I think we can all agree on this definition:
Everything that is invented, build, manufactured is made with a certain purpose in mind. If this thing does not serve the purpose it is broken.
A car is made to bring you from A to B. If the car does not serve this purpose anymore, it is broken.
A [...]

As I am very busy building the walls of the E-Teachers Academy I am abit behind schedule with bringing you the news about the websites I observe.
So in the next couple of days I try to catch up a bit. Lets start with the new Myngle Affiliate Program.
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As you might know already: eduFire is famous for using guerilla marketing strategies to spread the word about their platform. With the recent implementation of two little buttons they help you, the teacher, to spread the news about your courses on two of the biggest social networks on the net: facebook and Twitter.
And there is [...]

Yesterday I attended a class of Vikrama Dhiman about the new Learning Request System from WiZiQ, so basically about how to find students on this platform.
Although the audio was not very good I think I understood the idea .
And did you notice: they changed the new logo back to the old color scheme. Well [...]

When I am browsing the forums of education platforms I come across one idea between online teachers from time to time. It has something to do with evolution. Basically they say that online teaching has to be radically different from what we teachers did up to now. No more text books. Everything must be interactive [...]

No, I did not change the topic of this blog from online education to ornithology. This is more like one of these psychological tests in women’s magazines “Which animal are you?”.
Infact, it is a metaphor I made up from a blog post in the Myngle forum about the new visibility of “old” teachers due to [...]

Since my presentation on the eduConference of eduFire.com about “Turning Teachers into Rockstars” I have been thinking about this picture. The more I thought about it, the more I found out that this is indeed a very good picture of what an online teaching carreer might look like.
So I decided to make a “documentary” about [...]

Shall you convert your offline students to online students? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages?
I came across this question in a community forum of an online teaching platform. The biggest problem of those platforms seems to be: How to get paying students. Interesting enough most of these platforms have no solution to this [...]

You have a student who wants to learn English with you. Normally, you would go to your car, drive through the town, get into traffic jams, arrive too late, spent money on fuel, loose time on the way…
Now imagine this. You have a student who wants to learn English with you. You get yourself a [...]