Best Practices for Blended Learning

by Pete Sharma

Best Practices for Blended Learning supports language teachers and school managers in developing and running Blended Learning courses.Authors Pete Sharma and Barney Barrett bring their years of experience to this ever-evolving and highly-complex field to offer systematic guidance on the various technologies available to language teachers and a framework to help you choose which of the many learning platforms available is suitable for your context and goals.The handbook also contains a wealth of practical teaching ideas which blend traditional classroom input with online activities. Whether you are a language teacher or teacher trainer looking to start blending your classes, or an academic manager looking to improve learning outcomes in your institution, Best Practices for Blended Learning offers the information and support that you need.

278 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 17, 2020

About the author

Pete started his EFL career as a business English teacher in Madrid, moving to Finland before returning to the UK. He worked as teacher trainer, Director of Studies and school manager before becoming the Group teacher training and development manager for Linguarama, a business English organisation which is now part of the Marcus Evans group. In his capacity as a member of the Group Pedagogical Unit he inspected schools, taught writing seminars in the Middle and Far East, and helped create and run trainer training courses. He has written extensively about technology in language teaching. Pete recently changed from ESP to EAP, and currently divides his time between lecturing at Oxford Brookes University and on the Warwick University pre-sessional courses, and writing. He keeps a blog on using technology in ELT with co-author Barney Barrett.