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Welcome to …. A Pedagogically Culturally Sensitive Electronic Professional Development Course for English Language Teachers. Presented by Paul Kebble. Please use hyperlinks where available. Presentation Structure: Background to e-PD 4 ELT course development

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  1. Welcome to …. A Pedagogically Culturally Sensitive Electronic Professional Development Course for English Language Teachers Presented by Paul Kebble Please use hyperlinks where available

  2. Presentation Structure: • Background to e-PD 4 ELT course development • Existing professional development and qualification courses • The advantages of an electronic professional development (e-PD) course • Outline of the E-PD 4 ELT course • Some initial problems • Feedback, questions and discussion

  3. UK Ras Al Khaimah Madeira Barbados Penang Brunei Cairns Perth Brisbane

  4. 1 The Distance DELTA is a program for experienced English language teachers developed by the British Council and International House, London. • Post-experience course for practicing teachers • Delivered via DVD, internet & local tutor • Use of e-communication, especially asynchronous • Theory Practice Assessment • No Personal Learning e-Environment (uses website) • No allowance for pedagogical cultural diversity 2 An online course believed to be in use in Vietnam

  5. Why e-PD? • e-PD can reach the places that other courses cannot reach • e-PD can utilise Action Research enabling participants to experiment in-situ • Action Research allows PD courses to be participant centred, not content centred • A participant-centred course is a culturally sympathetic course • e-PD allows synchronous and asynchronous connectivity • e-PD enables teachers in remote areas to feel professionally connected • Therefore, e-PD has the potential to be more effective than face-to-face PD courses

  6. e-PD 4 ELT • Cultural empathy • Non-prescriptive • Action Research paradigm • Practical textual & Video input • Personal Learning e-Environment (PLE) created with The online course

  7. Problems incurred • Choosing website software • Ethics clearance for video • Finding venue for video • Finding suitable teachers for videoing • Finding participants for e-PD 4 ELT course trials • Assessment of course participants

  8. Comments, questions and feedback, please.

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