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The ultimate goal of teaching is to promote learning, to create an atmosphere that fosters learning.

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Actively Learn aims at creating minds that can be beneficial to the society and contribute something for its betterment. It transforms students into critical thinkers.

"PLN (Personal Learning Networks) have grown in prominence and importance tremendously over the last few years and with good reason. They are a great way to extend your professional network beyond your physical environment and tap into a huge wealth of knowledge about your profession. This makes them one of the most effective autonomous means of developing your own teaching in a way that is most immediate and relevant to your ambitions."

"The ISTE Essential Conditions are the 14 critical elements necessary to effectively leverage technology for learning" (Essential conditions, ¶1, 2015.03.12).

"The ISTE Essential Conditions are the 14 critical elements necessary to effectively leverage technology for learning" (Essential conditions, ¶1, 2015.03.12).

The first meeting of a series of on line meetings for a professional development course for EFL teachers in the 21st Century. The program for this session: * Participants will introduce themselves to the group and interact among each other. * Presenters will be discussing the following topics: 1. Learning in the 21s century 2. Multiliteracies in the EFL class 3. What is Web 2.0? Friday March, 13th. Time in Venezuela and around the world: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=13&year=2009&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=559

English language learning (British Culture) Winner - best E-learning initiative (Yorkshire Digital Awards 2008)

Teachers you should vote for favorite #edtech20 #edtools in Learning Tools Directory 2011 make by @C4LPT . I recommand @GlogsterEdu and @SymbalooEdu

Challenging E-learning in the university. A literacies Perspective. By Robin Goodfellow and Mary R. Lea

Teammates .. collaborative learning

Teammates .. collaborative learning

Can a teacher use the same teaching techniques in a face-to-face and an online course? According to a study conducted by Park, Johnson, Vath, Kubitskey, & Fishman (2013) on Examining the Roles of the Facilitator in Online and Face-to-Face Professional Development Contexts (Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 21(2), 225-245), teachers need to cater to individual learners more online than face-to-face. In the face-to-face environments, students learn from each other and from the teacher. In the face-to-face class, the teacher is able to summarize the information for the students and get feedback from the students body language on how well they understood the information. In the online class, the teacher only knows whether the students understood or not from their writing. Teaching online requires that the teacher be very attentive and aware of the student's individual interests, needs, and level of understanding.

In July 2011, Larry shared his choices, "[starting] ...off with posts from educators" that he recommended reading, along with the comments that followed. A note at the head of points out news of update as of Sept. 2011. Thanks to Claudia for pointing this out.

Free Moodle for Teacher courses and a chance to create and teach your very own Moodle course or courses for free.

In this opinion piece, David Bornstein examined Advanced Learning Interactive Systems Online (ALISON) and found it addressed a global need for job skill development.

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