Registration is now open for the following 10-week online training courses for EFL educators in 2009:

 

Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into the Language Classroom

 

Shaping the Way We Teach English, Best Practices Around the World

 

AEI Faculty are also available for teacher training lectures and workshops delivered via digital videoconferencing (DVC).

 

Costs vary, depending on the number of sessions and other factors. For more information, please contact:
Leslie Opp-Beckman, leslieob@uoregon.edu

 

PREVIOUS COURSES AND LEARNING EVENTS

University of Oregon's American English Institute (AEI) has been offering online distance learning courses and programs to educators and students from around the world since 1996. Following are some examples of previous and ongoing projects.

• Oregon-Iraq Guided Online English Studies (GOES), 2008-09, for:
  English Language Learners (ELLs), and a
  TandemTraining Course for English Language Teachers (ELTs).
  
  

• Tools and Tips for E-Learning, 2008-09.
  DVC Lectures with EFL Educators in Costa Rica.
  
  

• E-Teacher Program, Critical Thinking Skills, 2004-09.
  10-week EFL teacher training courses sponsored through the E-Teacher Program in the Office of English Language Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State (DOS), Fall 2004-Spring 2008. Registration is coordinated through the E-Teacher Program.
  
  

• Shaping the Way We Teach English, 2006-09.
  A 10-week video-based EFL teacher training course sponsored through the U.S. Department of State. Educators from the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia participated Fall 2006. Fall 2007 EFL educators from Central and South America successfully completed this course. Spring 2008 through the present, we welcome educators from the Levant region (Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan) and Iraq. Also available online: Links to the "Shaping" materials.
  
  

• Thai-UO Videoconferencing Series, 2003-08.
  A digital videoconferencing (DVC) EFL teacher training course offered in partnership with the U.S. Embassy Bangkok, the Royal Thai Distance Learning Foundation, Chulalongkorn University, ThaiTESOL, TOT Communications in Thailand, and the Thai Ministry of Education.
  
  

• Online English Language Center, 2003-06.
  Originally a joint project with the Office of English Language Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State to provide self-access teacher resources. Now a stand-alone site.
  
  

• Introduction to Computer Assisted Language Learning though the Web, Fall 2002.
  An EFL teacher training course with the Kuwait Ministry of Education.
  
  

• Africa Online: Using Web-Based Resources to Develop Content-Based Materials, Fall 2001.
  An EFL teacher training course through the Office of English Language Programs, US Department of State.
  
  

• Computer-Enhanced Language Teaching, 1999-2002.
  EFL educator development online and face-to-face with the Integrated English Language Program II (IELP II) in Egypt.
  
  

• UO-Senshu Project for Academic English.
  Online tutoring using the Fluency First approach with students at Senshu University, 1996-2002.
  
  

• Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
  Incorporating Information Technology Resources in English Language Teaching. An EFL teacher training course, Winter 2002.
  
  

• English for Young Learners.
  An EFL teacher training course, Winter 2002.

 

CONTACT

For more information on program options and costs, please contact:

 

Leslie Opp-Beckman, Senior Instructor and Distance Education & Technology Coordinator
Email: leslieob@uoregon.edu or Web Contact Form
+1 (541) 346-3917, FAX
+1 (541) 346-3945, Office