Professor Lectures on Computer-Mediated Language Learning

Professor Mark Warschauer gave a lecture to faculty at Cornell University on April 7, 2009, on "Web 2.0 and Language Learning."

The presentation was organized by Cornell's Language Resource Center. Warschauer delivered the lecture via interactive videoconference, using the advanced facilities for that provided by UCI's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).

Videoconference Description

Mark Warschauer was one of the first educational researchers to pay serious attention to the affordances and efficacy of computer assisted language learning, especially computer mediated communication. Since then he has gone on to analyze emerging trends in social computing and interpret them for educators. In this talk, he will review the principal modes of Web 2.0, pointing out their meaning and potential for education. His talk will be related to his article: "Audience, Authorship, and Artifact: The Emergent Semiotics of WEB 2.0." This event will be via videoconference, in G05 Noyes Lodge.