Massive Open Online Course Mentoring for a Connected Community of Practice of Language Teachers

Massive Open Online Course Mentoring for a Connected Community of Practice of Language Teachers
The Southampton University/British Council “Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching” Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) attracted a large number of enrolments, including many language teachers.
The platform and course is designed to promote social learning at scale. This article reports on the implementation and preliminary analysis of a principled approach to mentoring, which aims to connect participants and foster communities of practice among language teachers.

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 23 November 2015
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Manuel León-Urrutia, Su White