What We Do

The first Oxford EMI Training program in Japan was held at ICU from August 20 to 24, 2018. Participants included 17 faculty members from 10 universities including ICU.

Videos of pronunciation exercises were created and published on Moodle for students to review on their own.

Calculation exercises, which are difficult to devote ample class time to, were assigned as pre-class learning material, using Cloud Campus, an application for creating online teaching material. The instructor created a video introducing an index and explaining the calculation method and data. Students watched the video before class and submitted their calculations and responded to questions on Moodle.

To further students’ understanding of particular topics, 40-minute and 20-minute online lecture was recorded on video and students were instructed to submit two questions after watching the video as an assignment. Class time was used for in-depth discussion of the topics in the online lectures.

Using Cloud Campus, an application that can record materials and audio online, students created videos outside class hours as a group activity. The videos were then uploaded to Moodle and shared with the GLAA member school DePauw University in the United States.