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We have been creating newsletters since we started Out There in 2001, but due to being very busy and general laziness they have been fairly sporadic (irregular!) but now, with this new site we are going to keep on producing regular snapshots into the world of Out There.

As you will see, we have had an interesting few years as we have continued to innovate.

We try to inform, debate and provide a bit of entertainment, all at the same time. Do please tell us what you think. Click on the links below:

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  New English Out There Website + Special Launch Offer
Apr 19, 2011
Our new English Out There website, with fully integrated social media and social networking and learning communities is now live and to celebrate we are offering our SS (student self-study) course levels for just 5GBP each. That's just 8 UK pence per hour.
  Twisting My Mellon, Man - EOT News December 2010
Dec 15, 2010
Head stuff for the neuroscience buffs, a new EOT course format brewing and a growing Facebook tecahers group...garn!  Plus Skype are going to 'blow the bleedin' doors off'.
  News Flash - Message for English Teachers Only
Nov 19, 2010
This is a short message about the new English Out There ebook course level packages...you can buy everything with just ome click now...easy!
  Bill Gates, Macmillan and FREE - LOT News Oct 2010
Oct 14, 2010
What have Bill Gates, the publisher Macmillan and FREE got in common?  Find out in the October English out There newsletter.
  Ed Tech Digest and Post Grad part 2 interviews - Sept 2010 LOT News
Sep 9, 2010
Read and listen to the views of Jason as he is interviewed about English langauge tecahing and learning, English Out There and education by two different people from quite different angles.
  English Out There refreshes the parts other English courses cannot reach - LOT News Aug 2010
Aug 24, 2010
EOT helps Chinese adult beginner to speak at intermediate level after just 18 hours - listen to the audio evidence
English teacher in China explains why EOT is so good - listen to this independent and respected podcast
Join our LinkedIn discussion, 'Is ELT honest?' - tell the Teaching English group run by us what you think
Social Digital Rights Management (DRM) makes EOT more flexible than other courses
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  Teaching Mute English Unplugged - EOT News May 2010
May 13, 2010
Free English lesson - watch and listen to this online then read the written newsletter
'Speak up! My old China!' - Is some innovation serving students, teachers, or no one?
Social inclusion, social media and the future of language teaching - video of seminar
Elearning and authentic scenarios - research paper
Jane, 27, Chinese - comparison audio clips from sessions 1 and 6
Waldek, 29, Polish - comparison audio clips from sessions 1 and 11
The future of publishing - very clever video
Old Jokes Home
  Social media a threat to language learning...LOT News March 2010
Mar 24, 2010
Social media a threat to language learning...someone at the Open University thinks so, maybe not the authors of the EU funded report that they led the writing effort on...

Follow our new podcast episodes that track our training of an intrepid Pole, Waldek, to improve his pre-intermediate English speaking skills and then open his own English Out There English school in the middle of Poland.
  Swedes do it over a nice cup of tea - Feb 2010 Out There News
Feb 10, 2010
English Out There on Facebook and our organic social media growth and integration are becoming something of an obsession for us. Being the world's first social learning English course for use with social media means we can expand and interact with the world in so many ways and be incredibly flexible. This newsletter has feedback from an English Out There course provider in China, some news about our Facebook work and the launch of our new forums on LOT.com.
  Social Media in ELT - Languages Out There News Jan 2010
Jan 28, 2010
Using social media to learn and practise English is a relatively new phenomenon but one that is probably here to stay. I've spent the last four and half years exploring the online world of language exchange and speaking practice and I have found a few things out.  Here is what in this month's newsletter, which is dedicated to social media English.

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"This is great...but whatever you do, don't do it!" - conflicting advice from a British Council/BBC website
How to train an ageing brain
Top 5 things I learnt in 2009
Old Jokes Home
 
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