SpeakApps: Open Educational Resources for online speaking practice in a second language

Christine Appel

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Project Overview

Programme : Lifelong Learning Programme

Sub-programme : KA2 LANGUAGES 2010; Accompanying Measures 2012

Project title : SpeakApps: Production and interaction in a foreign language

through online ICT tools

Duration: Jan 2011 – Dec 2012 ; Nov 2013 – Oct 2014

Partners:

SpeakApps 2, new targets

• Project languages: English, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Irish and Polish

• Sectors: Higher Education, VET, Adult Education• French, German, Spanish, Romani, & Croatian• Secondary education • Telecollaboration

Rationale : Distance education

Rationale:f2f

Telecollaboration / Informal Learning

Oral ProductionOral Production Speaking interactionSpeaking interaction

Project goals

Open Education Resources / Tandem Editor

Tandem English/Spanish MOOC

• Development of Oral Production and Speaking Interaction

• Tasks for NS-NNS synchronous communication• SpeakApps Platform• Spring / Fall

With support of the Agaur

Obervations

- Stronger feeling of community- Higher student motivation- Students have a closer relationship to classmates:

friendship- Drop-out levels decrease- Fewer plagiarism problems- Other subjectsLaw, Arts & Humanities, Communication

Studies, etc

- Blended learning: shift of classroom/homework activities

Install & contribute

Full use of platform

Software as a Service

Thank you!

mappel@uoc.edu

speakapps@uoc.edu

www.speakapps.eu