The growing trend to offer courses online (Sloan Consortium, 2004) also reached the foreign language classroom, especially in times in which enrollment for foreign language classes are declining. In addition to the many benefits of online educational settings teaching languages online poses the same challenges as content classes, but also different ones.
I propose a session in which we exchange and share ideas/experiences for online foreign language courses at high school/university level, as well as hybrid courses. I co-developed and taught two Elementary German online classes for the University of Connecticut, and I could potentially start the discussion with sharing our concepts and some practical experiences gained from developing, teaching, and revising the classes.
