Blended Learning within Advance Program life hacks and failures

1. Blended Learning within Advance Program life hacks and failures

Olga Minina
PhD, Foreign Languages
Department Head,
Syktyvkar State
University

2. Teaching Adults – a new challenge

3. Adults: the target audience peculiarities

• Limited in time
• Practice oriented
• Experts in their fields
• More critical
• Better thinkers
• Slow learners
• Digitally literate
• Rely on self education

4. Teaching Adults – a new challenge

Assignment:
• 15 students of 18-35
• Business + English + IT
Problem:
•2 regions
•Sample curriculum
•1 manual on English
2016
2017
2018

5. Our story: life hacks and failures

1
Module Education
2
Practice oriented cases
3
Scripts and samples
4
Rating system
5
Training practices
6
Blended learning

6.

Life hacks and failures:
Module Education
• 1 term : Business + English
• 2 term : English + IT
Aims:
• Business- to launch ones own business
• IT – to make a site or a group in social
networks for business promotion
• English – to be able to communicate in
the field of business, to apply for grants

7. Life hacks and failures: Practice oriented activities

• Public speaking
Staff management
Loft Space –startups market
Bitrix24
Social networks
Successful small business in the Komi
Republic:«Coffeesmile», «ЛЕКОТЕКА»,
«BUSY LIZZIE the BEE».
• Writing grant applications
• Stress management

8. Life hacks and failures: Scripts and samples

9. Life hacks and failures: Rating system

10. Life hacks and failures: Training practices

• Networking skills
• Self-presentation
• Self-motivation
• Project idea development
• Emotional etiquette
• Critical thinking
• Transactional analysis

11. Transactional analysis

12. Transactional analysis

• "Maybe we
should find out
why you've been
drinking more
lately,"
• "You're always
criticizing me,
just like my father
did,“
Parent
Parent
Adult
Adult
Child
Child

13. Transactional analysis

• Salesman: "This
one is better, but
you can't afford
it."
• Housewife:
"That's the one I'll
take.“
Parent
Parent
Adult
Adult
Child
Child

14. Transactional analysis

1. – Mom, do you love me?
- What do you mean by love?
2. – Darling, will you bring me
some tea, please
- You are not a child, you can do
it yourself
3. – I don’t want to go to school
- Don’t go! I won’t go to work
either!

15. Life hacks and failures: Blended learning

https://vk.com/advancekomi

16. Life hacks and failures: Blended learning http://nedlines.org

• Advance Vocational English Part 1. Survival
English
• Advance Vocational English Part 2. Business
English for Everyone
• Advance Vocational English Part 3.
Volunteering
• Аудиокурс английского языка (начальный
этап): Sing and Learn English. Часть 1
• Аудиокурс английского языка (начальный
этап): Sing and Learn English. Часть 2

17. Life hacks and failures: Blended learning http://nedlines.org

• Создание вебсайтов
• Бизнес планирование
• Продвижение в социальных сетях
(Social Media Marketing)
• Soft skills для профессиональной
деятельности
• Legal English

18. Life hacks and failures: Blended learning http://nedlines.org

FREE
• STEAM — science, technology,
engineering, arts, mathematics
• Грамматика английского языка:
тренажер по самоподготовке

19. Blended learning: Opportunities for teachers:

• Self paced courses for students’ self
work
• Automatic evaluation
• Interactive tests
• Practice oriented assignments
• Certificates
• Free or covered by grants for Advance
students

20. Blended learning failures

• Virtual class instruments
• Teacher – student interaction
• Content development
• Virtual environment development
• Social Media Marketing
• Promoting businesses at International
markets

21. Blended learning results

• 16 real businesses in various spheres
and 12 creative projects launched

22. Blended learning results

• Disabled students and parents of disabled
children finish the program successfully

23. Blended learning results

• Students prove their level of English

24. Thank you!

http://nedlines.org