Professor Alejandro Armellini
After 6 years working at the University of Leicester, our former colleague and alumnus (graduated from the MEd Ed Tech and TESOL in 1996), is leaving Leicester to take up the post of Director of the...
View ArticleOpen Educational Resources in Languages
Date: 1 June 2012 Start Time: 09:30 am Location/venue: Harrington Building, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK, PR1 2HE This event is being hosted as part of the Higher Education...
View ArticleHEA/JISC discipline-specific Open Educational Resources Workshop and Seminar...
A report from Andrew Green (current MA onsite student) who attended the OER session in Preston On Friday 1st June, I attended a very interesting workshop in Preston at the University of Central...
View ArticleThe INTENT project
Here is some useful information about a European project on telecollaboration — INTENT — which includes names you will be familiar with from the world of ELT.
View ArticleDiploma or MA
One of our former students discussing the pros and cons of doing a Diploma or an Master’s; see what you think:...
View ArticleTurkish tales
I am doing a webinar 28th November for the British Council in Turkey: A conversation about social media in language learning and then following this I am attending an ELT conference at Ylidiz...
View ArticlePart of my Yildiz Technical University Conference experience
Answering some questions about technology and language learning after my plenary. British Council Interviews Dr. Gary Motteram from British Council Turkey on Vimeo.
View ArticleThe international symposium on Digital Methodologies in Educational Research
The international symposium on Digital Methodologies in Educational Research will be held on 10th May 2013. The event is funded by Digital Social Research (University of Oxford), a new phase of the...
View ArticleConference in Cyprus 5-7 Dec 2013
I have been invited to be a plenary at this conference in Cyprus: http://lcweb.ucy.ac.cy/flit/. I see that Greg Kessler is also a plenary and that there is a call for papers out. Cyprus is a short hop...
View ArticleIATEFL Conference 2013
Just returned from a great IATEFL conference where some of the IATEFL stewards were current Manchester MA students: Also, met a large number of current distance and former students many of whom were...
View ArticleWorldCALL 2013
I am currently at: with a number of our current and former students: Isil Boy, Olga Kosar, Tal Levy, Wu Ligao, Eleni Nikiforou, Andrew Prosser, Ellen Rana, Ana Victoria Perez Real, Lijing Shi and...
View ArticleAndrew Prosser@WorldCALL
Andrew Prosser talking about the use of digital stories in teacher education in Korea at the recent WorldCALL Conference in Glasgow.
View ArticleOlga Kozar@WorldCALL
Olga talked about two projects including her PhD at Macquarie. See work on her web page in the right hand column.
View ArticleDiana Laurillard on MOOCs
I have taken this off the ALT-Members list, who have been debating the pros and cons of MOOCs and other assorted open course types for a while, so that I can spread it more widely; seems to me to be …...
View ArticleReviewing current and future practice in the use of worlds in Higher...
There will be a face-to-face and virtual event at Manchester and in Second Life: Reviewing current and future practice in the use of worlds in Higher Education Institutions on 14th March, 2014. This...
View ArticleTurkish tales
I am doing a webinar 28th November for the British Council in Turkey: A conversation about social media in language learning and then following this I am attending an ELT conference at Ylidiz...
View ArticlePart of my Yildiz Technical University Conference experience
Answering some questions about technology and language learning after my plenary. British Council Interviews Dr. Gary Motteram from British Council Turkey on Vimeo.
View ArticleThe international symposium on Digital Methodologies in Educational Research
The international symposium on Digital Methodologies in Educational Research will be held on 10th May 2013. The event is funded by Digital Social Research (University of Oxford), a new phase of the...
View ArticleConference in Cyprus 5-7 Dec 2013
I have been invited to be a plenary at this conference in Cyprus: http://lcweb.ucy.ac.cy/flit/. I see that Greg Kessler is also a plenary and that there is a call for papers out. Cyprus is a short hop...
View ArticleReviewing current and future practice in the use of virtual worlds in Higher...
This is a free event and lunch will be provided. Please contact Gary Motteram to register on this event: gary.motteram@manchester.ac.uk Place: Kanaris Lecture Theatre, Manchester Museum, University of...
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