Learning Resources and Copyright Laws: Legal considerations: Obviously, all language teaching involve resources, books, audios, other supplementary exercises, newspaper articles etc. We will therefore always insist that our client schools furnish their new students with a principal text book – hence we hope all will have a book allowance. From our point of view, legally, all students should have text books. We ourselves have built in text book costs as part of our pricing structure. Alas the monotony of text books! Have you ever tried teaching a text book from cover to cover? If you have, then you will be well aware that students very quickly become bored with the monotony of their pattern of learning. So, even with text books supplied, we have found this was not enough. Always we would need to supplement with more interesting articles or other grammar exercises, or with audios for listening comprehension, etc. Hence we have designed learning modules combining content of text books with supplementary exercises from other sources. We are forever busy creating listening or reading comprehension exercises etc. Online library: Thus, even with text books supplied, we still need an online library to facilitate the movement of electronic communications between school, teachers and students. Technically speaking, our online library is for the reference and convenience of our teachers who are located in different countries and who are unable to visit our central school library. However, it is also proving very convenient for our students in that they can now receive their lesson instructions and supplementary materials all in one file. Security is always number one priority: For security reasons our online library remains “invisible” - that is - accessible only through hyperlinks forwarded to teachers and students. One does not “visit” the library as such and browse around. Rather one is given access through hyperlinks required only for particular lessons. |