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At MyEducationKey, we believe in Educational Excellence for All, and striving to extend the Frontiers of Knowledge and Learning across all sections of the society. To accomplish this goal, we have created this educational portal – delivering world-class, online, multi-media educational content for anyone anywhere.

MyEducationKey is a virtual open access educational video lectures and content repository site for students, self-learners, and teachers. As increasingly high-quality educational content is becoming available online, we are committed to the use of technology in bringing it all together and create a user-friendly learning environment that is accessible to everyone around the globe. This site will advance useful human knowledge, creativity, lifelong learning, and social welfare of educators, students, and self-learners.

Our goal is to give online users the opportunity to learn from complete video courses and lectures from the world’s renowned educational institutions, scholars, thinkers, and independent contributors. The high-quality video educational and learning content at MyEducationKey is aimed to help improve the quality of homeschooling K-12 education, teaching and student learning experience at schools/colleges/universities, helping educators and self-learners alike. All video lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users comments. Teachers can use this site to stream related world-class high-quality instructional content in their classrooms, and leave themselves with the all-important task of concepts enhancement through discussions, practice and projects. We believe it will help augment the way we learn, revolutionize the education system and enhance the quality of education towards achieving excellence for all.

We invite everyone who shares our vision to utilize our website, interact with our online community of users, and help us continue to find creative ways to make educational learning accessible for everyone.At MyEducationKey, we believe in Educational Excellence for All, and striving to extend the Frontiers of Knowledge and Learning across all sections of the society. To accomplish this goal, we have created this educational portal – delivering world-class, online, multi-media educational content for anyone anywhere.

MyEducationKey is a virtual open access educational video lectures and content repository site for students, self-learners, and teachers. As increasingly high-quality educational content is becoming available online, we are committed to the use of technology in bringing it all together and create a user-friendly learning environment that is accessible to everyone around the globe. This site will advance useful human knowledge, creativity, lifelong learning, and social welfare of educators, students, and self-learners.

Our goal is to give online users the opportunity to learn from complete video courses and lectures from the world’s renowned educational institutions, scholars, thinkers, and independent contributors. The high-quality video educational and learning content at MyEducationKey is aimed to help improve the quality of homeschooling K-12 education, teaching and student learning experience at schools/colleges/universities, helping educators and self-learners alike. All video lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users comments. Teachers can use this site to stream related world-class high-quality instructional content in their classrooms, and leave themselves with the all-important task of concepts enhancement through discussions, practice and projects. We believe it will help augment the way we learn, revolutionize the education system and enhance the quality of education towards achieving excellence for all.

We invite everyone who shares our vision to utilize our website, interact with our online community of users, and help us continue to find creative ways to make educational learning accessible for everyone.At MyEducationKey, we believe in Educational Excellence for All, and striving to extend the Frontiers of Knowledge and Learning across all sections of the society. To accomplish this goal, we have created this educational portal – delivering world-class, online, multi-media educational content for anyone anywhere.

MyEducationKey is a virtual open access educational video lectures and content repository site for students, self-learners, and teachers. As increasingly high-quality educational content is becoming available online, we are committed to the use of technology in bringing it all together and create a user-friendly learning environment that is accessible to everyone around the globe. This site will advance useful human knowledge, creativity, lifelong learning, and social welfare of educators, students, and self-learners.

Our goal is to give online users the opportunity to learn from complete video courses and lectures from the world’s renowned educational institutions, scholars, thinkers, and independent contributors. The high-quality video educational and learning content at MyEducationKey is aimed to help improve the quality of homeschooling K-12 education, teaching and student learning experience at schools/colleges/universities, helping educators and self-learners alike. All video lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users comments. Teachers can use this site to stream related world-class high-quality instructional content in their classrooms, and leave themselves with the all-important task of concepts enhancement through discussions, practice and projects. We believe it will help augment the way we learn, revolutionize the education system and enhance the quality of education towards achieving excellence for all.

We invite everyone who shares our vision to utilize our website, interact with our online community of users, and help us continue to find creative ways to make educational learning accessible for everyone.

Article by Brixovng

When you was young you have your class in your classroom, but sometimes you will feel more and more numbing. When you grow bigger, you will have a more numbing feeling to learn something new in a classroom if you are still a student. This is because that the bigger you grow, the more thing you need to pay your attention to. For example, when you are 30 years old, you are learning a foreign language such as Chinese, if you choose to learn this language in a classroom, maybe you will feel very fresh if you have left your college for a long time. At this time, you will be very pleasure to learn such a language in a classroom, because you will have a deep impress of your language teacher as well as the knowledge you are learning, so you will have more passion to learn this language, and you will show your dynamic spirit to your classmates and others will show you the same feeling. So you will get a wonderful language environment from your language class.

From the example above we may know that learning a new language need a real language surrounding as well as a fresh experience of learning. Although these are not the keys to learning a new language, these two points will become the important elements which can make your learning much more effective. There are many people who learn Arabic for their different demand, however, it is not easy to learn. So nearly all of the Arabic language learners want to find out a good software program to help themselves have a effective language study. Rosetta Stone Arabic will be the best choice for you if you are learning this language. It can not only provide you with lots of vocabulary, but also it can provide you with many interesting pictures as well as many interesting stories, so that you can understand the language well, and at the same time, you can learn more about the culture at a deep degree.

What’s more, Rosetta Stone Arabic can be funny for you to learn a new language. With this kind of software, you do not need to worry about that your learning is so bored that you nearly give up. Compared to bored feeling, Rosetta Stone Arabic can provide a fresh and interesting feeling to you, so you can pay more passion to your language learning, and you will get a excellent result at last.

Browsing all the things above, maybe you have learned something on learning a foreign language, especially the one you have chosen. If you want to learn more, click Rosetta Stone Russian and Rosetta Stone Spanish.

Browsing all the things above, maybe you have learned something on learning a foreign language, especially the one you have chosen. If you want to learn more, click Rosetta Stone Arabic and Rosetta Stone Chinese.

Article by Danny C. Miller

You’ve chosen to learn Spanish. That’s great! But now the hard part–how to go about learning it? Which Spanish language learning method is best for you? This article is going to count down the top 5 Spanish language learning methods and give advice in regards to which method is best for you.

#5 Learning Spanish With Books

Books are a very popular way to learn Spanish. As a person who makes a living as a language learning textbook writer, though, I tell you with great sadness that I don’t recommend this method. Why? Because books are dead. By dead I don’t mean they aren’t useful. What I do mean is that you cannot interact with them. You cannot, for example, have an interactive Spanish conversation with a textbook. Books can’t talk to you! You cannot use them to listen to and repeat Spanish words and phrases. Books also lack features such as fun, flashy vocabulary games, voice recording and playback features, and interactive Spanish language learning forums. In short, online and software-based Spanish courses do everything that Spanish textbooks do–and tons more. They are the new books!

#4 Taking a Local Spanish Course

It used to be that taking a local Spanish course was the preferred method of study. Books and software programs were just backup options for those who didn’t have the funds or the time to take a “real” Spanish course. This is no longer the case. In fact, I rate software and web-based learning ahead of taking a local Spanish course. Why? Because you actually get more interaction with them. Think about it. How much interaction do you get with a teacher in charge of 10-30 other people? Not very much. I took my first Spanish course in college, and it had 40 people in it. I did nothing but listen to the professor lecture, which isn’t a very good way to pick up a new language.

Of course, there are good things about taking a local Spanish course. If you are taking Spanish because you want to get out and meet new friends, by all means, take a local course. If you are the type of person who gets bored if left alone for 10 minutes, a Spanish course is good for you too. If you’re looking for the quickest, easiest way to master the Spanish language, however, go with computer-based learning.

#3 Learning Spanish With Software Programs

Spanish learning software programs were the first step up one could take from books and local Spanish courses. They broke open the computer-based learning market, mainly because they offered everything I mentioned above that books lack, interaction, voice recording technologies, Spanish native-speaker recordings, and fun and interesting Spanish language learning games. In particular, people loved the interactive Spanish verb conjugation activities included in these programs; they made learning both fun and easy.

Today, Spanish learning software programs are better than ever. They have greatly improved graphics, incredible voice recognition capabilities, and even more interaction. In addition, the top software packages now have online components. You can log in and get access to Spanish learning forums, Spanish-speaking partners, user-uploaded vocabulary lists, and new and upgraded learning materials.

#2 Learning Spanish Online

Let me say right from the start that if you don’t have a reliable Internet connection learning Spanish online is not the best option for you-go with software-based learning instead. Oftentimes, online and software-based courses from the same company are identical. The only difference is that with one you login and work online and with the other you take DVDs and load the program on your computer. “Why chance it?,” you may be thinking. Why not just get the software and then forget about failing Internet connections

There are several reasons why I prefer learning Spanish online. First, sometimes I study on different computers, usually either my desktop, my laptop, or my girlfriends desktop. With online learning, this is no problem. My progress is tracked and stored in the same location. Also, I am currently studying with Rocket Spanish, and this program allows me to customize my learning area, by allowing me to place “sticky notes,” for example. If were using the software-based version, I could not do this because what I do on one computer would not register on the other.

In addition, with online Spanish programs, I have immediate access to web-based features, such as help forums, chat features, and updated learning materials. I like that integration. Finally, online programs are usually cheaper. That’s right. Even though the course is exactly the same, you usually have to pay to get those DVDs, and all the fancy packaging they come in.

#1 Overseas Immersion Programs

If you’ve got the time and resources, there is no doubt that overseas immersion courses are the best way to learn Spanish. In fact, I get excited just thinking about it! Madrid! Barcelona! Mexico city! When choosing a location to learn Spanish you have many exciting options because there are so many countries that use Spanish as their first language. In addition to the fun and excitement of such an adventure, Spanish immersion programs are also the best way to learn quickly.

Every minute of every day you are surrounded by Spanish speaking opportunities. Every time you go to a restaurant, convenience store, market, or anywhere else, you will have to Speak Spanish to get what you want. Too expensive, you say? Well, it does cost money, but probably not as much as you think. In addition, these programs are great for those who are planning vacations anyway. Oftentimes, these courses add little or nothing on top of your regular travel expenses, and you get room, board, education, and cultural activities for one lump sum!

Final Thoughts

Each of the above-mentioned ways to learn Spanish has pros and cons, mostly based on your Spanish learning goals and your personal living and working situations. Pick one, or two, based on your own needs and conditions and get learning now!

Article by Minigamesnow

Although the literature on games and simulations is accumulating day by day, the issue of whether games influence students’ learning in a positive way is still vague. For instance, Molenda and Sullivan (2003) state that among problem solving and integrated learning systems, games and simulations are among the least used technology applications in education. However, there are some studies that describe the effects of games and simulations on discovery learning strategies; problem solving skills and computer using skills; and effects on students’ intellectual, visual, motor skills and indicate how games and simulations impact student engagement and interactivity, which are important for learning environments.Cole (1996) has shown that long-term game playing has a positive effect on students’ learning (cited in Subrahmanyam, Greenfield, Kraut, & Gross, 2001, p. 16). Gredler states that intellectual skills and “cognitive strategies” are acquired during academic games (1996, p. 525). However, she also states that certain games require only simple skills such as recall of verbal or visual elements rather than higher-order skills and as a result, provide environments for winning by guessing (Gredler, 1994). Similarly, Prensky (2001) admits that especially with the non-stop speedy games, the opportunity to stop and think critically about the experience is lessened (Prensky, 2001; Provenzo, 1992). Csikszentmihalyi (1990) alsosupports the belief that during an enjoyable activity, insufficient amount of time is devoted for thinking and reflection.Games are claimed to have cognitive development effects on visual skills including “spatial representation,” “iconic skills,” and “visual attention” (Greenfield, 1984, cited in Prensky, 2001, p. 45; Subrahmanyam et al., 2001, p. 13). Greenfield, deWinstanley, Kilpatrick, and Kaye (1994) claim that as players become more skilled in games, their visual attention becomes proportionally better. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills (Rieber, 1996), drawing meaningful conclusions (Price, 1990), some inductive discovery skills like observation, trial, and error and hypothesis testing (Gorriz & Medina, 2000; Greenfield, 1984, cited in Prensky, 2001; Price, 1990), and several other strategies of exploration (Prensky, 2001; Provenzo, 1992) were other positive effects of games on learning. Subrahmanyam et al. (2001) articulate that playing computer games can provide trainingopportunities for gaining computer literacy, which is consistent with Prensky’s (2001)statement that games can be used in order to help people gain some familiarity with the computer hardware.Games motivate learners to take responsibility for their own learning, which leads to intrinsic motivation contained by the method itself (Rieber, 1996). Malone (1980) and Malone and Lepper (1987) define four characteristics of games that contribute to increases in motivation and eagerness for learning. These are challenge, fantasy, curiosity, and control. Challenges in a game tend to fight students’ boredom and keep them engaged with the activity by means of adjusted levels of difficulty. Fantasy in a game increases enthusiasm by providing an appealing imaginary context, whereas curiosity offers interesting, surprising, and novel contexts that stimulate students’ needs to explore the unknown. Finally, the control characteristic gives learners the feeling of self-determination. According to Rieber (1996), gaming elements have a relationship with enjoyable activities that enable the “flow” stage, a term coined by Csikszentmihalyi (1990). Thus, gaming activities have the potential to engross the learner into a state of flow and consequently cause better learning through focus and pleasant rewards (Prensky, 2001), while increasingtheir motivation and attainment (Rosas, Nussbaum, Cumsille, Marianov, Correa, Flores, et al., 2003). Other characteristics that ensure the effectiveness of game-based learning are their engagement and interactivity, and active participation (Gredler, 1996; Prensky, 2001; Price, 1990;Provenzo, 1992). Games provide a great deal of highly interactive feedback, which is crucial to learning (Gredler, 1994; Malone, 1980; Prensky, 2001; Rieber, 1996). “Practice and feedback, learning by doing, learning from mistakes, goal oriented learning, discovery learning, task-based learning, question-based learning, situated learning, role playing, coaching, constructivist learning, multi-sensory learning” are applicable interactive learning techniques, when learning through games (Prensky, 2001, p. 157).