Application analysis of Athabasca University Distance language learning tools.doc

Application analysis of Athabasca University Distance language learning tools Abstracts: Athabasca University development, adaptation and application of a number of technical tools to provide and strengthen the teaching of the language courses. Moodle online learning platform MyAU, Wimba Voice system, curriculum blog, online discussion groups, writing website, mobile learning largely compensate for the lack of a remote language learning, guarantee pure distance language teaching quality, certain references to the remote language teaching in China. Paper Keywords: Athabasca University, remote language learning, learning support Athabasca University (AU leader in open and distance education in Canada, one of the first open distance education and online teaching institutions in the world, there are an estimated 35,000 people in school undergraduates AU undergraduate courses are not surface lectures, the vast majority of the course is pure individual learning remote. AU Language and Literature Center is one of 10 centers in the school more than 5,000 undergraduate, accounting for 1/7 of the whole school undergraduate students in order to ensure the quality of the the pure remote language teaching, AU development, adaptation and application of a multi- kinds of technical tools to provide and to strengthen the teaching of the language courses, the application of these techniques to a large extent compensate for the lack of a remote language learning provides students with many opportunities for oral and written communication with the guidance counselor to ensure pure remote the quality of language teaching. , MyAU: based on the Moodle online platform Moodle’s full name is modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment, it is a free website application, educators can use to create effective online learning sites. MyAU AU to create a network based on Moodle portal system. AU students use this system to provide the individual site services and inf