Pamela Arraras's List: EFL Online Course Design

• materials or lesson sheets are made available on-line for the learner to study independently
• materials are supplemented with two-way communication between the teacher and the individual learner.
• students share exchanges amongst each other as well as with the teacher.
• The aspects of language should be appropriate to the environment it is being taught.
• The tutorial model is suitable for giving feedback to individual learners, avoiding the risk of causing embarrassment or intimidation if the feedback is made available to everyone. Overall, however, the co-operative model is probably the most beneficial for the learner. It encourages collaborative learning supporting Vygotsky and Feuerstein's belief that 'the secret of effective learning lies in the nature of the social interaction between two or more people' (Williams and Burden, 1997: 40). The co-operative model also provides excellent opportunities for students to participate in stimulating task-based activities.
• Regardless, adding a chat room onto an Internet site is simple enough so making it available as an additional free service for students wishing to participate in such an activity is not such a bad idea, however, paying a facilitator to monitor the chat room may be unjustifiable.

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• 1. Knowledge    - remembering previously learned material
     2. Comprehension - grasping the meaning of material
     3. Application - using learned material in new and concrete situations
     4. Analysis - breaking down material into its component parts and understand    its organizational structure
     5. Synthesis - assembling parts together to form a new whole
     6. Evaluation - judging the value of material for a given purpose