The pandemic’s sweeping shutdown of college structures led quite a few districts to rapidly place up unexpected emergency digital discovering services to carry on giving lessons to students. For a lot of lecturers, learners, and people, digital discovering was a negative experience. Some experiences have linked digital finding out with […]
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‘No actual teaching’: alarm bells over online courses outsourced by Australian universities | Australian education
Students are paying thousands of dollars for online courses they believe are run by prestigious universities but have actually been outsourced to for-profit companies that use aggressive recruitment tactics and refer to students as “customers”. A Guardian Australia investigation into the tertiary education sector’s growing use of external companies to […]
Minneapolis tech company’s app optimizes foreign language learning, teaching
Even though Extempore is an app developed for foreign language learners and educators, its creators can quantify its importance with just some simple math. “Teachers have three classes of 30 students each,” said Carlos Seoane, chief executive of Extempore operator Deeloh Technologies. “That’s 90 students [they’re] teaching to. You have […]
Few speak Ojibwe as a first language. This ‘nest’ is teaching kids to in Cloquet
Persia Erdrich’s son had just turned 2 years old when he spoke his first sentence in Ojibwe. The pair were visiting the Minnesota Zoo as part of a group of babies, toddlers, parents and elders in a program to teach Ojibwe to young children and their parents. Erdrich, whose Ojibwe […]
Penn State English teaching faculty say they aren’t paid a living wage
February 27, 2023 | 8:46 AM President Bendapudi pledged to address it, but the university already broke a promise to deliver merit-based raises. Wyatt Massey/SpotlightPA Investigative Reporter Email: [email protected] Twitter: @News4Mass Focus: Penn State University Massey investigates how Penn State University […]
TESOL Program Coordinator to Receive Top Teaching Honor for English Language Educators
Friday, February 24, 2023 Drew S. Fagan, affiliate scientific professor and TESOL software coordinator at the College of Maryland University of Instruction, will acquire the prestigious 2023 TESOL Instructor of the Year Award from TESOL Global Association, the world’s greatest affiliation of English language educators. Presented by National Geographic Studying, […]