Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi is a brand new, English-medium university in Turkey. Each student is provided with a computer and most of the teaching and learning is expected to make use of online as well as other, more traditional, resources. Faculty teaching began in October 2014, but prior to entering the undergraduate programme, students are expected to display a particular level of English language knowledge – either through an exemption test or by passing out of the university’s preparatory English programme. The School of Foreign Languages has been delivering this programme since September 2013 and has adopted the rather unusual approach of delivering the four main skills areas (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening) in four separate courses. In this presentation, I explored some of the challenges and issues which have arisen from the expectation to work in a largely digital environment. How do you go about using the technology in an appropriate way, when everyone in the institution is expected to be delivering teaching and learning by computer? What learning curves are involved both in using the computers, and associated technology, and what is their impact on teacher and student alike? How does an explicit encouragement of the use of computers affect the design and development of curricula and materials? And, in the end, is using computer any more effective than ‘traditional’ methods, such as pencil-and-paper?