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TESL 4340 – CyberSpace

Dr. Sunny Jeong Email: spjeong@uic.edu.hkWeb: http://uic.edu.hk/~spjeong

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Introductory Stuff Have Fun! Please turn

off your phones!

DODO interact with me!

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Outline Understand the term Cyberspace

Know how it can affect and benefit our lives

how language learning have developed in cyberspace

Virtual Learning Environment E-learning System Mobile Classroom

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What is Cyberspace? 'Cyberspace' is a term coined by

William Gibson, author of 'Neuromancer'

It is the imaginary space we pass through when 'surfing' the Internet

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What is Cyberspace? “the global domain of electro-

magnetics accessed through electronic technology and exploited through the modulation of electromagnetic energy to achieve a wide range of communication and control system capabilities”

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Cyberspace Today Gibson's term has now become a reality,

thanks to improvements in:

Communication Networks (faster Internet)

Hardware (faster, bigger storage) Software (allows for complex applications)

We are always pushing the boundaries of what we can achieve with the technology available

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Affecting Society Thomas L. Friedman outlines the affect

Cyberspace (and what it offers) in his book 'The World is Flat'

He describes how it affects us as individuals, but more importantly how it has changed the face of businesses worldwide

Of course, Educational area also has been affected by this change.

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Cyberspace and E-learning E-learning is defined as instruction delivered

on a computer via internet or CD-ROM (Clark & Mayer, 2007).

E learning commonly refers to training delivered electronically in an organizational setting while Online Learning is used to differentiate courses delivered via the internet in educational settings

According to a Gartner report, e-learning market has been increasing by 15% every year

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Cyberspace and E-learning E-learning allows you have a class

anywhere you are Even with your mobile phone, you can

participate in a cyber classroom Thousands of web sites and applications

for e-learning

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E-learning web sites Edu blog (http://edublogs.org) - Based on

blog platform Elgg (http://elgg.org ) – using social network Wikispace (http://wikispaces.com ) – based on

wikipidia Digication (http;//digication.com) – offering

online classroom to users Chinesepot (http://chinespod.com ) –

specialized in Chinese learning Nuvvo(http://nuvvo.com ) – bidding online educational contents

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Edublogs and Digication

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Drawbacks of E-learning The quality of the electronic-based

training, as in every form of training, is in its content and its delivery.

E-learning can suffer from many of the same pitfalls as classroom training, such as boring slides, monotonous speech, and little opportunity for interaction.

The beauty of e-learning, however, is that new software allows the creation of very effective learning environments that can engulf you in the material.(Lee Ann Obringer )

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Summary We defined the term 'Cyberspace‘

Studied what was required to turn Cyberspace theory into a reality

E-learning and cyberspace

We explored E-learning websites and found out E-learning’s pitfalls