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HR Trends & Insights, Learning & Development
5 tips to boost professional engagement in language courses
Jun
Increasing professional engagement in training doesn’t have to be difficult. See 5 tips that can help L&D in this challenge.
Mar
Voxy’s Chief Education Officer, Dr. Katie Nielson, was interviewed by Trainingindustry.com and featured in a recent article about workplace language learning at scale.
Educational Technology, HR Trends & Insights, Learning & Development, News
A New Level of Personalized Language Learning: Introducing the Needs Analysis
Jan
Voxy’s Needs Analysis brings personalized learning to every learner and paints a clearer picture of a user’s current English language proficiency and goals by drawing upon machine learning to provide targeted recommendations from over 20,000+ pieces of instructional content and live instruction.
Learning & Development
Unintended Consequences: Is Digital Collaboration Actually Impeding Language Learning Outcomes?
Sep
Dr. Katie Nielson, Voxy’s Chief Education Officer, asks if online collaboration may in fact be an impediment to achieving language learning outcomes. With the recent proliferation of online learning, it’s a fascinating question for anyone in education or corporate learning and development. Read this article recently published in Language Magazine.
Jul
Voxy’s Dr. Katie Nielson recently wrote an op-ed that was published by The 74, an online education-focused publication. Dr. Nielson takes on the very timely challenge of educating young recent immigrants in English. Here is a short excerpt: Like any student group with additional needs, English learners can achieve academically with access to sufficient resources …
Dec
Even for the most advanced English learners, there’s one skill area that often goes neglected in both classroom and online settings: writing. Improving one’s writing skills is incredibly difficult and requires consistent practice—especially in a second language—so learners tend to shy away from tackling it head on. Yet for English learners who need to use …
HR Trends & Insights, Industries
By the numbers: Meeting global demand for a growing maritime industry
Dec
Global demand for maritime workers has grown by 45% since 2005. And with increasing demand, HR professionals are facing greater hiring challenges, especially when onboard communication is of critical importance. Forty percent of all ship accidents are caused by communication factors, which means the need for English proficiency among crews has never been more important. …
Educational Technology, Learning & Development
Research review: Online versus face-to-face learning outcomes
Dec
In a comprehensive investigation of online and traditional face-to-face learning outcomes, the U.S. Department of Education released one of the first major reports to take a close look at the effectiveness of each approach. The analysis revealed that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. While this is certainly good news for online learning, the results are not as clear-cut as they may seem. To help break it down, we’re sharing summaries of three key findings from the study.
Nov
In this two-part blog series, we’re sharing our best practices to design and launch an effective English training program for your team. Now that you’ve established what your organization needs and how you’ll measure the results, it’s time to consider the learning program itself in more detail. At the core of every Voxy course is …