Comments on: Livemocha and Pearson Announce Partnership for Online Language Learning

By: English Training Consultants

English Training Consultants — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:57:00 +0000

Actually Livemocha’s idea for teaching via Facebook came from the teachers who teach with Voice of America’s The Classroom– because their consultants provided that idea to Live Mocha. The VOA Learning English had developed the platform. See for yourself:
https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/voalearningenglish

By: online spelling bee

online spelling bee — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:46:09 +0000

Interesting development indeed. We are starting to see start-ups injecting new ideas and fresh energy into the ESL/EFL industry. Not all of them will survive (it is a notoriously hard sector to make good money in, unless you have a network of language schools); and not all of them will advance the state of the art; but some good platforms and working practices will emerge. Livemocha, Babbel, Myngle, and a couple others are leading this new wave. I anticipate a few more later in the year (wink wink).

By: Spanish Sentences

Spanish Sentences — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:15:40 +0000

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By: AnneHwang

AnneHwang — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:26:31 +0000

Yes, Please explain more! I'd love to learn about this! A new twist to those publishing companies with online platforms. Hmm…

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:15:39 +0000

I will explain this in my next post. It's a new wave that hits the education market: publishers like Pearson, Collins and Hueber syndicate their old content to online companies. Those build new language courses on the basis of this provided content. Quite interesting.

By: AnneHwang

AnneHwang — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:19:13 +0000

What? What does all this mean? Are they developing something for students to access or for teachers to use as teaching material?

By: 英文家教

英文家教 — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:31:33 +0000

I hope we all learn something new each and everyday. It is what helps to improve who we are.

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:45:28 +0000

Hello Paul,
welcome to my blog.

If you look on most of the big players in the internet today you will see that most of them were not the first ones (Google for example – Altavista was THE thing before them).
Being Avant-Garde is nice but you need the resources to survive until the mainstream recognizes the importance of your services.
So I would be suprised if all of the language platforms would survive, too. They will be bought by their competitors which will then cut out the interesting parts (I think this will be the communities in most cases) or they will simply die in the desert.

It is already starting. Babbel bought Friendsabroad and this site will be discontinued after six month.

By: Paul Maglione

Paul Maglione — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:33:07 +0000

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:27:02 +0000

Hi Karenne,
thanks for joining the talk. Quoting Livemocha and Pearson:
“…announced today a strategic agreement to co-develop a new, direct-to-consumer, conversational English language learning experience available on Livemocha’s online platform with a global community of over two million members.”

Sounds as if they develop a new course. A good example for this is Babbel.com's new Spanish premium course. It is based on offline material but works great as an online self learning course.

And I am glad you like the template.