Design and Implementation of Cloud Hosting Multimedia Website to Facilitate Autonomous ESL Learning
Jerome S. J. Teng, Pei-Ching Lan, Tung-Jung Chen, Shu-Yin Tseng · 2012
The Internet is a widely-used channel for learning and knowledge acquisition. Ubiquitous web connection can provide instant information and vast learning material. Likewise, online learning has become a crucial instrument for autonomous ESL (English as Second Language) learning. Learning methodologies, such as Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and learner autonomy, have taken advantage of modern Internet technology. In recent years, Information Technology (IT) has advanced to even more efficient operation of cloud computing and mobile Internet. The Web 2.0 and video-streaming technology have produced popular video services such as YouTube. The integration of modern Internet technology, cloud computing, Web 2.0 media, and self-directed learning of English becomes an attractive combination. This paper presents a demonstration of using cloud hosting multimedia website to facilitate the ESL learning. Advantages of cloud computing and cloud hosting are fully utilized. Since the collaborative Web 2.0 YouTube service has generated a plethora of English learning videos, the installed cloud website contains a large amount of embedded YouTube videos that exhibit rapid streaming response. With rich content and user-friendly media features, we justifiably believe that this website is an efficient model for autonomous ESL learning.