When moving towards teaching online, teachers are confronted every day with issues such as online moderation, establishing social presence online, transitioning learners to online environments, giving feedback online. This book supports language teaching professionals and researchers who are keen to engage in online teaching and learning.

This book is certainly rich in detail that will facilitate self-training in technical skills sets for self-directed language teachers keen to effect a transition from face-to-face teaching to teaching online. This book comes highly recommended. book, overall, rightly claims to serve the needs of users in both formal and informal settings: whether trainees on a course or self-directed teachers with all combinations of pedagogical experience and technical competence interested in laying out their own pathways for professional development. (Raymond Sheehan, Independence, Issue 26, March, 2016)

Autorentext

Regine Hampel, Open University, UK Ursula Stickler, Open University, UK Aline Germain-Rutherford, Middlebury College in Vermont, USA Pauline Ernest, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Martina Emke, EFL teacher, Germany Linda Murphy, Open University, UK Joseph Hopkins, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Anna Comas-Quinn, Open University, UK Kate Borthwick, University of Southampton, UK Mateusz-Milan Stanojevi?, University of Zagreb, Croatia Süleyman Ba?aran, Dicle University, Turkey Emrah Cinkara, Gaziantep University, Turkey Nese Cabaroglu, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey

Inhalt

1. Introduction: From Teacher Training to Self-reflective Practice; Regine Hampel and Ursula Stickler 2. European Language Teachers and ICT: Experiences, Expectations, and Training Needs; Aline Germain-Rutherford & Pauline Ernest 3. Part-time and Freelance Language Teachers and their ICT Training Needs; Ursula Stickler and Martina Emke 4. Online Language Teaching: The Learner's Perspective; Linda Murphy 5. Transforming Teaching: New Skills for Online Language Learning Spaces; Ursula Stickler and Regine Hampel 6. Free Online Training Spaces for Language Teachers; Joseph Hopkins 7. Sharing: Open Educational Resources for Language Teachers; Anna Comas-Quinn and Kate Borthwick 8. Online Communities of Practice: A Professional Development Tool for Language Educators; Aline Germain-Rutherford 9. Theoretical Approaches and Research-based Pedagogies for Online Teaching; Regine Hampel 10. Developing Online Teaching Skills: The DOTS Project; Mateusz-Milan Stanojevi? 11. Using DOTS Materialsfor Professional Development of English Teachers in Turkey: Teachers' Views; Süleyman Ba?aran, Emrah Cinkara, and Ne?e Cabaro?lu