{"id":5688,"date":"2016-05-12T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2016-06-27T13:27:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T12:27:11","slug":"telecollaboration2016-in-sunny-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2016\/05\/telecollaboration2016-in-sunny-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"#Telecollaboration2016 in sunny Dublin."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcd.ie\/slscs\/telecollaboration2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Second International Conference of Telecollaboration in Higher Education<\/a> built on the success of the first conference held in Le\u00f3n, Spain in February 2014. Most of the delegates who attended in Le\u00f3n were here and so too were many new delegates, which underlines how the European INTENT group\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/uni-collaboration.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UNICollaboration<\/a> project continues to grow and become consolidated. Its achievement of critical mass is evident in the launch of the organisation UniCollaboration, which took place formally on the Friday evening at the end of Day 2 of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>After a warm welcome from Breffni O\u2019Rourke, head of the Trinity College local organising committee, Robert O\u2019Dowd introduced Celeste Kinginger to give the first Keynote Lecture of the conference on the theme \u201cTelecollaboration and student mobility for language learning\u201d. Celeste is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University and in her talk she highlighted some of the difficulties faced by language students during study abroad, particularly with establishing local social networks and in terms of their awareness of diverse language varieties and registers within the host communities. Celeste provided several examples of communication problems and misunderstandings and argued that these can be pre-empted through telecollaboration, either as preparation for physical mobility or as concurrent support while students are abroad. After the Keynote there were parallel sessions under the following themes: Assessment, Curricular Integration, Intercultural Learning Outcomes, Pedagogy and Models of Telecollaboration, Linguistic Aspects, Web 2.0, Language Learning outcomes, Interactional Aspects and Research Methodology, Student Experience.<\/p>\n<p>The day was rounded off with a choice of a Historic Walking Tour of Dublin or a Literary Pub Crawl. Those who opted for the Literary Pub Crawl were taken around the colourful and characterful pubs frequented by writers such as James Joyce and Brendan Behan and we were given fascinating insights into their stories and some of the history of Dublin by our very knowledgeable Trinity College guide. By all accounts the Historic Walking Tour was equally fascinating! Delegates who were still standing were invited to a <a href=\"https:\/\/calico.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CALICO<\/a> social event at 9pm <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/WarwickLanguage\/telecollab2016-day-2\" target=\"_blank\">at the Stag\u00a0as captured in this storify.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 2 of the conference began with a Keynote Lecture by Andreas M\u00fcller-Hartman, Professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Director of the Institute for Foreign Languages at P\u00e4dagogische Hochschule (University of Education), Heidelberg. Andreas discussed the centrality of the concept of \u2018task\u2019 to the design and research of telecollaborative learning environments, focussing particularly on the competence development of pre-service teachers who are preparing to engage their future learners in telecollaborative projects. Parallel sessions on Day 2 were under the following themes: Blended and Virtual Mobility, Models of Telecollaboration, Research Methodology, Student Experience, Interactional Aspects, Models of Telecollaboration, Teacher Training and Competences, Interactional Aspects, Intercultural Learning Outcomes and Language Learning Outcomes.<br \/>\nAs mentioned earlier, after the day\u2019s sessions the UniCollaboration organisation was formally launched at a plenary event. The aims of the organisation include consolidating and furthering the work done by the INTENT group (Integrating Telecollaborative Networks into Foreign Language Higher Education) since 2011 and prior to that, and providing a base through which educators engaged in telecollaboration, sometimes called virtual exchange,\u00a0can gain recognition for their efforts. A book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Online-Intercultural-Exchange-Routledge-Communication\/dp\/1138932876?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\" target=\"_blank\">Online Intercultural Exchange:Policy, Pedagogy, Practice <\/a>edited by Robert O&#8217;Dowd and Tim Lewis has recently been published, providing guidance to all engaging in such activities. The beautiful Caf\u00e9 en Seine was the venue for the conference dinner at the end of Day 2.<\/p>\n<p>David Little, who retired in 2008 from his role of Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Trinity College, gave the Keynote Lecture on the final day of the conference. The theme of his talk was \u201cLearner autonomy and telecollaborative language learning\u201d and he argued that successful language learning programmes are those in which \u2018learners\u2019 agency is channelled through the target language and in which \u2018learners use the target language to plan, execute, monitor and evaluate their own learning\u2019. David described some of the pedagogical procedures that can be used to create and sustain an autonomous learning environment, he explored the challenges posed for the organisation of telecollaborative language learning, and he considered implications for SLA research. Parallel sessions were under the themes of Teacher Training and Competences, Interactional Aspects, Research Methodology and Student Experience.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the themed parallel sessions on the 3 days of the conference there was a \u2018Problem Shared\u2019 strand through which presenters discussed specific, well-defined and unresolved challenges in any aspect of telecollaborative research and practice. Audience members of course were then able to share their experiences and offer advice and suggestions, and it was hoped that these sessions in particular might lead to new collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>All in all the conference was a great success &#8211; it was very well-attended and there were a lot of very interesting papers presented and talks given by expert practitioners and researchers in the field. The venue was fantastic (and even the weather was too!) and the organisers had done an excellent job all round. We look forward very much to the third conference and we wish the new UniCollaboration organisation every success into the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><p class=\"info\">Elwyn Lloyd, Coventry University.\u00a0aa0187@coventry.ac.uk<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><p class=\"note\">If you enjoyed reading this article we invite you to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/get-involved\/membership\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">join the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as an individual member, and to encourage your own organisation to join ALT as an organisational or sponsoring member<\/p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; The Second International Conference of Telecollaboration in Higher Education built on the success of the first conference held in Le\u00f3n, Spain in February 2014. 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