Teaching Online

Abstract

Teachers and tasks facilitate and mediate learning and constitute an important part of online learning (see Figure 3.1). A report on a Europewide survey on the impact of ICT in teaching and learning foreign languages, commissioned in 2002 by the European Community Directorate General of Education and Culture, claims that a

shift of paradigm is necessary in teacher/learner roles. Co-operative, collaborative procedures are called for to harness the wide range of possibilities the new media offer. Teachers are called upon to abandon traditional roles and act more as guides and mentors, exploring the new media themselves as learners and thus acting as role models for their learners. (Fitzpatrick and Davies, 2003: 4)