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Changes in language learning for busy adults

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Limited time and access: I’m lucky that I live in London, where it wasn’t too hard to find somewhere I could enrol in a Greek course, and that my work allows me the flexibility to work from home when required to ensure I can get to class on time! In other cases, materials might be at the wrong level or even just plain boring.

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Changes in language learning for busy adults

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Limited time and access: I’m lucky that I live in London, where it wasn’t too hard to find somewhere I could enrol in a Greek course, and that my work allows me the flexibility to work from home when required to ensure I can get to class on time! In other cases, materials might be at the wrong level or even just plain boring.

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Why I’m a pen-and-paper girl

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I’m learning Greek at the moment and during class I take notes in a little reporter’s notebook with a black biro. But each week, as well as doing my (necessarily handwritten) homework, I also write up my class notes in my ‘best’ A4 notebook.

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Lessons from Jamie's Dream School

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Lesson 1: Practical learning beats theoretical learning hands-down One of the girls, loitering in the corridor rather than stick out the end of the history lesson, said that it wasn’t as good as the other classes because it wasn’t practical enough.

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Learning about learning | Good To Great

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2 Responses to Learning about learning anniems1 | September 14, 2010 at 4:30 am | Reply I have taught online classes for several years at a community college. ← Escape to the sun Can e-learning emulate an engaging classroom experience? → Like Be the first to like this post.

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What characterises good e-learning?

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This could be through an active discussion board of peers, or an individual media application that can be manipulated with different choices (I’m thinking specifically of the flash programs for my students that allows them to manipulate variables in ‘experiments’ online then post their results to our class forum).

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#EDCMOOC: being human – reasserting the human

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He concludes that humanity is artifice, not least because there has always been ambiguity and shifting ideas about where the line is drawn between humans and non-humans, because there is such diversity in the physical and mental qualities that might define us as humans, and because not everything about us is necessary for us to be classed as human.