Category Archives: Teaching

3 Effective ways to create a grammar lesson plan for beginner students

A grammar lesson plan for beginner students

Teaching a beginner-level class can be exciting and challenging. Moreover, students often prefer using a free grammar checker tool when it comes to grammar since they are unsure of this area. Teaching grammar becomes even more tedious if you teach students who are not from English background or are entirely new to the language. Grammar tends to…

Why is rapid elearning development more important than ever before?

Why is rapid elearning development more important than ever before?

The ripple effect of globalization and the unprecedented technological and digital advancement have changed the complexion of many realms. It has opened the floodgate of opportunity to decrease training cost, revamp the productivity at the workplace, and practical and faster delivery of content to delight numerous learners across the length and breadth of the globe.…

3 Strategies to develop effective distance learning services

3 STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE DISTANCE LEARNING SERVICES

Education sector has seen a drastic change in recent years. Learners and instructors have switched from brick and mortar classes to virtual learning classrooms. Moreover, learners globally can access quality courses from distance learning services. Distance learning allows the learners to take up their degrees and diplomas from their comfort zone. Moreover, with distance education, learners…

Why distance learning services is a better option for learners

WHY DISTANCE ELEARNING SERVICES IS A BETTER OPTION FOR LEARNERS

The internet has blurred the line between near and far. Distance elearning services have made learning possible from the comfort of homes. Distance education is not a supplement to learning but a different platform that allows learners to learn remotely. It has opened up possibilities for other age groups to begin or continue their education. Many institutions…

Effective teaching strategies: Towards student-centred learning

Effective teaching strategies Towards student-centred learning

There are various teaching strategies that can enhance learning, but the broad list is mainly divided into teacher-centred and student-centred learning. The former is a teaching method that puts the teacher at the fore of the teaching process. The latter presupposes a teaching method that concentrates on bringing out the students’ abilities. It is called student-centred because…

5 Steps for effective teaching

5 steps for effective teaching

Effective teaching is all about passing knowledge through an education system, and teachers are the tools that disseminate that knowledge to the intended audience – the students – through the teaching process. Unfortunately, most teachers lack the basic teaching skills. Professors often use complex materials to teach their students, create a scary environment for their…

The role of information technology in education: Part 2

Read the first part here. The dialectics of information technology: Some lessons and references The development if IT, drawing reference from my personal experiences and research studies, has benefitted education in no small way. With more powerful modeling software and applications along with mobile devices such as tablet, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and laptops becoming more…

An outline of Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development

An outline of Piaget’s four stages of development in concept for cognitive development

A greater percentage of teachers’ activities in the class depends on the cognitive abilities of the students; teachers devote most of their time towards ensuring that the students have mentally understood the new information passed to them. In order to enhance this student-teacher relationship, Jean Piaget, a child psychologist, has described four stages of cognitive…

Understanding the sociology of scientific knowledge

Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

Enhancing the acquisition of the knowledge of science has been for long a concern of educationists. The issue has been investigated from different perspectives. One of the most recent, which this paper explores, is a modern linguistic approach that views scientific knowledge as a representation of social reality; thus, understanding this knowledge should be based…

Learning and teaching online

Learning and teaching online

There are numerous definitions of online learning in the literature, definitions that reflect the diversity of practice and associated technologies. Carliner (1999) defines online learning as educational material that is presented on a computer. Khan (1997) defines online instruction as an innovative approach to delivering instruction to a remote audience, using the Web as the…