Virtual Classroom vs Skype / VoIP only – Round #2
2) More control For better or for worse, in a virtual classroom the teacher has more control over what students look at and sees how they interact with their peers, the chat and with the learning...
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4) Greater availability Some countries ban Skype (i.e. UAE), some learners prefer MSN or Yahoo and many companies do not allow Skype for security reasons. (Giselle Santos, AmericanTeacher, Heike Philp)...
View ArticleWhy Live Lessons are FNACs
After more than two years I think it is time to face the fact that live online lessons are FNACs (Feature not a Company). There are a couple of reasons for this as well as facts and figures which...
View Articlereview:ed Episode #5 with Shiv Rajendran
In this episode of review:ed I had the pleasure to talk with Shiv Rajendran, Director at LanguageLab.com who is a well- known guest on my various shows. We talked about Pearson & Ning, Babbel &...
View ArticleBeing at home for the X-Files – Is Live still Relevant?
Remember Dana Scully and Fox Mulder? We did not want to miss one single episode back then so we had to rush home and sit in front of our TV. Maybe, you even scheduled family meetings based on the fact...
View ArticleReview:ed 2010 – July to September
The third quarter of 2010 started with the sale of eduFire to Camelback Education which led to various posts on the business model of live lessons itself and the question if those platforms and...
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