Course Nr.: #5 Technology and blended Language Teaching
Target Groups
Teachers responsible for language teaching in secondary, vocational and adult education.
Dates / Locations
2025
Utrecht: October 19 – 24
2026
Utrecht: April 27 – May 1; July 19 – 24; October 11 – 16
Leuven (BE): August 9 – 14
Course Aims
This course aims to:
- further develop relevant teachers competences and confidence when combining face-to-face classes, technology-enhanced active learning and online resources in language education
- develop online language pedagogies and enhance participants’ e-didactic repertoire involving
- competences to develop design based teaching and learning activities and related materials
- promoting teacher professionalism in evaluating and selecting methodologies, available content, apps and tools
Methodology
The general educational principles addressed in this course will include:
– demonstrations of useful applications, exemplary materials and teaching practices related to a variety of modern language learning curriculum components and related methodologies
and
-hands-on activities carried out by participants individually, in pairs and/or small groups include sharing practices, exploring tools, analyzing video clips and related lesson activities and creating content to be used in participants’ personal practice.
To address the anticipated variety in participants’ interests and needs (in terms of tools, pedagogical approach, target groups and individual technology skills level) most tasks are designed in such a way that they can lead to differentiated relevant learning experiences and outcomes.
To provide flexible access to course related tasks and resources a course learning management system (LMS) will be used.
After the course access is offered to participants to promote follow-up communication and collaborative learning when exchanging experiences with redesigned local practice samples.
A pre-course, online questionnaire could be provided to assess pre-knowledge and further align course content and procedures to needs and interests.
Day-to-Day Course Topics
The planning below is for the Utrecht session in April 2026
(The Agenda for all other course editions is based on 6 days)
Day 1
• Meet & Greet / Introductions
• Cultural Event: National King’s Day
Koningsdag Day | Ultimate Guide to the Netherlands’ Biggest Celebration
Day 2
• Course overview / Questionnaire review / finetuning expectations
• Identifying forms of online and blended learning and teaching synchronously and asynchronously using videoconferencing, interactive technologies and screencasting to promote collaboration and creativity.
• Models and approaches to designing online teaching and learning
• Structuring online discussions for convergent and divergent thinking
• Briefing on the course summative task: designing (components for) a (micro) teaching unit for local practice
Day 3
• Analysing and developing a variety of clip types (e.g presentation, instructional, schoolboard, knowledge, smartphone based)
• Designing collaborative activities
• Analysing and developing flipping-the-language classroom strategies
• Structuring lessons, modules & projects
• Writing web instructions
Day 4
• Monitoring progress, tools and procedures to support formative assessment activities and giving feedback, online coaching
• Developing and supporting student literacies and motivation for online learning
• Teacher visibility (communication strategies, contact moments, online coaching)
• Online assessment & testing
• Designing (components for) a (micro) teaching unit for local practice
• Using / integrating Open Educational Resources
Day 5
• Finishing materials & micro teaching unit
• Presenting & reviewing materials
• Briefing on follow-up activities (blended format), strategies for further professional development and sharing your know-how & ideas within your school)
• Course wrap-up, evaluation and certification
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