Something of a Catholic confession is brewing in my mind... 'Bless me Father for I have...no, not sinned - just have been remiss of keeping up this blog'! We'll aspire to be amazing bloggers... pray for us that it'll happen. LOL!Life behind the scenes has reached wonderful new heights - and finally, Learn-Now / Authentic Encounters Online Ltd, isn't just seen as a Gifted & Talented Programme - but where intent and experience is now the desired nature sought of us, for support and insight, by others - beyond G&T education at that too.
Up opened the world of official IT consultancy work - and within one amazingly bizarre week end of April, three completely independent approaches were made, and varying 'titles' were employed. One labelled their request in need of an IT Consultant for an MOE (ESOL) contract, another an eLearning Consultant and the third, a Practitioner Consultant. All in the field of practical eLearning, providing support at grass-roots level. For one contract, that meant an ideas development phase; another, that 'right-now-for-the-student-tomorrow' approach and the third, an 'up-and-running-for-next-term please', deal. Even fees offered were stunningly relative in today's consultancy/commercial market.
In the process, Learn-Now itself grew tenfold+, much attributing to the swine flu and the wish for so many more parents to homeschool, but also with a great deal more interest from schools, in outsourcing G&T and from parents - remedial tuition. Repeat clients are full on - with many upgrading enrolments for each and every subsequent term to date. Still though, many others struggle to handle the 'we're not a course' nature of Learn-Now and continue to seek more traditional approaches to learning. The toughest thing we still handle, is the adult world baulking at student autonomy (right through to even baulking at animations on a page - those heartened 'way2go' features from students, but quashed as always by so many in charge). But it's all part of the fun and we are so very used to it. The amazing takes however, far outweigh yesteryear moments.
So that's us - but not for so long this time...our next post is in the making :)
