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Last week I joined Kaplan’s Trending in Education Podcast to discuss Voxy’s approach to teaching English to non-native speakers, using technology to improve learning outcomes, and how applicable lessons I learned from experiences teaching english to non-native speakers might be to the broader space of online learning end education. Listen to the episode here.
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Recently, we were honored to have a delegation from the South Korean Ministry of Education at Voxy’s headquarters. Comprised of educators, ministry officials, school system administrators, and research fellows collaborating to build an online, open secondary school, it was a treat to host a workshop for the delegation on how to use technology to improve learning outcomes.
Tecnologia Educacional,Tendências & Insights Para RH
Leveraging the Benefits of Online Learning: Unveiling the Command Center
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We are excited to report that Voxy has recently released a user-friendly administrative and reporting dashboard—the Command Center—that lets our clients easily and quickly generate, sort, filter, and analyze the data produced by their students. Learn how this tool offers insight into what learners are doing to improve both immediate outcomes and future decisions and how it helps harness the potential of technology to change the way we think about language learning.
Estudos De Caso,Treinamento & Desenvolvimento
[Video] Como a TMF na América Latina está melhorando a Proficiência de Inglês de Seus Colaboradores com a Voxy
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Sonia Reiterman (HR Director at TMF) and Dr. Katie Nielson (Chief Education Office at Voxy) discuss how TMF Latin America is improving English proficiency with Voxy and how to implement an effective workplace language learning program.
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Now more than ever, the education industry is focused on “gamification,” or creating learning activities from games. But many of the things that make playing a game fun are the same factors that make language learning hard. Let’s explore several ways game and language application designers can bridge this gap.
Metodologia De Treinamento,Tendências & Insights Para RH,Treinamento & Desenvolvimento
It’s Time for Language Learning to Embrace Individualized Instruction
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We know from copious amounts of research that instruction works best when it is personal. Yet daunted at the prospect of sorting this out, many language programs revert to the outdated approach of just assigning everyone the same thing. However, maybe incorporating individualized instruction into a group curriculum isn’t as hard as it might seem.
Novidades,Tecnologia Educacional,Treinamento & Desenvolvimento
[Webinar] Como construir um programa de treinamento de idiomas eficaz no ambiente de trabalho—É mais fácil do que você imagina!
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Neste webinar, a Dra. Katharine Nielson – Diretora de Educação na Voxy – discute as melhores práticas para implementar um programa corporativo de treinamento de idiomas.
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Teaching a foreign language to first-time learners is hard. Students wonder how they can possibly language the language when they don’t know anything, and teachers grapple with speaking in the target language even when they know their students don’t fully understand. Ultimately, it comes down to setting expectations.
Metodologia De Treinamento,Treinamento & Desenvolvimento
High-Stakes Testing: Necessary but Not Sufficient
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Standardized tests have been both vilified and venerated, and despite their well-documented shortcomings, they are widely used in many high-stakes circumstances. But with the introduction of other measures of proficiency, performance, and assessment, we gain a far more robust picture of a learner’s capabilities.
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Authentic content gives learners exposure to the kind of language that they ultimately want to understand and create for themselves. If you don’t use authentic content, and teach learners with scripted dialogs or simplified materials written by language teachers, you’re not giving them models for how to produce or understand the language they’ll encounter in the wild. Not only is this ineffective, it’s also inefficient.