4.0 skills

Skills needed for industry 4.0 – both soft and hard skills

EFL 3.Writing to build a LinkedIn profile that (net)works!

Now that we have thought about your LinkedIn purpose in the previous article, it is time to build your network. We can divide LinkedIn users into 2 main categories. Either you want to expand your professional network for your job or company (sales and promotion), or you are looking for a job.    Sales and promotion […]

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EFL 2. Writing your LinkedIn purpose and identity

If you want to write on professional social media platforms, you need to be clear what your purpose is and who you are on the platform. Not sure what this is? That’s ok because in this article, I will show you how to do this. The first step is to become familiar with others on

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EFL 1. 3 Pro tips for effective LinkedIn writing for non-native English speakers

3 tips for social media writing for non-native speakers, English as a Foreign Language, EFL

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Why LinkedIn has so few Non Native English Speaker contributors and what can de done about it

Where are the Non Native Speakers? LinkedIn, the Facebook for professionals around the world, is an essential tool for people in international business, and increasingly for the business of academic research, too. However, even for a country that became one of Asia’s Tiger economies built on international trade, Taiwan’s number of LinkedIn accounts is very

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Why online teaching doesn’t foster real learning, and how to overcome the 3 main obstacles to online learning

The online education market is exploding. Covid lockdowns have accelerated the need for online learning and educational videos. Many teachers and non-teachers alike have responded in continuous flow of educational video after video. That’s great for learning, but that also means there is a lot more competition to make your educational videos stand out.  What

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Communicating Passion in the economy of attention: The artistic techno-science of Youtuber communication skills

Mega-star Youtubers of all niches have millions of loyal fans. Gamer and internet meme commentator Pewdiepie has 108 million subscribers, viral challenge master Mr. Beast has 60.2 million, fun loving sports and comedy bros Dude Perfect have 55.8 million, sexy Youtube video commentator SSSniperwolf has 26.9 million, internet personality and scandal-monger Logan Paul has 22.9

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The evolution and future of EFFECTIVE online learning: v1.0 to v4.0

Covid-19 has resulted in mass layoffs and more time for huge numbers of people. Many have therefore turned to the internet to upskill or even completely reskill by taking informal and more formal online courses. These courses may be MOOCs or paid pre-recorded video courses with or without certificates. In Covid-stricken 2020, Coursera alone increased

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A dynamic model of ELF communicative competence

If the evolutionary purpose of language is social, then language cannot be reduced to words and grammar rules. Language is not the end but a means to an end. And that end is communication, which refers to not only the knowledge and skills in language use but also of the context and its participants. In

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The attention economy in academia – Social media strategies for the Open Science age of information

For over two decades, advances in ICT have created a flood of information that has disrupted the traditional business marketplace and plunged it into the new attention economy where companies struggle to catch and maintain customer attention. A parallel shift can be seen for scientists in a new research attention economy. Researchers face unprecedented competition

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