Dr. Laura L. Franklin

Dr. Laura L. Franklin is a Professor of French at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia. She is the current Vice Chair of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and elected Chair for 2009. She was awarded in 2003 the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty award. She is co-Editor of the World Languages collection of the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT). Research interests Of Dr. Franklin have included the internationalization of the curriculum, the affordances of the Open Educational Resource Movement, the role of community colleges in World Languages nationwide, and the growing need for the expansion of critical language programs.