Digitalization of teaching Romanian language and culture in Sweden [articol]

Abstract

Sweden has already had an established experience in e-learning, so that the burst of worldwide pandemic restrictions and reformulations did not emerge as a stressful surprise. Despite the fact that Sweden did not impose facemasks and plenty of restrictions common in EU, the educational system reacted promptly to the online transfer where the case was. At Lund University there is the only Romanian Chair left in Scandinavia. For more than twenty years now, there have been used on-line platforms in teaching Romanian and they cover both e-learning and m-learning. I had the opportunity to teach using all three of them: Luvit, live@lund, and Canvas. There has been a crescendo in the communicational and IT facilities secured by these platforms. Finally, Canvas came up with numerous educational resources. Students and teachers have the possibility to generate videos and audio content, to inscribe videos with their own message, and to use this platform for unmediated communication instead of Zoom, for instance. Under these technical circumstances, communicative approach, mentoring, and negotiation were more feasible and the educational input experienced a high degree of resonance and impetus.