Twelve years ago, Google first piloted Chromebooks in classrooms. Today, technology and apps are a regular part of learning experiences in every subject, including English as a second language (ESL), ...

Just because you can't explore the world doesn't mean you have to stop learning about it. The coronavirus crisis has left many people housebound and eager to find productive ways to pass the time. One ...

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The company, which counts Ashton Kutcher and four-hour obsessive Tim Ferriss among its backers, is doing it, in part, by enlisting new language learners to translate the web. It’s an approach that ...

Duolingo, the popular language-learning app, has launched Duolingo Max, a new subscription tier that includes a virtual language tutor powered by the recently released GPT-4 AI model, TechRadar ...

Virtual reality often means different things to different people. It has enchanted gamers around the world for decades, offering varied levels of immersive entertainment – desktop VR, 360 cell phone ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo — Snow days used to mean time off for students, but now for many it means logging on for virtual learning. For families like Miriam Galan who has two students in Kansas City Public ...

Cincinnati Public School administrators are considering expanding the district's existing virtual academy. During Wednesday afternoon's school board meeting, school leaders proposed a plan to launch a ...

The trouble with learning a foreign language is that to become fluent – or even just to be passably coherent in a reasonable timeframe – you need to be immersed in it. You need to live in a country ...

While most academic instruction was in-person during fall quarter, language classes were an anomaly, remaining mostly virtual because of issues posed by mask-wearing in a language learning environment ...

It may seem counterintuitive to be learning a language in a world where international travel is indefinitely on hold, but it seems now more than ever people are willing to give it a try. The question ...