American Councils for International Education, one of the great nonprofits working around the globe to expand multicultural and multilingual education, recently announced the launch of the AC Research Center (ARC).…
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Category Archives: Organizational Learning
Help International Students Build Language Confidence
Universities across the world are increasing their efforts to recruit international students. They play a major role in internationalizing the campus and usually require little financial aid. Yet many higher…
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Flip Your Class for More Engagement and Less Time Wasted
In the traditional language-learning classroom, a professor might lecture or show videos, and then send students home to work things out, solve problems, and experiment. In a flipped classroom, the…
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‘How Can We Better Support English Language Learners?’ We Have a Few Ideas.
Larry Ferlazzo and Education Week took the opportunity in his Classroom Q&A blog to ask the following: What are the greatest challenges to improving ELL student achievement, and how can we…
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HR Is Going Mobile
In the Internet age, management is constantly being faced with new technologies to ameliorate the HR process. From corporate training programs to performance evaluations, online tools have surfaced to provide…
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How To Lead For Retention, Innovation, And Cooperation
Being a manager is about more than making hiring decisions and disseminating policy. Driving performance in employees is a multifaceted challenge that requires a variety of worker-facing attitudes and values…
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The ROI of Foreign Language Learning
The Economist’s Prospero blog illuminated a subject that hits close to the heart of most language learners: how much is all this work worth in the long run? Riffing on…
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Four Technology-Enabled Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Technology in the classroom can be a burden or a relief. It can be an element of fear for educators, or an instrument of success for students, faculty, and institutions…
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New Research Report Finds that Language Training Improves Job Performance
Today, Rosetta Stone announced the results of a new survey of a cross-section of the company’s 12,000 global enterprise customers. The Rosetta Stone Business Employee Use Insights Survey–released during this…
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Integrating Social Media to Prepare for the Millennial Workforce
We are on the cusp of a paradigm shift. The first-ever generation of digital natives is entering the workforce, and as millennials start filling positions at companies, some significant cultural…
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