Copyright

Lidia Cámara de la Fuente; Anna Comas-Quinn

Published On

2016-12-19

Page Range

pp. 93-114

Language

  • English

Print Length

21 pages

5. Situated Learning in Open Communities: The TED Open Translation Project

Chapter of: Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education (pp. 93–114)

Contributors

Lidia Cámara de la Fuente

(author)
Applied Linguistics Researcher and Associate Professor of the Philosophical Faculty at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Lidia Cámara de la Fuente is Applied Linguistics Researcher and Associate Professor of the Philosophical Faculty at Humboldt University of Berlin. She carries out research in two areas: (in)formal learning of second and foreign language(s) through social media in multilingual and multicultural inclusive web communities, and multimodal and multilingual accessibility to information and knowledge for those who are disadvantaged due to disabilities, ethnic and cultural minorities and asylum seekers and refugees. She is a Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) Associate Member, a Spanish Language Coordinator for the TED Open Translation Project, and a Spanish Language Coordinator for Coursera.

Anna Comas-Quinn

(author)
Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of the Department of Languages at the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at The Open University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8290-4315

Anna Comas-Quinn is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of the Department of Languages at the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at The Open University, UK. She led the development of LORO (http://loro.open.ac.uk), a repository of open educational resources for languages, was a Fellow of the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE), and is a long-standing member of the organizing committee of the UK-based OER conference. She has published on technology-enhanced and mobile language learning, teacher professional development, and open educational resources and practices, and co-edited the first book on open practice in language teaching (http://research-publishing.net/publications/2013-beaven-comas-quinn-sawhill).