Simeon,

I have been involved in distance learning for several years now - as a student, a technology assistant, and as a teaching fellow. I have recently had the unique opportunity to present research at two different conferences that I was unable to attend in person via telecommunications. I would be very interested in discussing your work. Note, however, that I do not function as an administrator at my institution so it would depend on the level of involvement you are looking for as to what I could commit. 

Alex 

Professor Simeon Flowers,

In our research group we have been engaged in applying ICT to HE, including online courses development and teaching. I would like to analyze a possible collaboration, maybe application o ICT in teaching ICT for Education?

I would be interested in participate . I have some knowledge about e-learning. It will include any type of proposal? 

Thank you all for showing interest. I will reply one at a time.

I should also note that the subjects I have access to for any immediate research are all first or second year undergraduates from a variety of majors. The logistics of a study of telecollaborative learning will also have to take into account differences to our respective countries' university systems, including time constraints of differing time zones and differing school year starting and ending times and breaks. 

Alexzandria,

I am an English teacher first and foremost here in Japan, and so the research I would like to do will be classroom pedagogy based. My administrative role is very limited, but I have have plenty of room to experiment with pedagogy within my own classes. I would like to begin with some smaller classroom based telecollaborative projects which I believe will be able to contribute to this field.

One simple idea we might be able to try, is to connect two classrooms using a Google+ community. The details of what our two classes would do depends on their levels and interests. I will be teaching both fist year and second year university students next year. And I will be teaching students from a variety of majors. Some of the groups will have very low English ability, and some very high. So I have quite a bit of flexibility in trying to match levels.

Can you tell me a bit about your students, and what kind of ideas you have for such an exchange?

Dr. Rey Segundo Guerrero-Proenza,

Thank you very much for your response and interest in this project. As I often teach English as part of required curriculum for students of other majors, there is potential for a variety of subject based collaborations which could take place. However, my students at this point are still undergraduates. It sounds like the work you have in mind would be more of working with graduate level researchers. 

I am not sure what I can contribute to your work, but if there is a chance that your graduate students would like to be involved with setting up such research projects and would like to use my undergraduate students as subjects for their research into ITC for Education, then there might be potential here for some interesting telecollaboration.

Please let me know more about your ideas, and how I might best be able to assist you and your students in their research. 

Dear Karen Melissa Munoz,

At this point my research is still fairly independent, and so I do not need to write a proposal for conducting classroom based research. I am planning on using some of the myriad of free internet resources out there, and so I am not expecting to need any additional research funding. Any proposals we might have would be more for each other as fellow collaborators so that we can understand each others's mutual goals and ideas. I don't thing we need anything formal just yet, but if you have ideas you would like to try we can discuss them here, or you can send me a private message and we can talk further if you prefer. 

If you read some of the previous work I attached at the head of this thread, you will see the kinds of things I have already done in the past. Any initial telecollaborative work would be extensions of that. 

An example of something we might try would be to use social media to connect two classrooms in a kind of collaborative pen pal exchange where we would attempt to quantify student's changes in intercultural sensitivity and motivation as a result of the exchange. I would also be interested in qualitative research in such a study, but I must admit that do not yet have much experience with qualitative analysis yet. 

Are you in a position to provide a class of first or second year undergraduates as subjects for such a study? 

http://ict.unescobkk.org/resources/telecollaboration/

Put simply, telecollaboration is the systematic process of communicating and working with other people or groups from different locations through online or virtual means to produce a desired work output. The process can be implemented in various settings such as the classroom, workplace, laboratory, or even at home, through the organized use of Web-based collaboration tools and resources, such email, chat, video-conferencing, wikis, forums, social networking sites, etc.

In the field of education, various studies and journal articles have enumerated the potentials of telecollaboration in enriching students’ learning experiences. Practitioners share that telecollaboration provides students with authentic activities to practice and enhance the 21st century skills such as communication, data gathering, analysis of information, creative thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and local and global awareness.

University of Virginia’s WebLearn website further states that “[t]he best telecollaborative projects are those that are fully integrated into the curriculum and not just extra-curricular activities, those in which technology use enables activities that would not have been possible without it, and those that empower students to become active, collaborative, creative, integrative, and evaluative learners.” [1] It is important, however, to note that the teacher should continue to provide facilitation, support, and guidance in these activities – providing a guide structure, answering questions, discussing key issues, recommending useful resources, monitoring the activity, and commenting on student progress and output.

I'm not sure if my experience qualifies, because it is industry-based, not academic.  During the time I was working in IBM Research I worked on a remote collaboration project that took me into Second Life, which proved to be an amazing learning environment.  As a result of that work I served a term on the Board of Directors the New Media Consortium.  Aside from the virtual world collaboration and learning, I have run studies for the IBM Academy of Technology, using telecommunications almost exclusively, and led global communities of practice where the participants never met each other in person.  These experiences have included small groups, and up to hundreds of participants, as well as conferences, such as an international virtual world conference for librarians, educators, and museums in Second Life.  I was on the receiving end of 120 hours of training via Skype and Google Hangout, where I was in California, and everyone else was in Bangalore.

I would be happy to share more details of any or all of this, if it seems relevant.

I am interested in collaborating on the emerging paradigm. I am a PhD Candidate in Technology Enhanced Learning & e-Research and your proposed research interest still fits within my area of expertise.

Hi! I am interested in telecollaborative learning and I teach first year dentistry students. Our research group focuses on ICT use as a tool on education.

However the English ability of the students is probably very low.

In what kind of activity are you thinking? How many students should join? How long it will take? What is the level of commitment required for the joining students?

Regards

Hi I'm interested too. I teach Masters in education students. Further info would be great, thanks.

Hi am interested to know more about telecollaborative learning .. and also lets think about the PROS AND CONS OF the same......

Helklo, me too. But my english is not good, and I'm now studing for a Master in Biodiversity. I'm biologist, but I'm teaching in Primary Level 32 years ago... I now shortly 

Within these limits, you can count on me for the project.

My email: [email protected]

I am interested.  I have been part of a team for 7 years doing Collaborative Multicultural Distant Learning for Global Software Development with members in Turkey, US, England, Mexico and Panama ... [email protected]

I find your investigation very interesting. We have some experience in virtual learning  including a shared virtual campus.  Our experiences refer to Statistics and Econometrics, and some subjects also also taught in English.

Below you can find some links to previous works:

http://www.itdl.org/journal/may_06/article05.htm

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236273430_Blended_Learning_in_Econometrics._Crossing_borders_between_Learning_and_Doing

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266734513_Exploring_virtual_mobility_some_experiences_in_a_shared_virtual_campus

Best regards

Article Blended Learning in Econometrics. Crossing borders between L...

Conference Paper Exploring virtual mobility: some experiences in a shared vir...

I am a computer assistant professor at food thechnology department (tertiary education) and I am teaching ICT to first year  students. I have telecoIaboration activities through Moodle and I  am interested in telecollaborative learning. My e-mail: [email protected]

I am a faculty member of Teacher Education Institute. What grade level? we had tried before tellecollaboration. And am interested to work with you on this

I am interested too. I am a Secondary Ed. Teacher of Social Studies in a Bilingual School. I am also exploring ways to expand the classroom beyond the physical walls. Thank you.

Thank you all for showing interest. I have contacted many of you personally as a result of your interest and seeming compatibility with the research I wanted to conduct. As a result of your interest, I have filled up my schedule for telecollaborative projects this term. For those I have not contacted, I hope that you may be able to connect with others here about collaboration. Since my research is focused on university undergraduate students, I did not contact anyone who teaches graduate students or those who teach primary and secondary level students at this time. I hope those of you who I did not contact will be able to find partner classes among others who showed interest here. I wish you all the best in your research. 

I am also very interested please contact me at [email protected]

I am interested in this collaboration. My contact: [email protected]

Hi Simeon, I am interested in this collaboration project. Please contact me at [email protected]

Dear Simeon sensei, I would like to contact you off list in order to talk about some possible collaborations. My email is [email protected] and I am presently based at Hokkaido University, Faculty of Sciences. As a matter of fact I would like to contact other teachers in other places interested in PBL courses and PBL  methodology. Thanks. Helena

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I would like to be part

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