The CI-MSU Online Course Design Meeting
The design meeting took place in the Learning Center of the CCRTVU, Beijing China on July 1 and 2, 2006. There were more than fifteen people attending the meeting, including the President of the CCRTVU, the director of the CI-MSU, faculty, technology specialists, and instructional design specialists from both CI-MSU and CCRTVU Research and Development Center. The meeting focused on the new paradigm of designing online language learning environments, which is considered by all attendees to be motivating and tailored to the needs of American and western students who learn Chinese as a foreign language. The tentative design guidelines are to follow a mysterious, hypothetical story line that attracts students into a set of problem-based learning scenarios, which are grounded in Chinese culture, history, geography, philosophy, art, and modern living.
