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発表の題名: The IVE Project: A New Moodle Report for Intercultural Forum Interaction

発表の種類: Presentation (40 mins) プレゼンテーション（４０分）

発表の言語: English 英語

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発表の要約: Virtual Exchanges afford EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students an opportunity to experience authentic communication with peers in other countries. Using Moodle as its platform, the International Virtual Exchange Project (IVE Project) is one such exchange that, through two eight-week exchanges annually, aims to promotes cultural understanding and the development of English language skills. In 2020, over 7000 tertiary-level students from twelve countries participated in multiple activities to promote communication. One of the core activities is focused-group discussions where students interact with 10-20 students from either different countries or different parts of their own country. However, with hundreds of such groups, manually monitoring the forum communication can be challenging. To aid the IVE Project administrators, a Moodle reporting tool was created to provide more in-depth quantitative forum metrics than given by the standard Moodle forum report. Examples of data provided include conversation depth, the number of inactive group members, the number of discussion starters that have received a reply, and the amount of multimedia used. This data is useful for assessing the level of engagement by the participants, and can be used to quickly discover underperforming groups and redistribute the participants to active groups. This presentation will introduce this new Moodle reporting system and discuss its expected future role in the management of the IVE Project. The presentation will conclude with information on how teachers, at no cost, can enroll their students in the IVE Project and have their students participate in a constructive cross-cultural dialogue.