Multiliteracies and Active Learning in CLIL—The Development of LearnWeb2.0

Abstract

In addition to user-generated content, Open Educational Resources are increasingly made available on the Web by several institutions and organizations with the aim of being re-used. Nevertheless, it is still difficult for users to find appropriate resources for specific learning scenarios among the vast amount offered on the Web. Our goal is to give users the opportunity to search for authentic resources from the Web and reuse them in a learning context. The LearnWeb-OER platform enhances collaborative searching and sharing of educational resources providing specific means and facilities for education. In the following, we provide a description of the functionalities that support users in collaboratively collecting, selecting, annotating and discussing search results and learning resources. Track: Open Track

ArchiveWeb: Collaboratively Extending and Exploring Web Archive Collections

“…Previous research on helping users keep track of their resources include tools that provide better search and organizational facilities based on metadata/time [5] or tagging [3]. Our system provides similar organizational functionalities refined through several learning communities and previous work, LearnWeb [12], thus gaining advantage from several years of development and user feedback in that context. ArchiveWeb builds on the LearnWeb platform which already supports collaborative sensemaking [6,18] by allowing users to share and collaboratively work on resources retrieved from various web sources [2,8,13,14].…”

“…On the basis of this preliminary study, and building on previous work we did for collaborative learning environments [1,10,11,12,19] we designed and built the ArchiveWeb system to support collaborative creation and enrichment of web archive collections, with a focus on user interface and searching/sharing functionalities. We ingested 200 web archive collections from Archive-It, and asked our archiving partners for their input.…”

YELL/TELL: online community platform for teacher professional development

“…The YELL/TELL community platform allows users to share and collaboratively work on resources collected from the web or teacher-generated; resources can be bookmarked, tagged, rated, and discussed by all users who join the different interest groups (Marenzi & Zerr, 2012). Users can create folders "to bundle resources that belong to the same learning context, [… hence,] collaboratively identify the best learning resources for specific learning domains" (Abel, Marenzi, Nejdl, & Zerr, 2009, p. 158; see also Bortoluzzi & Marenzi, 2014).…”

Language functions and medical communication: The human body as text

“…The system chosen to encourage group project work was LearnWeb (http://learnweb.l3s.uni-hannover.de) that was initially developed in 2010-2011 to support multiliteracies at European universities (Marenzi and Zerr 2012). It provides group access to a range of web services, each with a different stance on web genres and resources, in keeping with the principles explained above of training students to think about and experiment with multimodal medical communication, as well as mastering specific biomedical terminology.…”