{"id":15226,"date":"2011-02-16T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=15226"},"modified":"2011-02-16T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:02:18","slug":"middlebury-college-takes-language-program-online-for-younger-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/02\/16\/middlebury-college-takes-language-program-online-for-younger-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlebury College takes language program online for younger students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ctl00_pContentPlaceHolder_ctl03_MainHeading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thejournal.com\/articles\/2011\/02\/16\/middlebury-college-takes-language-program-online-for-younger-students.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Middlebury College takes language program online for younger students<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from The Journal by Dian Schaffhauser<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">In a Web 2.0 world the drill and practice that makes up much of the  standard fodder for many online language courses seems quaint. But a  start-up promises to immerse high school students online in the same way  that certain successful programs do face to face through video, audio,  and avatars plunked down into foreign settings. <a href=\"http:\/\/thejournal.com\/articles\/2011\/02\/16\/Middlebury%20Interactive%20Languages\" target=\"_blank\">Middlebury Interactive Languages<\/a> is a joint venture announced in April 2010 between renowned language institute Middlebury College and K12,  a company that operates online learning programs for K-12 worldwide. In  January 2011 the venture launched its first offerings for Spanish and  French, which will be available for fall 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middlebury College takes language program online for younger students &#8212; from The Journal by Dian Schaffhauser In a Web 2.0 world the drill and practice that makes up much of the standard fodder for many online language courses seems quaint. But a start-up promises to immerse high school students online in the same way that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,289,62],"tags":[4,599,601],"class_list":["post-15226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k-12-related","category-languages-and-translation","category-online-learning","tag-k-12","tag-languages","tag-online-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15227,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226\/revisions\/15227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}