Liling Huang and Svitlana Malykhina present innovative projects in Geddes Digital Showcase Content
Liling Huang, lecturer in WLL’s Chinese Language Program, and Svitlana Malykhina, Head of the Russian Language Program, displayed their innovation projects in the Geddes Language Center’s Spring 2017 Digital Faculty Showcase.
Liling Huang gave the third presentation “Mooc: Chinese Pragmatics” telling how she developed an interactive online course to teach learners real life communication skills in Chinese. To enhance the learning effect, students are exposed to innovative digital teaching tools including Animaker, voice recognition technology, Quizcat, to name a few.
Svitlana Malykhina gave the final presentation “Russian Digital Portfolio” telling how she used a Geddes mini grant to adopt Digication, a platform conducive to multimedia content for her Russian language course.
BU Educational Technology has a detailed report of the Geddes Showcase here.
Video Presentations for each topics from the showcase can be seen here.