This 6-week course supports faculty working with any foreign or second language course. It addresses the conceptualization, development, and implementation of online language courses and/or course components. Participants will learn fundamental design and instructional strategies for making optimal use of technologies in their online language teaching. Examples are not specific to a particular language.

Course Topics include:

   -Principles of Online Language Teaching and Learning
   -Designing Online Interactive Exercises
   -Audio for Effective Instruction
   -Effective Use of Video
   -Introducing the Virtual Classroom
   -Discussion Boards: Anatomy of Online Instructional Conversations
   -Integrating Web-based Materials

Participants are expected to have basic computer skills such as Word processing, communicating via email, Internet searching, etc.