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What Are the Effects of LINC Blended Learning?
What are the effects of LINC Blended Learning on learners, teachers and programs? Are there benefits or drawbacks? In September 2017 LearnIT2teach evaluators Jill Cummings, Matthias Sturm and Augusta Avram set out to gather evidence from field research at the LINC program in the Lower Mainland of B.C. Three teachers, 45 learners, the program manager …
“An Adult Settlement Blended Language Training: Selected Annotated Bibliography.”
Tutela Online Resource: An Adult Settlement Blended Language Training: Selected Annotated Bibliography.” What are the pros and cons of blended learning? Are there practical ways to introduce technology to the classroom? What impact can Web 2.0 have on the language classroom? TESL professionals looking for research on blended language instruction in settlement programs have a …
Survey reveals that CALL and IT skills play growing role in administrator hiring decisions
A March 2013 survey of Ontario LINC service providers on the role technology plays in their hiring practices indicates IT skills have a large and growing role in determining if a teacher gets hired. Administrators were asked on a scale of 1 – 10, what role does a teacher’s technology skills play in a decision …
Learner Readiness
We have four new Learner Readiness courses available for instructors to use with their students. Each course is LINC level appropriate and will help students and teachers become more familiar with all relevant aspects of the LINC courseware for blended instruction. Each course has five sections: Getting Ready to Learn Online Edlinc, The Basics Reading, …
New student support blocks
If you look at your edlinc course today, you will notice two new blocks. These blocks are direct links to student support web spaces. These should allow the students to have more independence when using the courseware as they can locate essential information on how to perform activities and basic tasks in the courses. If …
Teachers want to reset or add LINC glossaries to your courses?
The LINC glossaries bank can be used by LINC courseware instructors to reset course glossaries, to add glossaries or to merge glossaries on their courses. To locate glossaries and add them to your course, go to the support document Glossary files.
New LINC 5, 6 & 7 Learning objects released!
Additional interactive learning objects are ready for download to support the LINC 5-7 Classroom Activities (Vol. 1 and 2). These resources complement Chapter 3, Interacting with Others, of the Classroom Activities. Instructors with edlinc courses can easily add these to their existing courses.
Read the March issue of the ESL LINC Digital News
Items in this edition are listed below. Click on the news icon to read this edition. Project News LearnIT2teach Podcast #17 Learner Questionnaires Web News Recognising the power of voice recording Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice to the Online Classroom Winning the Masters (degree) Blogs 5 Useful iPad Apps For ESL Students 50 …
Starting a course with LINC courseware?
With so many LINC instructors embarking on using LINC courseware recently, it seems like a good time to remind everyone that there are support features throughout this portal. In our support links there are: getting started pages a listing of FAQs teacher Help pages an editing teacher manual a starting your course video




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Completing Stage 3 or Stage 4 of the LearnIT2Teach teacher training has been recognized by TESL Ontario as a Post TESL Certificate Training Accreditation Course. Upon successful completion of one of the stages, TESL Ontario members are encouraged to apply to the organization for the accreditation. However, if a teacher completed Stage 3 prior to July 2014, she or he is not eligible as the training stage has been modified to meet TESL Ontario PTCT criteria.


