Personal and shared spaces of language learning


Openness was also a focal theme of the Eurocall CMC & Teacher Education SIGs Annual Workshop, held this year in Bologna, Italy. As part of the workshop, the teacher training approach of the SpeakApps project was presented and discussed. The presentation, along with others, resulted in a fruitful discussion that yielded many profound questions such as:

  • Why is openness important in language education?
  • What are the central forces of change behind the changing paradigm?
  • What is the learner’s role in the production of open educational resources?
  • What makes educational resources sharable, reusable and re-sharable?

However, after many attempts to find answers to these questions, they still remain open.

The SpeakApps project aims at creating a collective of teachers, learners, researchers and other stakeholders, and in doing so, providing a space in which to share both conceptual and material artefacts with a special focus on spoken skills. Stay tuned and be ready to join the discussion.