Resources for English Teachers
Vocabulary comprehension is central to YDS Exam. You can practice YDS – Vocabulary knowledge with the downloadable series below. The words in the worksheets are the most commonly used ones in the target exam.
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Online assessment or examination is central to distance education. It is one of the hot topics to be discussed by field experts as many get confused about how to evaluate and assess students’ performance in distance education programs. Institutions were thinking about innovative ways to prevent cheating as students are not physically in a classroom, which is easy to handle. Students naturally could manipulate the examination event due to being far away from the instructor and getting access to multiple
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Most prestigious universities across the world do not have distance education systems. They are partners with distance education centers as well as publishing houses and computer giants such as Microsoft. The notion of credentialing arises as a problem here. Who will provide the verified diploma? Google, for example, has great technology to provide instruction with well-known designers and academicians. The diploma issue still remains an unanswered question.
Some universities are resisting MOOCs since the administrators could cooperate with distance
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The majority of the countries have some sort of distance education system. It is important to understand the dynamics behind this trend. First, it is foremost essential for governments to expand access to public services such as education. In this regard, distance education provides feasible solutions to particularly overcrowded and poor countries due to their huge populations. They might not afford to propose suitable and efficient public services to millions of residents. It is a challenge for them to hire
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have lately gained a lot of interest from the media, entrepreneurs, educators, and members of the technologically savvy public. The promise of MOOCs is that they would give open access to cutting-edge courses, possibly lowering the cost of a university degree. This is somewhat contradictory to the conventional higher education system. This has also promoted prestigious universities to make their courses available online thru platforms such as EDx or Coursera.
Along with famous institutions, new
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Open educational resources (OER) are defined as “learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under the copyright that has been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others” (UNESCO, 2020, p.176). They are shared, modified, and freely accessible thru learning networks. They are served in the public domain, permitting reuse, adaptation, and redistribution with an open license. UNESCO supports the
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Although the terms open learning, distance learning, correspondence learning, or online learning has been used interchangeably, they do not mean the same process of learning. While distance learning or distance education as the delivery mode of instruction refers to a learning environment in which teachers and students are physically distant and interaction occurs via technological affordances, open learning refers to a learning process where potential barriers are removed in order to address the needs of the students by enabling available
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In the broadest sense, the field of instructional design and technology (IDT) was once labeled as educational technology and technology-enhanced learning by a wide range of field experts. This term, however, is known as the integration of media for instructional goals. The internet, for example, is used to redesign instruction and enhance learning and teaching. Some scholars, including Reiser (2007), by contrast, emphasized that the scope of the field cannot be explained by the term educational technology. The IDT, rather,
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Despite almost a century of methodological investigation over the appropriate pedagogical approach, Western education is still founded on conventional concepts based on mentalistic notions, which isolate the mind from the body. At school, students receive instruction while staying passive and observing the ongoing instructional process. The purpose of this article is to introduce embodied learning as a counter-norm to mentalistic schooling.
The theory of embodied cognition underlines the connections between the mind and body as being an integral
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Situated learning refers to the fact that context is of great importance in learning and teaching. When learners are familiar with the context, they can better understand new information and make connections to prior experiences. Similarly, when a suitable schema is not engaged, learners have trouble understanding the learning contents and are compelled to remember or learn by rote. That is why; it could be said that learners cannot apply what they know to the field.
Situated learning also
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