Jeff Magoto

Jeff Magoto (BA, MA, Ohio University) is the director of the Yamada Language Center and the World Language Academy at the University of Oregon. His interests are educational technology, less commonly taught languages, and program design and administration. For the past 20 years, he has trained graduate students and faculty in the US and overseas in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and other aspects of instructional technology. He was instrumental in the 2002 establishment of the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the UO. Recent conference/workshop presentations include “Computer Mediated Communication and Self-Directed Language Learning: Increasingly a Happy Marriage,” “Flash-Based Speech Applications for Blackboard,” “Speech Applications in Higher Education”, and “A National Virtual Language Lab.”