User:Vances

Vance Stevens has worked in CALL (computer-assisted language learning) for 40 years. He recently moved to Malaysia to practice eLearning via Learning2gether.net, a project which he founded in 2009 and which has hosted almost 400 podcasts. Vance worked previously in UAE for 20 years as university level teacher of EFL and academic computing, CALL coordinator and materials developer, consultant in developing a Military Language Institute, and EFL teacher coordinator. He has served as TESOL-sponsored Electronic Village Online coordinator since 2003, after starting Webheads in Action in 2002, and has more recently conceived and co-moderated several EVO sessions, including “Multiliteracies,” which started in 2004 as a course in the TESOL Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program, became an EVO session in 2009, and morphed into an EVO session that ran through 2013 as MultiMOOC. In 2015 Vance conceived and has since co-moderated EVO Minecraft MOOC, an EVO session that introduces teachers experientially to gamification. Vance is on the editorial board of CALL Journal and also serves on the executive board of APACALL. He has been editor of the On the Internet column for TESL-EJ since 2003. He archives his numerous publications and presentations at http://vancestevens.com/papers/.