Learning Symposium

New Course Offerings with MSU's Online Language Teaching Initiative! Check them out!

(Limited seats available and going fast for the reduced-priced pilot courses offered for the first time in November!)

News from Learning Symposium & The OLT As the former organizer of the MSU Learning Symposium, I just wanted to check in with you all during these tough times. Due to pandemic restrictions and the many uncertainties ESL programs are facing these days, we are all scrambling.

I just sent this out via the email group, but in case you didn't see it! -Austin

⏰ Register for "Intro to Online Language Teaching" ⏰ As the former organizer of the MSU Learning Symposium, I just wanted to reach out to everyone and wish you all the best in these tough times. I also wanted to let you know about a very timely new project that I'm really excited to be working on here at Michigan State University.

Introduction to Online Language Teaching - Applications for the Fall 2019 cohort are now open

The Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) and the English Language Center (ELC) at Michigan State University have focused on promoting the development and teaching of quality online language courses and programs at Michigan State University. We are now happy to offer our internal professional development course, Introduction to Online Language Teaching, to language educators outside of MSU.

Introduction to Online Language Teaching is a fully online course designed for experienced classroom instructors who want to make the transition to teaching languages online. Course participants will gain an understanding of key criteria and conceptual frameworks used to describe online pedagogy, and will develop expertise in the areas of course quality and design, accessibility, and media. The online nature of the course exposes participants to all of the affordances and constraints of an online environment for language teaching and learning, allowing them to experience a student’s perspective firsthand. This includes engaging in a variety of tasks and discussions, which are meant to be a non-comprehensive sampling of the possibilities of online learning. Participants will receive feedback from the instructor and, by the end of the course, will have developed a principled plan for developing an online course at their own institution.

Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) :: Intro to Online Language Teaching The Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) and the English Language Center (ELC) at Michigan State University have focused on promoting the development and teaching of quality online language courses and programs at Michigan State University. We are now happy to open our internal training....

Gearing up for tomorrow’s “Mind the Gap” event!

I just sent out the "Last Chance to Register" call for Saturday's "Mind the Gap" event. It includes details for joining online via Zoom and some updates regarding Parking. See you Saturday!

- Austin Kaufmann, Learning Symposium Organizer

⏰ Last Chance To Register for "Mind the Gap" (Sat., Apr. 13.) ⏰ The last Learning Symposium event of 2019, Mind the Gap: Bridging the Researcher-Teacher Divide, is just two days away, on Saturday, April 13, from 12:30 to 4:30pm in Wells Hall on the MSU campus in East Lansing. If you'd like to attend this free mini-conference, please register today! This event br...