He wanted to take students out into the real world and to make everything they did with language much more real. Jason also thought that students needed a better deal if they wanted a short course of one to four weeks, wanted to improve … shouldn’t go into too much except to say that in 2007 we were very much ahead of our time and people really didn’t understand how important VoIP , social media and social learning were going to become in language teaching and learning.
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INTERVIEW: Jason West | edtechdigest.com