Icelandic Online for advanced student accessible on smart devices
A new part of Icelandic online for advanced students has been made accessible on smart devices. This part of the course focuses on more complex vocabulary and cultural literacy.
Icelandic Online comprises six web courses for advanced students. The first course was launched in 2004 and the sixth one in 2013. Icelandic Online for children was also launched recently. The courses are designed for self-study and are open to all. The courses are not only used for self-study. but also in connection with courses in Icelandic at the University of Iceland and international universities teaching modern Icelandic.
Courses for adults have systematically been adapted to smart devices. Funding received last year made it possible to transfer Icelandic Online 5, the final part, into a new environment and the work was completed this spring. The course is divided into thirteen different chapters each containing a lecture, diverse texts from Icelandic media and literature, as well as numerous exercises working with relevant words and phrases. Emphasis is placed on expanding the students' vocabulary in Icelandic as a second language and cultivating their cultural literacy.
Icelandic Online 5 was originally a collaborative project between the study programme Icelandic as a Second Language at the University of Iceland, the Centre for Research in the Humanities, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, University of Bergen and University of Helsinki. The Icelandic State Broadcasting Service, and numerous authors contributed to the project, which has also received funding from the Nordplus sprog programme and the University of Iceland Academic Affairs Fund. Olga Holownia, Daisy L. Neijmann and Jón Karl Helgason are the authors of the original material but the transfer into the new environment was in the hands of Úlfur Alexander Einarsson, Lovísa Helga Jónsdóttir and María-Carmela Raso, under the supervision of Daisy and Jón Karl. Work on the transfer was funded by the University of Iceland's Centennial Fund.
