English360
(Created by the English360 team on 26 Jul 2011 Creative Commons + Attribution)
English360 is a blended learning and self-management tool developed to help you create and deliver customizable courses and resources in a versatile way.
English360 is an easy-to-use, customizable online learning platform, which has been developed to help educators deliver personalized Business English, General English or English for Specific Purposes (ESP) learning programs.
English360 makes it easier for you to create courses and supplementary resources, providing activities for your learners to complete online, in the classroom, or a combination of these, and which may involve them working independently or with others.
You can include a wide range of media from many different sources (for example: video, audio, documents created by you or by a fellow educator, interactive online activities and study materials from Cambridge University Press).
English360 does not dictate the content you should include in the courses and resources you develop. Instead, it provides you with a large selection of high-quality Cambridge University Press learning materials from which you can copy into the courses you create either whole courses, individual units, pages or activity items. In addition, you can create your own course content using a range of activity item types, such as Fill-in-the-blanks or Multiple choice, as well as resources for your learners to refer to.
You may use English360 however you want:
- for e-learning – where learners attend classes with video or audio streamed over the internet
- for face-to-face lessons
- for blended learning – a combination of e-learning and face-to-face lessons
Associated Activities:
- Watch the following introductory videos
- Go to the english360 website and create an account free of charge or obligation to explore English360
Post your feedback on the activity page.
Mobile ESL
This is a course of lessons and practice on the system of English. It is divided into eighty-six sections. Each section covers an area of basic grammar and contains a number of exercises. The exercises are not all the same length. Some exercises have only five questions, but others have up to nine questions. This is because some areas of grammar are more important than others. This course tests your knowledge of English grammar and, more importantly, it gives you practice in using your knowledge to make correct and appropriate sentences. When you do the exercises, you will see that grammar is not just a game. Grammar has meaning – if you change some of the grammar in a sentence, you also change its meaning.
Associated Activities
- Go to the eslau.ca website and browse through the examples they offer for evaluation.
- If you are adventurous, download their source code from their http://eslau.ca website in a zip file and see if you are able to make adaptations or modifications.
Clearly apps are reshaping education with multiple opportunities to take charge of your own path and rate of progress. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the classroom over the next few years.
From an expat ESL teacher’s point of view having your resources on the cloud makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for this site.
Teaching across multiple locations in Canada certainly makes it easy to access material, especially when I’m teaching the same content. My challenge though is that where I work, we barely have computers, and Internet is not always reliable. People don’t want to give non-profits $ for infrastructure – services yes. Budgets are not big enough to sign up for something like English 360.
Moreover, The AU app seems to focus on grammar and concepts are not clearly explained enough for low level students. I can see how getting them to use this site would be a nightmare. Also given the emphasis of the EAL industry on communicative competence, I was wondering if there are any free cloud-based apps for reading, writing,listeing and speaking skills. There are lots of good sites like esl-lab, paragraph punch and elllo and english4u, but these are websites not cloud based apps. Any suggestions?