Innovation in Language Learning

Learner-centered education aims at developing learner’s autonomy and independence by putting the learning path in his hands. To do so, the teaching process needs to create an environment where the student will discover and strengthen his skills. In this environment the student is led to an independent problem solving and a lifelong learning. He is self-motivated, active and chooses what to learn, where and when.

At the same time, as the focus of instruction has shifted from the teacher to the student, the role, duty and task of the teacher has changed: he is not just an expert who transfers knowledge and facts anymore; he is a facilitator who focuses on the whole class results, as well as on every single student’s performance.

What happens when learner-centered education meets new technologies and digital communication?

The ability to effectively integrate with no effort and time wasting ICT and learning is now a resource for a higher quality teaching in the classroom.

The class has become digital, hypermedia, cooperative, project-based, interactive… It is now focused on student’s learning experience and on teacher’s need to monitor his progress and adapt his intervention to it.

As teachers, at Edilingua, we were dreaming of an enjoyable, motivating and effective teaching and learning process; of tools able to make students more independent, aware of their own learning path and always “on time” with assignments because free to study everywhere; we wanted a teacher involved in more creative activities, free from long homework corrections and therefore more focused on student’s need.

So we had an idea! i-d-e-e, a platform that brings together a wide range of different educational technologies for teachers and students in a single learning environment.

What does i-d-e-e offer and why?

To students, the platform offers a didactics more and more fitting to their reality; cooperative and self-learning materials for the class; immediate feedback on exercises with automatic correction; progress monitoring through learning analytics that encourage both reflection and active responsibility for their own learning.

With i-d-e-e, administrators manage all aspects of the learning process; identify classes where results are above average and whose teachers could be professional resources for others.

As a LMS, i-d-e-e provides teachers with several digital tools for better educational choices, among which learning analytics, which we consider an essential tool: it leads to a better understanding of the teaching and learning process, while showing whether students are on the right track or in need of our intervention.