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Home AVALON
EU funded AVALON

AVALON is the name of the new European funded project which explores the potential of Second Life for language learning.

AVALON stands for Access to Virtual and Action Learning live ONline.

26 European partners (11 of which are Universities) will spend 2 years in development (Jan 2009 - Dec 2010). These partners are as follows...

Project Coordinator
University of Manchester, UK

Project Partners
University of Vienna, Austria
ICC Europe, Germany
The British Council, Spain
Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Universita di Pisa, Italy
Molde University, Norway
Talkademy, Austria (Co-initiator)
Verein Grenzenlos, Austria
LANCELOT School, Germany (Co-initiator)

Associate Partners
Zapadoceska¡ univerzita, Plzen
SEED, Stockholm University, Sweden
HUMlab, Umea University, Sweden
University of Tübingen, Germany
University of Siena, Italy
Universität Kassel, Germany
IH World Organisation Ltd
Cambridge University Press
Learning Technologies SIG of IATEFL
MONDIALE Testing Systems
IBM Virtual Universe Community
Languagelab.com
myngle.com
European Telecoaching Institute
SKYLIGHT GmbH
Tunnicliff and Kollegen Gbr

AVALON site

Please feel free to sign up at our project website http://avalon-project.ning.com for regular updates

 

So, what exactly will we do? AVALON is about scenario based learning and when asked what this has to do with LANCELOT learning, I keep saying: we learn a language in a virtual classroom (LANCELOT) and we practise it in Second Life. So, it is all about scenario based learning, action based learning, action research and similar expressions that denote learning by doing. For more information please sign up at our project website http://avalon-project.ning.com

What an exciting project indeed.
Last Updated on Monday, 07 June 2010 12:42