By Michael A. Tighe on Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:25 PM

 

 

Teaching financial experts, CLTC-C, Engine magazine, Russian Banks, Intercultural

 

 

I also especially enjoyed the presentation ‘Knowing the Client’s Needs: Teaching Financial Experts’ delivered by Gabriella Hirthe of ISD GmbH. Anyone who has taught financial experts will have noticed that Gabriella knew exactly what she was talking about when she described the peculiarities involved in teaching this p Read More »

By Michael A. Tighe on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:01 PM

Digital Publishing, free content, web 2.0, peer review, garden walls

 

This time I was, maybe naively, a little surprised at what a seemingly negative posture on web 2.0 and collaborative working DP has apparently adopted. I suppose that collaborative content creation, web 2.0/3.0 and language services like Livemocha represent such an obvious threat to the walled-garden business model of many publishers, I guess I really shouldn’t have been too astonished with this apparent posturing.

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By Michael A. Tighe on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:56 PM

Carl Dowse presents on blended learning web 2.0 f2f and Cornelsen Publishing WBTs

 

During the Sprachen und Beruf (Languages and Business) conference, I also personally met Carl Dowse, the very active blended learning expert. I had originally become virtually acquainted with Carl in the terrific business English forum started by Eric Baber to accompany this year’s IATOFEL Exeter conference. These forums were expertly moderated and gave IATOFEL members who cou Read More »

By Michael A. Tighe on Monday, April 21, 2008 6:01 PM

Quality in corporate language training: CLTC-C SKYLIGHT team

 

First day of Sprachen und Beruf, or Languages and Business, multiple virtual realities through technology and keeping track

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By Michael A. Tighe on Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:08 PM

Sprachen und Beruf: ICC survey

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