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Moving to Online Instruction: The Challenges and Opportunities
David Nunan will be moderating in person this webcast colloquium.
All teacher educators will be faced with the imperative to teach online, at some stage in their career. The online teaching may supplement one, or more face-to-face classes, or may replace face-to-face instruction, entirely. While some skills will transfer from face-to-face to online, environments, most will not. They will either have to be transformed or, replaced entirely. In this colloquium, teacher educators with extensive experience in, both face-to-face and online teacher education will share their experience of moving from face-to-face to online instruction. Each will outline a key challenge they had to confront in moving to a new teaching/learning modality, describe how they met the challenge, and discuss the opportunities for professional growth and development that resulted from their engagement with online teacher education. Theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of online teacher education will be woven into each account.
Biographical Sketches
David Nunan, Ph.D., is Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Anaheim University. He is a past President of TESOL International Association (2000-01) and the world's leading textbook series author. Dr. Nunan is a world-renowned linguist and best-selling author of English Language Teaching textbooks. David Nunan has been involved in the teaching of graduate programs for such prestigious institutions as the University of Hong Kong, Columbia University, the University of Hawaii, Monterey Institute for International Studies, and many more. In 2002, Dr. Nunan received a congressional citation from the United States House of Representatives for his services to English language education through his pioneering work in online education at Anaheim University.
Martha Clark Cummings, Ph.D., received her doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College. She has served on the Nominating Committee of TESOL and is currently a member of the Standing Committee on Diversity. Dr. Cummings has taught for The Monterey Institute of International Studies and the New School Online University, as well as ESL courses for the University of Aizu in Japan, where she lived from 2002-06. She has also lived and worked in many other locations around the world and is author of numerous academic articles and short stories.
Ken Beatty, Ph.D., is an expert in the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Dr. Beatty is the author/co-author of more than 100 textbooks for Pearson, Longman, Oxford University Press, Thomson, Heinle & Heinle, and Hong Kong Educational Press He is involved in electronic media and was Academic Advisor to Hong Kong's Educational Television from 1998 to 2004. Dr. Beatty taught the last 15 years at universities in the UAE, the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Studies from the University of Hong Kong.
Denise Murray, Ph.D., served as President of TESOL from 1996-97 and on the Board of Directors of TESOL for 7 years. Now TESOL Professor at Anaheim University, Prof. Murray is Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, Australia, and at San José State University, California. Her research centers around computer-assisted language learning; cross-cultural literacy; use of L1 in the second language classroom; intersection of language, society and technology; settlement of adult immigrants; language education policy; and leadership in language education. She has published her work in 17 books and more than 100 articles in professional journals, as book chapters, or conference proceedings.
MaryAnn Christison, Ph.D., is a past President of TESOL (1997-98) and serves on the Board of Trustees for The International Research Foundation (TIRF). Holding a Ph.D. in English/Linguistics from the University of Utah, Dr. Christison has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in applied linguistics for over 30 years. She is the author of over 80 refereed articles in journals on language teaching and second language research and 18 books. She has been a classroom teacher for 38 years and a teacher educator for over 20 years. Her current research interests are in leadership, second language teacher development, and language and the brain.
