A warm welcome to all of the participants of the Advance Teaching Skills course "Teaching Online".
I am delighted to see your interest in this specialized field of teaching a language to learners around the world in real-time.
These are still early days and you are "early adopters", you are "webinerds".
This course will hopefully prove to be a step in your career. And we are not talking about replacing your local teaching with online teaching. Well, it is more like: we have two legs, one should be the offline one and one should be online. You stand firm using both legs and if you decide to move on from one teaching post to the other, it might be easier for you if you keep getting income from online jobs.
And even if you don't get more work through teaching online.... this can happen... then you will be able to get to know your colleagues and will learn where you can turn to for professional development. There are many online courses, yes, even Master degree programs online.
There are many opportunities.
Look forward to meeting you online!
rgds Heike
Thanks, Heike Philp. Do share that "webinerds" photo you showed me - it's a classic! :D
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