Michael Handford, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Office of International Exchange in the School of Languages, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK. He taught at the University of Tokyo in Japan for 10 years and has extensive experience in cross-cultural studies, discourse analysis, corpus expertise and international affairs.
Recently, Professor Handford was invited to our university for a week of short-term lectures, some of which were arranged in our newly built Netflix Classroom. The Netflix Classroom is a smart classroom, also known as an intelligent classroom, where Professor Handford's lecture involved the content of the corpus and required the use of electronic devices to interact with students simultaneously, so the arrangement of the classroom once became a headache for everyone. With the help of the school's e-learning center, we were fortunate enough to be the first users of the newly built Netflix Classroom.
The tables and chairs in the classroom can be flexibly adjusted according to the content and classroom tasks, either in group listening mode or in group task mode, splitting and combining at will, providing hardware to expand teacher-student interaction and student-student interaction. This provides hardware support to expand teacher-student interaction and student-student interaction, which greatly enhances teaching effectiveness. In the class, Professor Handford uses the electronic whiteboard to demonstrate the courseware, and students use the question-answering device to make their own choices on the questions. The International Course in the Netflix Classroom has actually achieved the expected Netflix effect and has been well received by everyone for the expected interaction and effect of the course!
(Reported by the College of Foreign Languages office; Translated by Li Huixian)
