The program is divided between two days—Friday, April 30, 2021 and Saturday, May 1, 2021. All times below are listed in Eastern Daylight Time.
Both days of the event will be conducted in a webinar format, through Zoom. The Meeting ID and Passcodes will be sent to registrants by email.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri. | 15:00 | 15:10 | Welcome & Opening Remarks Jamie Rankin Jill Dolan Stéphane Charitos |
| Fri. | 15:10 | 15:55 | Open education and second language learning and teaching: The rise of a new knowledge ecology Keynote Address Carl Blyth |
| Fri. | 16:10 | 16:40 | Felicitous enterprise: Lessons in Tamil L2 curricular design from Tirukkuṟaḷ 675 Tyler Richard |
| Fri. | 16:50 | 17:20 | Innovating pedagogy through OER's: Creating and implementing an open-access first-year Russian language textbook Lynne deBenedette |
| Fri. | 17:30 | 18:00 | Unpublishing published materials for teaching Japanese Wako Tawa |
| Sat. | 09:00 | 09:45 | Reimagining curriculum design through virtual spaces Keynote Address Nicole Mills |
| Sat. | 10:00 | 10:30 | Developing a context-based Italian online curriculum Anna Cellinese, Daniele De Feo, Sara Teardo, Ben Johnston |
| Sat. | 10:40 | 11:10 | Building a language textbook composed of college students' experiences Yongtaek Kim |
| Sat. | 11:20 | 11:50 | Reinventing the curriculum: The case of Portuguese at the University of Chicago Ana Maria Lima |
| Sat. | 12:00 | 12:30 | Diversity and inclusion: Performance- and literacy-based instruction in the open textbook Trayectos Gabriela Zapata |
| Sat. | 12:30 | 13:30 | Reception |
| Sat. | 13:30 | 14:00 | Immersing learners in context, culture, and communication: Recreating Twi language materials for beginners Hannah Essien |
| Sat. | 14:10 | 14:40 | Creating, sharing and revising four online courses in Italian language and culture Daniela Bartalesi-Graf |
| Sat. | 14:50 | 15:20 | der|die|das: Integrating L2 vocabulary research into online curriculum design Jamie Rankin |
| Sat. | 15:30 | 16:00 | Facilitating autonomous language learning and developing critical skills using an innovative Spanish learning platform Catalina Méndez Vallejo, Adriana Meriño, Anais Holgado-Lage |
| Sat. | 16:15 | 17:00 | Panel Discussion |