Posted At : November 7, 2008 8:50 PM 1 Comments
We are delighted to announce that Learnosity has successfully deployed its ground breaking language learning platform in a large pilot project with The Le@arning Federation, a collaborative initiative of all Australian and New Zealand governments.
The project puts a mobile phone in the hands of high school students in a number of schools across three states in Australia. The students regularly dial into the Learnosity Voice system, to answer a number of questions in the Indonesian language. They can then login to a web interface to listen to their own responses, see teacher feedback, listen to sample answers from native Indonesian speakers, and podcast their own answers with sample answers.
Keep an eye on the Learnosity website for an upcoming case study on this innovative and exciting project. We should also be able to bring you some insights from the official Learning Federation report on the project, which will document the increased student spoken language competencies of students after using the system for one academic term.
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Hi Gavin,
My name is Hila and I am a student of Prop' Michal Yerushalmi from the Haifa University in Israel.
I am interesed in the area of language and technology.
I have read the publications you posted and watched the movies clips regarding them as well and I have a couple of questions:
1 - Is the Austrelian project an experimental project (much like the one you had in Irland), or is it a working project meant to imbed the use of the mLearning and eAssessment into the schools there?
2 - No where in the posts or movie clips I saw an expination regarding the assessment of the answers the student gives. I would like to know, is the assessment done using the teachers to log in to the assessment webtool and set right/worng answers, or is it a intelligent computer software that does it using a very complex comperison algorithm?
Have a nice day,
Hilla