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On-line learning tools revisited netspeak

This week NetSpeak discusses a few tools/services catering to on-line teaching/learning.

We have discussed several communication/collaboration tools such as Wiki, Blog, Skype and the like. Innovative web entrepreneurs/educators are deploying these tools for facilitating teaching/learning. A few such services are discussed here.

Skype, the online telephony tool, is popular among netizens for speaking with people across the Net. Besides being used a communication tool, Skype is increasingly getting used for distance teaching. For instance, the online service, ‘Echineselearning’ (https://www.echineselearning.com/), based in Beijing, China, uses skype for teaching Chinese. Anyone from anywhere on the globe with a Skype account can join this service and enjoy live, one-to-one teaching. In fact, it resembles a classroom setting — the student can see the teacher, interact with her and clear the doubts instantaneously. To get a feel of the course you can take the service’s free trial lesson. In this regard, the demo available here ( https://www.echineselearning.com/demo.html ) also could be useful.

J. MURALI

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