1. wpeau.ca Dr. Mohamed Ally Colin Elliott Tracey Woodburn
AU Workplace English
wpeau.ca
Dr. Mohamed Ally
Colin Elliott
Tracey Woodburn

2. New Generations of Students
Online presence
Now generation
@ generation
Virtual generation
Social networking
Games
Digital experts
Adapt to technology quickly
Technology is second nature

3. Current Generation of Students
Online presence
Social networking
Games
Technology literate

4. Mobile cellular has been the most rapidly adopted technology in history. Today it is the most popular and widespread personal technology on the planet, with an estimated 4.6 billion subscriptions globally by the end of 2009.
Mobile broadband subscriptions overtook fixed broadband subscribers in 2008, highlighting the huge potential for the mobile Internet.

5. Shift to Mobility E-learning to M-learning E-Commerce to M-commerce
E-government to M-government
E-collaboration to M-collaboration
E-library to M-library
E-health to M-health

6. Emerging Technologies in Learning
Print
E-learning
Mobile Learning
(M-learning)

7. Games as a learning strategy Mobile devices Online courses
The Ultimate School in the 21st Century (Albert Browne, Verizon Foundation, U.S.A.)
Use of digital media
Games as a learning strategy
Mobile devices
Online courses

8. Learning Materials Development
Break content into small chunks
Design as learning objects
Store in repositories for easy access
Metatagged, retrieved, and reused

9. Design Principles
Chunk the information to prevent information overload
Use advance organizers to facilitate the processing of details
Dual-coding hypothesis: present information in visual and textual/verbal
Use concept and information maps
Design for specific context

10. What is WPE? -Content
86 Grammar lessons with 155 interactive exercises
Including:
Vocabulary from 8 different workplace situations:
Health and Wellness Trades and Labour
Utilities-Oil/Gas/Mining Food Services and Restaurants
Retail and Sales Administration and Clerical
Hospitality and Tourism Banking and Personal Finance
5 audio exercises and 1 video exercise

11. WPEAU- Statistics
90% of students thought that mobile learning provided them with the opportunity to learn anytime, anywhere.
69% of students thought mobile technology increased the quality of their learning experience

12. Content: AUESLAUWPE
AU Mobile ESL AU Workplace English

13. Question Format There are 4 types of interactive questions:
True/False Ex. 1.1
Multiple Choice Ex. 2.1
Matching Ex. 9.2
Sequencing Ex. 13.1

14. Question format
True/False
Ex. 1.1
Multiple Choice
Ex. 2.1

15. Question format
Matching
Ex. 9.2
Sequencing
Ex. 13.1

16. Audio Five styles of interactive audio exercises
Audio Vocabulary list (Health and Wellness Vocabulary)
Audio dialogue followed by text questions (Ex. 20.2)
Multiple Choice - audio sentence then choose text answer (Ex. 28.1)
Multiple Choice - read text then choose audio answer (Ex. 38.3)
Audio lesson (Lesson 51)

17. Health and Wellness Audio Vocabulary List

18. Ex. 20.2 Audio dialogue text questions

19. Ex. 28.1 Audio questions text answers

20. Video
Lesson 10 Ex. 9.3
A short scene between a medic and an injured worker followed by text questions (01:53)

21. Technology Designed for advanced devices MP4, MP3 Auto-detect
Re-sizes for device

22. Future Directions
More multimedia
More devices
Dynamic pages
apps