Tataaam! Drumroll! 🥁A historic moment! I participated in the first ever real MOOC in 2008. The famous CK08 course called ‘Connectivism and Connective Knowledge’. * And now, I’m participating in: The world’s first university delivered MOOC taught 100% on-chain and…
It makes total business sense to do this in order to generate additional income from secondary sales of used books, but I didn’t expect NFT adoption in the publishing industry to happen so fast. My thoughts: ✅ I’m wondering whether Pearson will…
I thoroughly enjoyed chatting about online immersive learning with Graham Stanley, who invited me to his Morning Break radio show. We talked about some of my favourite topics: ???? Immersive language learning in virtual reality???? The metaverse???? The need for digital skills…
The 7th Future of English language Teaching Conference (FOELT) took place on Saturday, 11th June, 2022. The abstract of my talk There has been a lot of talk about the metaverse in the past year, and language teachers, teacher trainers…
Read part one on note-taking in virtual reality first. Writing (and also reading) is difficult in fully immersive virtual reality because the user is wearing a headset. While engineers are working on the technology and coming up with solutions, I…
Note-taking is good for learning (Friedman, n.d.). We learned how to do it at school and university, and we teach it to our students. In language lessons, teachers write up language and grammar they want to teach on the board,…
I had the opportunity to give a talk combining my favourite topics – language learning, the environment and EdTech at this year’s InnovateELT conference that took place 1–2 October. I was very happy when I saw that Emily Bryson not…
Billie Jago interviewed me for theDigital Series of her ELTcpd podcast. In this episode, we speak to EdTech professional and VR expert Nergiz Kern about using Virtual Reality in both the online and face-to-face classroom. We’ll be discussing the three…
Hybrid learning has become a popular teaching model–including at language schools–as a response to the COVID-19 restrictions in education. In this article, I will look at what it is and what the challenges are. Then I will suggest a new…
When things are going well, institutions are slow to change. Student numbers on EAP (English for Academic Purposes) pre-sessional courses in the UK have been increasing steadily over the past decade that I have been teaching EAP. So there was…