IATEFL and TESOL colleagues,

Online education is bringing more potential value to the practice
of conducting formal L2 student performances to a wider audience
than the class, so student-generated content and performances in EFL
may be promising areas for future experimentation and research.

In the U.S. the Sloan Consortium of "organizations committed to
quality online education" has taken up EFL practices here in Japan:

Podcasting Student Performances to Develop EFL Skills - SloanCWiki
Categories: Effective Practices by College | Student-Generated Content
http://www.sloan-c-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Podcasting_Student_Performances\
_to_Develop_
EFL_Skills

Incidentally, a new article emphasizing intercultural communication
in e-learning and TEFL is tentatively available as follows:

"Japanese Learning Styles in Cross-Cultural Online Education"
SIETAR Europa Magazine, Issue 3: Global Learning Styles (2007).
SIETAR Germany: Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=djszdhm_30fm2vx7

Collegially, Steve McCarty
Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
President, World Association for Online Education (1998-2007)
Online library: http://www.waoe.org/steve/epublist.html
Mobile phone site (worldwide access, please sign the Guestbook):
http://winksite.com/waoe/mall
YouTube Educational Group (discuss and contribute videos):
http://www.youtube.com/group/educational