Web blended CALL: Can a teacher with ‘basic ICT skills’ design online lessons?
Abstract
Many of my colleagues in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Arba Minch University, Ethiopia doubt if a higher education teacher in our context can design and teach online courses. Hence, the objective of this paper is to present two cases of a teacher with basic computer
skills designing online lessons using a Learning Content Management software named Moodle.
It, therefore, narrates the teachers' two experiences of designing online lessons . The courses for which the
online lessons designed for was Communicative English Language Skills (Eng
1011) and Lesson Planning and Classroom Management (TEFL 6102). The former is a common course for first
degree students and the later is a course for second degree TEFL students at
Arba Minch University. The later online lessons were practically tasted on the
target group while the former is designed as part of the presenter’s a quasi
experimental research for his PhD study. The presenter comes with this paper
with the ambition of encouraging other EFL teachers in particular and all
subject teachers in general strive to use blended learning in their teaching.
Key terms: blended
learning, CALL, EFL, basic ICT skills
