About Us
Open English Basics
Open English is an online school created to reinvent the English language learning experience. The company serves a large and rapidly growing global market, initially targeting Spanish speakers in the Americas. Through live instruction with native English speaking teachers and multi-media learning content, all provided over the internet, Open English empowers students on their customized path to English fluency.
The Miami based company was founded in February, 2007 and is incorporated in Delaware. Open English boasts a multicultural management team, U.S. Board of Directors, and efficient technology development and student service operations located in Latin America.
Our Online School
The company offers a revolutionary new approach to English language learning which combines live instruction with native English speaking teachers and multi-media learning content customized to each learner. Its students study from home or office and avoid inconvenient scheduling, long commute times, high tuition costs, and outdated books and CD-ROMs.
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Among the features of the online school:
- Live Sessions: Native English speaking teachers instruct students in real time through virtual classrooms, sharing learning materials on their computer screens. Classes start every hour and are limited to 5 students per teacher. These live sessions focus on pronunciation, vocabulary and English conversation. This high-touch feature is a marked contrast to passive systems like CD-ROMs, books and tapes.
- Study Advisors: Study Advisors are similar to personal trainers at the gym: they are responsible for motivating and guiding students through the 12 month learning program to ensure they reach fluency. They make sure students are working online, on their own and at their own pace. The student and his Study Advisor communicate with each other for the entirety of the 12 month program via telephone, emails, and video screencasts which illustrate the student's progress.
- Personalized Interactive Content: The online school includes access to hundreds of interactive lessons, videos, podcasts and worksheets. After evaluating each individual, the platform personalizes and recommends a curriculum tailored to the needs of each student.
- Progress Tracking & Fluency Calculator: The Fluency Calculator estimates the date when a student will reach fluency based on the amount of time he is willing to study each week. The learning platform keeps track of each student's goals, weekly progress, cumulative progress and latest activity. The fluency calculator is constantly updated so students know where they stand --an important feature for a 12 month course.
- Academic Checkpoints: Teachers conduct a total of six checkpoints throughout the duration of the course to ensure that each student is progressing.