Emotional Engagement of Learners in E-leaning Environments Focused on Cultures

To what extents do English contents focused on cultures in e-learning environments make learners engaged emotionally?

  In brick and mortar classrooms, as long as the curriculum allows you to do so, you can incorporate various ways to engage your students emotionally. You can use pop songs and movies as teaching materials. In addition, you can adapt game-based learning to your teaching. You can make students choose storybooks they like and read them. They will simply like those methods because they are interesting.

  However, in e-learning environments, you should be really careful about copyright issues. It means that you can use pop songs and movies only in limited environments where the use of those materials should correspond to “fair use” of the contents. You can use pop songs and movies if your classes are Small and Limitedly Open Online Classes. However, if you consider opening a form of MOOC courses, you should be aware of copyright issues. It means in e-learning courses open to people around the world, the contents you can make use of are limited.

  Then, with which contents can you make learners engaged like ‘real’ classrooms I mentioned above? I find one answer in cultures. Everybody has his or her own culture. They have things to share, which can lead to talking with each other or posting their thoughts on online sites or SNSs. Furthermore, teachers can easily make culture-related contents relatively free of copyright issues.

  I want to measure how learners like the contents and to what extent they participate in activities of sharing in the form of written language.