$3,800 USD to Rescue a Cat in China

First off let me say I’m a cat lover. And a dog lover. But this English teacher goes one step further. She was teaching English in China and adopted a stray cat. Then she spent £2,500 (about $3,800 USD) to take it back to the UK when she left the […]


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Why MOOCs Fail

A recent article in the New York Times has highlighted a number of disturbing statistics that shake the current craze for those free online educational courses known as MOOCs. Basically put, an appalling number of students are dropping out. MOOCs are being abandoned in droves. But why is this happening […]


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This Will Revolutionize Teaching

For years they’ve been telling us that new technology will revolutionize teaching. First it was film. Then radio. Then TV. Then video. Then computers. Then MOOCs… And they were wrong. Wrong every time. Wrong all the time. In this insightful video from Derek Muller he explains that the reason why […]


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TOEIC Suspended in the UK After Scam

The UK government has suspended all TOEIC testing in the UK after a TV investigation showed how the system was riddled with fraud with fake sitters taking the test on behalf of English language students. The investigation by Panorama (a respected BBC investigative program) uncovered how immigrants to the UK […]


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TEFL to Blind & Visually Impaired Students

This article looks at a few ideas you should bear in mind if you have blind or visually impaired students in your TEFL class. Over the years we at IWeb TEFL have had a number of blind and visually impaired teacher trainees taking our course and we have worked with […]


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