About Aspera PrivaTeacher

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About Aspera PrivaTeacher
Who We Are	Aspera PrivaTeacher was founded in 1994 as a group interested in promoting education through multimedia and the Internet. Together with an international team of experts, we have dedicated ourselves to providing the best in online English language education. A complete list of team members is given below.
Philosophy and Learning Goals	Aspera PrivaTeacher courses reflect a belief in two areas of English language education: multiskills development--that is, that language is learned by reading, writing, listening, and speaking, and communicative methods. In Aspera PrivaTeacher, communication takes place both with teachers and other students. All of our courses have been developed with these two educational beliefs in mind. In any Aspera PrivaTeacher course, students have many choices of topics and activities. Although each course is organized by chapters, the interactive structure allows students to begin with any topic that interests them. Students can focus on reading first, next writing, and then grammar, listening, or speaking and proceed through the course in any order they choose. Or, they can begin at the beginning, and go through in a linear fashion. Both methods will result in excellent progress in English learning.
Team Members	Production Management: Jim Duber, M.A., University of California, Berkeley M. E. Sokolik, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Writing and Editing: M. E. Sokolik, Jim Duber, Janet Raskin, Massachusetts, USA; Linda Butler, Massachusetts, USA; Jeremy Taylor, Brno, Czech Republic; Sean Sutton, LinguaSy, Athens, Greece; Cathy Wesolek, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA; Tom Nixon, Visalia Adult School, Fresno, California, USA; Greg Jewell, Drexel University; Lise Minovitz, Indiana State University, USA; Grace Low, University of Oregon, USA; Simon Gill, Olomouc, Czech Republic; Laurie Baker-Malungu, Macau Graphics and Illustration: Todd Blayone, MediaNorth, Toronto, Canada; George Attia, UC Berkeley; Jim Duber; M. E. Sokolik Sound: Tom McCaffrey, RealHelp, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Programming: Jim Duber; M. E. Sokolik; Sasan Salari, WebCT Systems, Vancouver, B.C., Canada; Erik Rogers (intern extraordinaire), UC Berkeley; Richard Crooker, Ph.D., Kutztown University; Paul Lynch, P & L Systems, Bucks, England Photography: M.E. Sokolik, Jim Duber Special photo credits: Recumbent Bicycle: Luke Howe, Easy Racers Inc., www.easyracers.com Scrimshaw: Paul Madden, Antique Scrimshaw, www.antiquescrimshaw.com Corel Galleria Quality Assurance: Scott Janssen, QA4U, Sunnyvale, California, USA CD-ROM Production: Darren Nisbett and Amy Aaron for Constellation Internet Ltd., London, England. http://www.stargate.co.uk Additional graphics, production and programming by Darren Nisbett. Thanks to everyone at Aspera Ltd., and particularly Uno Kjellberg, Affik Choudhury, Evgeny Bukhalenkov, Julia Sobolewska and Marie Carlsson for their feedback and suggestions. Thanks also to the Aspera PrivaTeacher head teachers, Jane May, United Kingdom; Kerry McEwan-Wedge, United Kingdom; Teresa Thiel, Australia; Jan Fitzgerald, USA.