Connecting Graduate Students across the World with Research Web-Conferences

Autor/in	Al-Jarf, Reima Saado
Titel	Connecting Graduate Students across the World with Research Web-Conferences
Quelle	6 (2018) 5, S.115-124 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2321-2454
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Graduate Students; Student Attitudes; Videoconferencing; Internet; Seminars; Linguistics; Majors (Students); Online Searching; Research Skills; Language Research; Computer Mediated Communication; Conferences (Gatherings); Training; Cost Effectiveness; Educational Benefits; Australia; United Kingdom; United States; Saudi Arabia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Schülerverhalten; Seminar; Linguistik; Online-Recherche; Forschungsleistung; Sprachforschung; Computerkonferenz; Ausbildung; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Bildungsertrag; Australien; Großbritannien; USA; Saudi-Arabien
Abstract	This article describes a series of training web-conferences in which graduate students majoring in linguistics in Australia, UK, USA and Saudi Arabia participated. The web-conferences aimed at developing graduate students' electronic searching skills in linguistics, to introduce them to latest trends and developments in linguistic research, and to communicate with expert linguists worldwide. They were initiated, organized and hosted by the Saudi Linguists' Society (SAL) created a Saudi graduate student studying in the UK Since SAL has a limited budget, free web-conferencing software, such as PalTalk, Skype, How-to Geek and WEbex, were tried out. Graduate students could register in the web-conferences for free. SAL's web-conferencing coordinator who was a graduate student in Australia invited the speakers, selected the web-conferencing theme, prepared the web-conference poster, announced them in the SAL website and on its Facebook page, scheduled them, and registered the participants. Steps in preparing for and conducting the training web-conferences are given. Participants' views on the benefits and shortcomings of training web-conferences are reported. Recommendations for conducting effective training web-conferences and for extending free web-conferencing and webinar tools to other educational settings in Saudi Arabia are given. In general, the participants found the training web-conferences cost-effective and beneficial. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01