Includes bibliographical references.

E-VOLLution: Introduction / Anthony Fitzpatrick and Robert O’Dowd

Chapter 1 – What’s VOLL got to do with it? Sociocultural perspectives on ICT in language learning / Andreas Lund

Chapter 2 – Digital media, Web 2.0 and process-oriented language production / Bernd Rüschoff

Chapter 3 – How Web 2.0 technology has changed the parameters for (web) publishing / Bernard Moro

Chapter 4 – Telecollaboration: online interaction and collaboration in VOLL contexts / Robert O’Dowd

Chapter 5 – VOLL, the social web and teacher training / Kerstin Namuth

Chapter 6 – Data-driven learning (online research) / Irina Smoliannikova

Case studies

Case Study 1 – Intercultural collaborative learning: creating and marketing an EFL online application / Kosmas Vlachos, Hellenic Open University, Greece, Aušra Netikšienė, Vilnius College of Higher Education, Lithuania, and Pilar Concheiro, Reykjavik University, Iceland

Case Study 2 – Learning through blogging: a case study with business Spanish students at Reykjavik University / Pilar Concheiro, Reykjavik University, Iceland

Case Study 3 – Riga-Durham webinar on using Smartboard technology in VOLL / Steve Mulgrew, University of Nottingham, and Natalja Cigankova, University of Latvia

Case Study 4 – Evaluation, testing and assessment / Anthony Fitzpatrick with Inge-Anna Koleff, Verband Wiener Volkshochschulen, Manfred Thönicke, Hamburger Institut für Berufliche Bildung – HIBB, Germany

'This publication is targeted at: VOLL trainers in vocational schools, adult and continuing education, universities of applied sciences and in-company training. Multipliers as trainers of the above-mentioned groups; Teacher trainers in educational training establishments, and HR staff in charge of in-company (language) training; E_VOLLUTION looks at the basic e-skill which 21st century workers need: strategies for effective online research, the ability to evaluate and use online sources of information; the ability to create multimodal content like presentation and learning materials, the ability to use traditional tools such as e-mail as well as Web 2.0 applications such as blogs, wikis, videoconferences and social networks for effective cooperation and collaboration in VOLL contexts. For further information and materials relating to this publication, visit the website http://www.ecml.at/projects/voll.'' (Publisher's Website)