The Department of Writing and Linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences invites nominations and applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Georgia Southern University, a member institution of the University System of Georgia, is the largest and most comprehensive center of higher education in the southern half of Georgia. Georgia Southern University is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a Doctoral/Research institution.

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I am working on a research project which involves learning about methods of assessing the effectiveness of e-learning tools, particularly socially-collaborative and "informal" learning tools. I am thinking community blogs, wikis, virtual worlds and such as well as platforms that combine all of the above and perhaps others. In other words, I am not interested in the type of electronic behemoths which are focusing on grammar drills and which are put out by all the textbook publishers. Here are some questions that I'd need to answer:

--design effectiveness

Portfolios, not only ePortfolios are good way of combining different challenges. In genereral the point of view of the learner, seeing his/her process of learning and the instructor, who needs the resuts for judging (grading) and planing other courses.
If you want to go beyond the level of the texts only eportfolios are a good deal. But the format, the electronic form, doesn't make the contend alone. ePortfolios can be an advantage for integrating audio, pictures and videos, for creating a picture with wider aspects. But relying on the form alone is difficult. Creating ePortfolios should also integrate the students, that are not that computer-literate, for this the combination of (traditional) portfolios and ePortfolios seems to me, an language lecturer in Asia (Japan), an appropriate way.

Portfolios, not only ePortfolios are good way of combining different challenges. In genereral the point of view of the learner, seeing his/her process of learning and the instructor, who needs the resuts for judging (grading) and planing other courses.
If you want to go beyond the level of the texts only eportfolios are a good deal. But the format, the electronic form, doesn't make the contend alone. ePortfolios can be an advantage for integrating audio, pictures and videos, for creating a picture with wider aspects. But relying on the form alone is difficult. Creating ePortfolios should also integrate the students, that are not that computer-literate, for this the combination of (traditional) portfolios and ePortfolios seems to me, an language lecturer in Asia (Japan), an appropriate way.