Workshop «Learning Management Systems: Designing a Moodle Course of an ESP»

On November 27th Foreign Language Training Center of ITMO University together with English Language Office of U.S. Embassy in Moscow held an interactive workshop «Learning Management Systems: Designing a Moodle Course of an ESP» by Jeffrey Kuhn!

In this workshop you  take a hands-on approach to building an ESP course using the Learning Management Systems (LMS) Moodle. As you work through the construction of the course, you investigate the affordances of an LMS for assessment and student performance. Also, the challenges for teachers in making their LMS courses accessible and user friendly for students are discussed.

About the speaker:

Jeff Kuhn is an instructor and instructional designer in the Patton College of Education at Ohio University where he received his PhD in Educational Studies. His PhD work focused on instructional design and the use of classroom technology across educational contexts. He has over ten years experience in the English as a Second/Foreign Language classroom including teaching in Japan and Mongolia.  He is a frequent keynote speaker on the use of technology in the foreign language classroom and has worked with educators on instructional design challenges in Brazil, Czech Republic, Peru, and Bolivia. He also publishes and presents on the use of video games for learning, computer assisted language learning (CALL) and second language writing.