A blended approach to interpreter education : online and onsite learning activities in concert

Radanović Felberg, Tatjana (author), Skaaden, Hanne (author)

After a brief description of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Public Sector Inter-preting (PSI) at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, its overall structure and the rationale behind the choice of a blended approach model in interpreter education, this chapter examines the didactics of selected learning activities that illustrate the BA’s overall experiential-dialogical approach towards learning. The analysis of the didactic experiences is presented, and different factors that necessitate the chosen approach are discussed: some of them pertain to inher-ent didactic aspects (e.g., who are the students in terms of age, gender, previous education, and language background, and what do they need to learn?) or to broader societal perspectives, such as societal and systemic factors that are ad-vancing or inhibiting the development of interpreter education. Against this background, the main part of the chapter focuses on organised collaborative learning activities, specifically a) onsite role-play and b) online activities, both synchronous (chats) and asynchronous (discussions). Particular attention is given to how online and onsite activities fit together.

• Language: English
• Keywords: blended learning, interpreter education, onsite learning, online learning
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2000
• Number of pages: Str. 112-134
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-125097
• Publication date in RUL: 04.03.2021

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Teacher education for community interpreting and intercultural mediation : selected chapters
• Editors: Nike Kocijančič-Pokorn, Maurizio Viezzi, Tatjana Radanović Felberg
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete = Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts : Nacionalni inštitut za javno zdravje = National Institute of Public Health
• Year: 2020
• ISBN: 978-961-06-0402
• COBISS.SI-ID: 39104003

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• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.
• Licensing start date: 04.03.2021

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Erasmus+