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Learning from the past, ClozeFox is a beautiful example of pedagogy-driven design as it responds to a huge need for interaction on authentic content '''without labor-intensive''' authoring. At the same time, it exploits affordances of Firefox extensions and related Web 2.0 tools for guaranteeing personalization, socialization, and scalability in terms of languages, parsing intelligence, exercise types, feedback, error analysis, remediation, and tracking & logging. | Learning from the past, ClozeFox is a beautiful example of pedagogy-driven design as it responds to a huge need for interaction on authentic content '''without labor-intensive''' authoring. At the same time, it exploits affordances of Firefox extensions and related Web 2.0 tools for guaranteeing personalization, socialization, and scalability in terms of languages, parsing intelligence, exercise types, feedback, error analysis, remediation, and tracking & logging. | ||
Language teachers worldwide are expected to encourage to use Mozilla Firefox in order to enrich their own learning environment with a powerful tool for autonomous and / or collaborative learning. Using ClozeFox, students will be able to exchange self-made exercises, store them in social collaborative repositories, moreover teachers can ask them to do so and monitor progress. ClozeFox can be seen as a first product in a series of tools for enhancing the (language) learning experience. | Language teachers worldwide are expected to encourage their students to use Mozilla Firefox in order to enrich their own learning environment with a powerful tool for autonomous and / or collaborative learning. Using ClozeFox, students will be able to exchange self-made exercises, store them in social collaborative repositories, moreover teachers can ask them to do so and monitor progress. ClozeFox can be seen as a first product in a series of tools for enhancing the (language) learning experience. | ||
== INSTALL == | == INSTALL == | ||
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Where initially language courseware (dedicated, meaning designed for language learning, teaching and testing) was the most successful application type, gradually tools (non-dedicated) have been taking over the leading position, both in terms of use as in terms of research and publications. An easy explanation of this phenomenon might be the impact of Web 2.0, but a more serious analysis reveals two important factors: the labor-intensiveness of content development and the labor-intensiveness of software development (Colpaert 2004). | Where initially language courseware (dedicated, meaning designed for language learning, teaching and testing) was the most successful application type, gradually tools (non-dedicated) have been taking over the leading position, both in terms of use as in terms of research and publications. An easy explanation of this phenomenon might be the impact of Web 2.0, but a more serious analysis reveals two important factors: the labor-intensiveness of content development and the labor-intensiveness of software development (Colpaert 2004). | ||
The | The cloze exercise type remains a widely demanded, meaningful, useful and effective activity type. The impact of its deployment depends on the extent to which we can reduce the cost of content authoring (by reusing existing material, making it more generic and exchangeable, by researching new ways of generating content and questions from authentic materials in a computer assisted way, ...), and the cost of software development (by using appropriate design models, by reusing existing components and expertise, by working in open source, ...). | ||
== Project objective == | == Project objective == | ||