Prof Dr. Christian Swertz
Hanna Schultz
Ute Fussenberger
Sabine Werther (picture missing) Kathi Toifl (picture missing) Carmen Heidenwolf
Jenny Berger
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Serpil Sahin Gönül, phD Intercultural Aspects in Live Online Language Training - Coping with new dividesClick on play and enable PC sound, a Flash player needs to be installed. To download the Flash player please click here.Presentation INTERCULTURAL ASPECTS IN LIVE ONLINE LANGUAGE TRAINING.ppt INTERCULTURAL ASPECTS IN LIVE ONLINE LANGUAGE TRAINING.doc (Transcript of the recording) Serpil Sahin Gönül: I am going to present the Intercultural Aspect Strand here of the LANCELOT project...Ja, ok, I am going to present the Intercultural Communicative Competence Strand of LANCELOT project. First of all I would like to start with the need for that strand in this LANCELOT project, the need for the ICC, shortly we use ICC as a term, it stands for Intercultural Communicative Competence, I am going to explain why we use this term in a minute, so, the need for the ICC strand in the project is, firstly we can say the latest tendency in language teaching it is called the intercultural approach and this is a further development of the communicative approach and it is since the mid 1980ies, there is a tendency to talk about the all linguistic and intercultural aspect in language teaching and take into account the intercultural aspect, not cultural, so, that's why it was import and secondly people of different cultures are meeting in the online environment together....more...
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Serpil Sahin Gönül, phD
Asli Oguz Salcan
Baris Cansevgisi
Hande Arli
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Heike Philp, CEO of let's talk online The Technological Strand of the LANCELOT courseClick on play and enable PC sound, a Flash player needs to be installed. To download the Flash player please click here.Presentation TECHNOLOGICAL_STRAND.ppt (Transcript of the recording) Heike Philp: Just give a hello to the audience, Gary, could you give me an ok, whether my voice is coming in alright, we've got quite a crowd here with people from Germany, from America, from Australia, present is Sweden and Saudi Arabia, hello to everybody. I have the pleasure of the next 10min to talk you through the tools that have been deployed in LANCELOT. But before I start I would like to give a big round of applause to Robin Good. Robin Good has been instrumental in producing the material in the InLearn for our LANCELOT course. …. Let me briefly tell you about Robin who initially was part of the LANCELOT project but out of private reasons then decided to restrict himself to producing the material in the InLearn which he has done fabulously. ... more ....
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Heike Philp
Robin Good
Michael A. Tighe
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Gary Motteram, University of Manchester The Methodological Strand of the LANCELOT courseClick on play and enable PC sound, a Flash player needs to be installed. To download the Flash player please click here.(Transcript of the recording) Gary Motteram: ..to bring up and to say just a few brief words, not to kind of re-iterate what people have been saying, but basically we have had presentations to do with issues to do with the 'Technology strand' and we called them strands, the 'Intercultural strand' and then what we called the 'Teacher training strand' or the 'Methodology strand'. So, as well as having input about particular aspects of technology, particular issues in intercultural studies, we also got information in there about methodology. One of the things we had to consider with the methodology, as I said, the people involved in this course were fundamentally people who were involved already language teachers themselves. So we did not want to start to trying to get them to learn things that they already knew, so we took topics and got them to explore it bearing in mind issues they might find in the live online environment. ... more.... |
Gary Motteram, phD
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Daniela Arghir, LANCELOT pilot test trainee A Live Online language lesson demonstrationClick on play and enable PC sound, a Flash player needs to be installed. To download the Flash player please click here.Daniela Arghir, Rumanian and English teacher, has started teaching live online following the LANCELOT pilot test. One of her students is A1 and another student is progressing towards C1. This recording outlines a language lesson. There is no transcript for the 10min lesson demonstration recording. |
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Christel Schneider, ICC - The European Language Network Accreditation and Certification of the LANCELOT CourseClick on play and enable PC sound, a Flash player needs to be installed. To download the Flash player please click here. |
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Project Outcomes1) A teacher manual for the live online language teacher, detailing practical guidelines. These are detailed in three strands. This manual is available in English at the following website address LANCELOT Courses English and in German at LANCELOT Kurse German Version.
For a download of the complete teacher_manual for trainers of language teachers click here....
2) A trainer manual or the trainers of live online language teachers, detailing a train-the-trainer programme, providing guidelines on how to acquire skills necessary to teach languages in virtual classrooms (pedagogy/ methodology/ technology) For a download of the complete Trainer manual for trainers of language teachers, click here....
For a complete download of all of the German material, click here. For a complete download of all of the English material, click here. 3) A certificate, documenting the qualification acquired through the train-the-trainer programme. The train-the-trainer programme is listed as follows ...
Certification is achieved if a 'Pass' or a 'Good Pass' has been accomplished of the following synchronous and asynchronous components of the assessment.
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LANCELOT Courses English Version
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Further information and acknowledgementEvaluation by Brigitte Holm Sørensen, Karin Tweddell Levinsen and Bente Meyer, Danish School of Education - University of Aarhus May we express our gratitude to our Danish partners, who took over the work package of evaluation. Their tasks included...
For the purpose of evaluating the project a SWOT analysis was conducted by all of the project partners during the Interim Meeting in Manchester. For the purpose of evaluating the course, they interviewed language trainers and analysed feedback provided by participants of both Action Research (October 2006 - December 2006) and the Pilot Test (March 2007-May 2007). These reports provided valuable input to increase effectiveness and better communication in the project team and to help improve the final outcomes, the LANCELOT course. Evaluation of the Project Internal evaluation report – Lancelot project, November 2006 It is the aim of this report to assess and evaluate the internal communication and management of the Lancelot project during the first year of the project’s life (October 2005- October 2006). The report focuses on these issues through the perspective of a SWOT analysis carried out by the project members at the interim meeting in Manchester October 6-8. The SWOT analysis was chosen for its ability to identify problem areas within an organisation or group as well as focusing on and facilitating future actions and strategies. The report contains a summary of the issues raised by the SWOT as well as a suggestion for future actions. Evaluation of the LANCELOT course Analysis of qualitative interviews with online language teachers, June 2006 At the kick-off meeting in Vienna October 2005 it was agreed that partners would conduct a limited number of interviews to make an initial survey of issues that would be relevant for the production of the manual & guide. It was therefore the objective of the interviews to produce knowledge about the basis for live online language teaching, i.e
The Danish team conducted 4 semi-structured interviews with teachers. The interviews were made on the basis of an interview guide discussed by all partners in December 2005. To access the report, click on the link in the title or click here. Analysis of qualitative interviews with Action Research Trainees, February 2007 Interviews with trainees were conducted after the Action Research period (November-December 2006), when LBs 1-4 were tested on trainees. The aim of the interviews was to understand how teachers learn to teach and to relate to the online environment through the specific context of the Lancelot live online course. The focus of the interviews was on the one hand the ability of the course to support this learning process and on the other hand the correction and adjustment of the syllabus for the spring pilot testing phase (beginning March 2007). To access the report, click on the link in the title or click here. LANCELOT pilot report, June 2007 The aim of the Lancelot pilot evaluation process was to understand how teachers learn to teach and to relate to the online environment through the specific context of the Lancelot live online course. Following the Action Research in the autumn of 2006 the LANCELOT live online language course was revised for the piloting in the spring of 2007. A second aim of the pilot evaluation has therefore been to assess the revision of the course following the Action Research. To access the report, click on the link in the title or click here. |
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Brigitte Holm Sørensen
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LANCELOT Pilot Test The pilot project conducted with two groups of 24 language teachers each were conducted by the following trainers (pm group)
(am group)
A total of 22 language teachers completed the course. Pilot Test Trainees LANCELOT certified Live Online language teachers are as follows: (am group) Sabine Glas-Peters, Neslihan Baltacioglu, Lukáš Palecek, Tatjana Sacherer, Helena Wiklund, Brigitte Falkner, Ana Lorenzon, Gamze Guven, Tony Duffy, Wendy Stenhouse and Neil McMahon (pm group) Anne McKee, Daniela Aghir, Alliki Luk, Susanne Hartmann, Ivana Tsvetkov, Dhafir Kasassbeh, Mohammed Amer, Veronica Olguin Partida, Sabrina Ploch, Levent Süngün and Jeanne C. Baer Michael A. Tighe, head of U.S. English Services, advised the LANCELOT program in his capacities as:
In addition to serving in these functions, U.S. English Services provided most of the imagery used in the LANCELOT program under the creative commons agreement.
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How often and whom did the trainees meet to conduct the peer-to-peer activities? This drawing was created 5 weeks into the 12 weeks course.
Michael A. Tighe
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Project ConsortiumActive Partners
Cooperating Partners
Promoting Partner
Partner Change May we express our appreciation to Marion Meurant of Ceran Lingua, a renown French language School in France, for her engagement during the slow and challenging beginnings of the project. We may also express our gratitude to Robin Good, Masternewmedia, who commenced an active partnership yet had to reduce the amount of time spent on the project and instead focused on the production of the technological learning units. With great appreciation we welcomed International House and ICC - The European Language Network, who joined the LANCELOT project last year in June 2006. |
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Acknowledgement Dr. Ilona Hündgen, e-learning consultant and co-initiator of the LANCELOT project
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Acknowledgement Barbara de Angelis, Italian teachers for the design of our little mascot called 'Camelot'
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Camelot
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Acknowledgement Moira Hunter, MEd ELT, e-learning consultant and live online language trainer May we express our gratitude to Moira Hunter who was 'a woman of the first hour' laying the very foundation for the LANCELOT project by assisting during project proposal and for her valuable input in the first year of the project. Having graduated at the University of Manchester, it was Moira who suggested to contact Manchester with our request for project partnership. Based on her extensive experience as an English teacher using virtual classroom technology, Moira provided invaluable information to the project team. We were very sorry to hear about her decision to leave the project team and thank her very much for the solid ground work which provided valuable direction to the whole team.
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Job Portal www.lancelotschool.com
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Valorisation Activities (to be completed)
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Contact Information Prof. Christian Swertz at the University of Vienna, christian [at] swertz.de, Vienna, Austria, Tel Gary Motteram, University of Manchester, gary.motteram [at] manchester.ac.uk, Manchester, UK Tel Serpil Sahin Gönül, University of Ankara, serpilsahingonul [at] gmail.com, Ankara, Turkey, Tel Christel Schneider, ICC
- The European Language Network, Berner Heerweg 183, 22159 Hamburg,
Germany, Tel +49 40-428 853 233, Fax +49 40 428 853 237, Mobile +49 172
9333 042christel.schneider [at] icc-languages.eu, www.icc-languages.eu Heike Philp, LANCELOT School GmbH, St.-Ulrich-Str. 2, 79189 Bad Krozingen, Germany,Tel +49-7633 923 1056, Fax +49-7633-9231120, Mobile +49-179-4772395,heike.philp [at] lancelotschool.com, www.lancelotschool.com
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