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Publication Date: 2018-Oct
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Sustainability of U-CALL
Veselá, Katerina Gajdácová
ICTE Journal, v7 n2 p30-38 Oct 2018
This paper shows that the flexibility of time as a potential of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) proves the sustainability of its latest stage -- Ubiquitous CALL. Firstly, the ideas of the Third Millennium Pedagogy are combined with the ethical and philosophical principles of sustainable education. One of the descriptors of the sustainable education -- its durability is then compared with the principle of time flexibility in e-learning. On this theoretical base, the ideas of Ubiquitous Learning in general and Ubiquitous CALL (U-CALL) in particular are developed. Two comparable cases of the research aimed at the time flexibility of e-learning in foreign language education are described. The former one was conducted in 2016, the later in 2008. Similar results in time flexibility prove that e-learning in language education can be omnipresent, fulfilling the demands on Ubiquitous CALL. The durability of time flexibility proven by the real-life examples indicates the sustainability of U-CALL.
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Sustainability, Electronic Learning, Blended Learning, Educational Attainment, Student Centered Learning, Access to Education, English (Second Language), Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Intensive Language Courses, Educational Technology, Student Behavior, Foreign Countries, Seminars, Time on Task, Scheduling, Educational Philosophy
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