E-Learning without Text and Language: A Language-Free Learning Model
PROCEEDINGS
Hakan Kalinyaprak, Institute of Software Technology, Information & Software Engineering Group, Vienna University of Technology, Austria ; Gerald Futschek, Institute of Software Technology, Information & Software Engineering Group, Vienna University of Technology, Austria ; Georg Blaha, fh-campus wien, Zentrum Neue Medien und Fernlehre, Austria ; Edgar Weippl, Institute of Software Technology, Information & Software Engineering Group, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Montreal, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-56-3 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC
Abstract
E-learning is usually highly based on language understanding and addresses usually those learners, who have certain basic skills in reading and listening a specific language. Persons that cannot understand the languages that are usually used in e-learning units and also illiterate persons, who are insufficiently educated, are not able to achieve enough profit from many e-learning courses. This paper shows how e-learning makes it possible for certain groups, e.g. asylum-seekers coming from different countries, to learn without using text and language. This paper gives also some examples of learning sequences for self-learning that are completely independent of any language. Learning without text and language is based on the principle of the request for imitating. This principle represents a didactical challenge for the authors of the learning sequences especially in respect to graphical animation of universally understandable gestures, signs and symbols. Of course the lessons learned from this sort of e-learning can also be used in authoring ordinary e-learning content.
Citation
Kalinyaprak, H., Futschek, G., Blaha, G. & Weippl, E. (2005). E-Learning without Text and Language: A Language-Free Learning Model. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2005--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 3157-3163). Montreal, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved December 9, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/20568/.
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