BYU recently published a press release on the work we have been doing in the lab I direct at BYU, the ARCLITE Lab. ARCLITE stands for Advanced Research in Curriculum for Language Instruction and Technology in Education. For sure, that is a mouthful but it is usefully descriptive.
A few days later a writer at KSL.com interviewed me on the phone, played with the software a bit, and then wrote up a nice piece that appears here. The reporter had been an LDS missionary in Japan and actually spent some time trying out the system.
I retired as a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 2016 where I was Associate Professor of French and Instructional Pyschology & Technology. I arrived there in 1992 after my retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel from a 20-year career in the US Air Force. Most of that time was spent on the faculty at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA), during what I call my first career. For over forty years I have been creating interactive video applications for supporting language. The lab at the Language Learning Center at USAFA engaged in ground-breaking efforts conducted within a mentored learning setting. The lab’s work involved the development of technologies and instructional design strategies for the use of video in the language acquisition process as well as with architectures that support online learning and facilitate learning about learning.
I have a BA in Political Science from BYU, an MBA from the University of Missouri, and a PhD in Foreign Language Education and Computer Science from The Ohio State University. At the Air Force Academy I was a key member of the team that designed what was then the largest interactive videodisc-based learning center on a college campus. When I retired from BYU I directed the ARCLITE Lab, which was involved in the creation of online learning materials for language learning as well as video and interactive technologies for learning.
