Category Archives: ChinesePod

Self-direction can be learned

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Ken Carroll

This morning I addressed Dr Curt Bonk‘s class at the School of Education at Indiana University. Last year Curt published an important book on how web technologies are changing education and learning – The World is Open - in which he included reference … Continue reading →

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Connectivism squares with our experience

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Ken Carroll

This week was an exciting one for us - ChinesePod published lesson number 1,000.  Around all these learning objects we have had tens of thousands of conversation threads, questions, answers, and comments. There are some serious connections getting formed out there. Meanwhile, there is some real energy … Continue reading →

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Is ChinesePod setting industry standards?

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Ken Carroll

   There are lots of blogs on the subject of learning 2.0. They tend to focus on what is theoretically or pedagogically desirable in the New Learning, as well as the new understandings that emerge from our experience of learning on the network. This discussion remains … Continue reading →

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ChinesePod, the New York Times, and the future

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Ken Carroll

   The subject of online language learning has been in the news, particularly since Live Mocha received funding some weeks ago. Yesterday, my company, Praxis Language  appeared alongside them, in the New York Times (the same story appeared in the International Herald Tribune today).  … Continue reading →

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