If you’re participating in the IATEFL conference, come join me for a talk about TubeQuizard tomorrow afternoon ..read more

Imagine you’re going to run a 6-participant course that you’ve taught F2F, but this time, you’re running it via Skype or Zoom. What questions / concerns / worries would you have? This is the question that I’m going to ask my participants tomorrow in my workshop at #BESIG2019, and my goal for the workshop is to address those concerns. If you’re at the conference and are up for an early morning workshop, do come by!  If not, I’m planning to run an online training on that in early 2020 – watch this space ..read more

Hi everyone, Earlier this year I gave a webinar for Macmillan Russia on using technology to promote good study habits. This was part of their Digital Technology for Exams webinar series. I really enjoyed doing this webinar, and I’m very happy that they allowed me to share the recording. P.S. Hat tip to Lizzie Pinard, whose IATEFL 2015 talk on learner autonomy first introduced me to some of the key ideas and sources on developing learner autonomy. After attending that talk, I shared Lizzie’s ideas with my colleagues at EPAM systems and we started experimenting on encouraging learner autonomy i ..read more