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Cleve Miller is back in action with a newly designed website called English 360. He and his team are based in Miami and are involved in language teaching and training, consulting, and developing software (they’re hiring too).

I’ve been having a lot of fun experimenting with podcasting over at English Conversations with my friend and colleague, Mark White. We recently recorded a 15-min interview (mp3), in which Mark shares a teaching technique he developed to get his Japanese students talking with one another and using their imaginations. [...]

I’ve seen some recent posts on the topic of Moodle incorporating weblog features into its smorgasbord of options, and a discussion thread on whether or not this is a good idea. The root of the issue lies in the fundamental distinction between centralized and decentralized models of learning online, what Siemens calls a [...]

The tagline at Dekita.org reads ‘P2P learning in EFL/ESL’. The topic also came up in our discussion at the Tapped In Summer Festival session on Blogstreams Salon just now. And when we talk about P2P learning, we’re speaking of any form of networked communication founded on the free and open participation of peers [...]

Bee and I are taking part in the TappedIn Summer Festival on July 20th, entitled Creating Connections Through Collaboration, where we will be sharing our ideas on webpublishing and P2P learning in EFL/ESL. We’ll talk about what we’re doing with Rudolf over at Dekita.org and the chats we have at Blogstreams Salon each [...]

Nathan just clued me into Stephen Downes‘ latest post entitled, Are the Basics of Instructional Design Changing? Downes writes:
The communications approach presupposes (at least in part) that there is some entity, a ‘teacher’, in whom the knowledge resides; the process of learning is therefore a facilitation of channels of communication between teacher and learner [...]