By Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Ed
Even as online education booms, fully digital language classes like Mr. Fondaw’s remain uncommon. But North Carolina’s experiment—driven by growing demand for Spanish instruction, limited classroom space, a shortage of qualified instructors, pedagogical innovations, and cost savings—is one of several efforts nationwide that are starting to map an online future for teaching languages. At some community colleges, online classes help language departments continue to offer less popular languages, like German or French, that might not attract enough students to fill a classroom. And, perhaps most promisingly, some universities have found success experimenting with hybrid language classes that shift much of the work online but still meet regularly face to face.
http://chronicle.com/article/Foreign-Language-Instruction/129604/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
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