Coaching connected learning across borders
I can support learning in online and blended course development (often through EU projects)
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Varied experience with Nordplus, Erasmus+ and its predecessors
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Latest posts
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Goodbye home country
The growing migrant crisis in Europe reminds me of an earlier wave. In the early 80s I was a teacher at a local vocational college in central Wales and as part of the enrichment programme, had offered to set up a student newspaper. In amongst the make-up tips and rockband tributes, I was offered a…
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Learning: rule-driven or curiosity-driven?
I have noticed that there are basically two types of learning and these are either rule-driven or curiosity-driven. Most learning in our education systems seems to be rule-driven and failure in this type of learning happens when the student does not know (or ignores) the rules. My daughter asked me to take a look at a…
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M-HOUSE: YouTube intros
Once all the piloting is done, the M-HOUSE project intends to make its course materials freely available. One of the constant elements in each of the 8 modules is a video introduction. The course modules are shown in the table below and where the module title is linked this leads to that module’s intro video.…
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Intercultural design-thinking online
I carried out an experiment recently to see if I could carry out a design thinking process in a live online session. The problem I wanted to work on was a humanitarian one but presented under an intercultural lens. I was invited to dialogue with Franklin Yartey’s students at Dubuque University in Iowa, who contacted…
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IELTS nuts and bolts
While it may be very exciting to hear about new tech applications or about initiatives in far-flung parts of the world or even about ground-breaking pedagogical approaches, there will always be a place for learning more about the bread and butter of TEFL, ie teaching English, or, in this case, preparing students for a very…
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Content as launch pad?
A conversation I need to practice is the one about interaction in online courses being key. I obviously have not yet got it right because I too often end up in the position where I appear to be downgrading the importance of content. How does this happen? I am not sure, but it seems that…
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Not just language
While mobile devices are frowned on in some contexts, in others they are the ONLY option for delivering learning. Mike Solly from the UK’s Open University described how migrant workers from Bangladesh spend long periods, usually in the Middle East but also South Korea and elsewhere, working to send remittances to their family. However, they are…
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Is M-HOUSE a CLIL course?
Adult CLIL in practice from annefox.eu At our very first meeting of the M-HOUSE project when the partners were discussing the detail of how we were going to offer a course in transferring household skills into a business context, one of the partners observed that a selling point would be that it would improve your…
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Implementing mobile
It is getting harder to find How To sessions devoted to specific digital tools at IATEFL compared to previous years. I guess that this is because digital tools are becoming more mainstream. So the mood is moving more towards implementation at an institutional level. The good people at The Consultants-E, Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly…
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Edge of Chaos
Who wouldn’t go to a session entitled ‘Teaching at the Edge of Chaos’? Sugata Mitra caused a furore at the end of last year’s IATEFL by suggesting that teachers are not needed (Is there a way of taking teachers out of the equation?) and that they in fact get in the way of learning. So…