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Often it might appear like a lot isn’t going on at EnglishCentral. Nothing further from the truth. We are abuzz with conferences, training sessions, brainstorming ideas, meetings and getting out and meeting the public. Here’s a nice presentation of photos showing our staff and others in “EnglishCentral action mode”. Rest assured, we are continuously sharing […]
This past week, we held a great webinar where we collected a lot of comments about EnglishCentral from teachers using it in their schools. A big thank you to all who attended! If you didn’t attend, you can see the recording here. We’d like to extend the invitation and would love it if teachers could […]
This webinar has now been held and over. See the recording and complete a survey HERE. Thanks! We value our teachers. It’s been our priority since day 1, beta beginnings. Our top value has been to reach out and talk with the teachers using our service. I don’t know how many skype calls, phone calls, […]
I have worked with many teachers and students over the years. One fact stands first among many – those who will succeed, those who will be great teachers or students are always those who day in and day out are committed to learning or teaching. They don’t look sideways, they have tunnel vision, a vision […]
I have been excited about students using EnglishCentral since the 1st day I discovered it online. I had been looking for ways for students to upload dialogues online so teachers could listen, critique and comment. Beginnings I began using EnglishCentral with about 60 students to test its performance and functionality and I also wanted to […]
EnglishCentral is used in so many ways by so many educators. We’ve highlighted many of these ways here on the blog but one popular way is just as supplemental homework. English is a skill and just like soccer, painting or juggling – it takes hours of practice. EnglishCentral is a great big practice area. […]
We are proud of the schools and teachers using EnglishCentral around the world. Tens of thousands of teachers, thousands of schools – it’s amazing! They range from schools with thousands of students to many with just a few students – but all are equally important to us. Here is just one of those schools […]
Hi everyone! Charlie here! I’m EnglishCentral’s Chief Linguist and Pedagogy advisor and as you may or may not know, much of what we do here at EC is based on key principles and research findings in the area of second language acquisition. One of the most important ones that informs the way we implement our […]
I have finally got around to reading my copy of Clayton Christensen’s “The Innovative University“. I’ve long followed his very clear minded theory and arguments about “disruptive innovations” – watch his easy to follow description of the theory below. Basically, a disruptive innovation is a product or service that takes what was once something only […]
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