Learning Design Review Work with us to build more inclusive and effective learning products and systems and bring positive change to the worlds of education and work To make an inclusive, effective, standout learning experience – that actually does what you want it to – you must go beyond content creation! At LearnJam we review … Read more
When I saw the word “fun” in the title of this year’s Innovate conference, I’ll admit I was skeptical. It reminded me of an article I’d read a few months previously entitled, ‘Millennials Don’t Want Fun; They Want You To Lead Better’, which got me thinking: if we replaced ‘millennials’ with ‘students’ and ‘lead’ with ‘teach’, would that be a fair reflection of the needs of our students today? Moreover, could we extend this viewpoint to incorporate teachers, namely that they also don’t want fun at conferences, and instead want their practices to be challenged?
Following Tim’s recent post on bots and their potential application in ELT, and after our own foray into the world of bots with our Ame product, we decided it was time to do another ELTjam review, this time of the recently launched Duolingo Language Bots.
Philip Kerr takes a look at the video-based language learning platform, FluentU.
This app is both my dream and my nightmare. I love learning languages, and anything that enables me to understand and communicate in more of them is a fantastic tool. On the other hand, if tools like this get too good, my life’s work (as a creator of English language courses and resources) – and my future income – will be wiped out with a few swipes of a touchscreen.
IELTS Skills is the award winning app from Macmillan, helping learners with skills and techniques necessary for achieving high scores in all four papers of the academic IELTS exam. The app goes into detail about what to expect in the exam, helps improve necessary skills and gives tips and guidance to help learners on the day they … Read more
Writing for a Purpose is a collaboration between the British Council and Coventry University aimed at improve the writing skills of English Language learners heading to an English-medium university, specifically those in the UK. The project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, focuses particularly on the different types of academic writing that students … Read more
Lexicum is an app designed to help “the 1.5 billion learners around the world with mastering foreign language vocabulary”. It sets itself apart from repeating a word (“boring and ineffective”), personal vocabulary books (restrictive in terms of the order in which the words can be reviewed) and other flashcard apps (they don’t help you learn … Read more
Managing Education in the Digital Age Choosing, setting up and running successful online courses Andy Hockley and Fiona Thomas Smashwords Edition The Round Increasing numbers of educators are interested in teaching online. What does setting up an online teaching operation involve for the various stakeholders? For anyone interested in the answer to this question, this … Read more
Lingua.ly offers learners an opportunity to look up and save words they come across when reading online articles in another language and then recommends relevant texts for the learners to read in order to extend their vocabulary and improve their reading skills. Users can click on any word in an article they are reading online and, after … Read more
Most of you will already be familiar with Voxy, indeed it’s not the first time that they’ve been mentioned here on ELTjam. But as we have developed a new system for reviewing EdTech products, we thought it would be nice to run their language learning tool through and see what came out. Voxy launched in 2010 … Read more
It’s Manhattan, or somewhere similar, and the James Bond style music plays loudly as we cut from a cityscape to a young woman, dressed in black, walking up an outdoor staircase and into a rooftop apartment. We see that her hands are bloody as she opens the metal flight case she’s carrying. We watch as … Read more
As the dash towards digital becomes ever more frenzied, so Scoop It and other ‘curating’ (how I loathe that term!) mechanisms become ever more clogged with uncritical propaganda bombarding decent teachers with endless things that we’re all supposed to be keeping up with if we are to survive as teachers in the 21st century . … Read more
Hello there – Welcome to Hugh’s Reviews. This is the first in a series of posts that aim to explore and consider a range of different tech tools and sites aimed at ELT practitioners and at EFL students. As the number of such things seems to increase exponentially week on week, it becomes ever harder … Read more
You’ve probably heard the old adage, ‘less is more’. But how does this apply to learning design and content development? How might we go against our instinct to keep adding?
How might we best leverage video to create an active learning experience? In this post, we combine our learning design experience and expertise with Creative Listening’s, a video production company with more than 12 years’ experience.
CASE STUDIES Inner Ambitions Enabling better conversations about race and racism at work through interactive, reflective online courses that promote sustainable behaviour change Inner Ambitions provide programmes that support businesses in creating an environment where all employees can grow, thrive and make a lasting contribution towards business success. Website Challenge What do workplace learning and … Read more
CASE STUDIES Faraday Helping a purpose-driven start-up to develop a set of key learning principles and lesson content, aimed at widening access to trade apprenticeships. Faraday backs hard-working people pursuing careers in critical industries with training, career placement, and mentorship. Website Project purpose Faraday was founded by Alex Coleman, who had grown up in a … Read more
CASE STUDIES Kognity Defining a set of guiding learning principles and creating a learning design system to help an edtech organisation adopt a progressive new approach. Founded in Sweden, Kognity was designed to redefine the traditional textbook and supercharge the learning process as we know it. Today, Kognity is loved by thousands of students, in hundreds … Read more
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