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The Transition to
Digital Learning and
Teaching
… and beyond
Jonathan Dykes - 2016

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Ambient Insight report – ‘The 2013-3108 Worldwide
Digital English Language Learning Market’ – Aug. 2014
2013 2018
Digital
products

3. 1. Inside the classroom
2. Beyond the classroom
3. The future of language
learning
The transition to digital learning and
teaching:

4. Classroom in the 1940s

5. Classroom in 1990s

6. The arrival of ICT (1990s)

7. Then Interactive white boards (2000s)

8. Lap tops and Tablet computers (2010s)

9. These days - Powerful learning tools in our pockets

10. Debate: How and when to use technology in the
classroom…
Techno sceptics like Scott Thornbury say rarely, if at all…

11. Navigating the narrow canal of the course book/syllabus

12. A motley flotilla of little boats …

13. Dramatic shifts in our
communication landscape
have made it crucial for
language teaching to go
beyond print literacy and
encompass the digital
literacies which are
increasingly central to
learners' personal, social,
educational and
professional lives.

14. Part 2 - Beyond the classroom
IH Barcelona

15. Traditional teaching and
learning system

16. Traditional catchment area

17. New, Web-based teaching and
learning system

18. New catchment area

19. The Founding Fathers of Net Languages
Jonathan Dykes Scott ThornburyGavin Dudney

20. Our clients (1) - Over 100 universities in Turkey
= 2,5 million students

21. Our clients (2) - Consortium of 8 universities
in Hong Kong

22. VTC login page

23. Net Languages homepage

24. Range of course formats:

25. Online classes with
teacher
Self study with
intertactive
content
Net Languages
Premium
course
Group classes
using NL
Essential
course
New project: Group teaching online

26. New project: Group teaching online

27. Advantages of organising classes on a digital platform
For the student:
 No need to spend
time and money
travelling
 Possibility of
studying with
students from other
countries
 Course fee may be
cheaper
For the school:
 Catchment area
increases
dramatically
 No need for large
premises (rent and
rates)
 Lower overhead
costs (heating,
lighting, cleaning,
etc.)

28. Key question: if everyone can teach anywhere,
what competitive advantages are available?
 Price
 Differentiation
- quality of teachers
- customer care
- course design and content

29. To summarise:
Digital technologies allow us to teach beyond
the classroom in various ways:
A) Blended learning solutions
B) Distance learning
Questions:
Do we still need classrooms?
Do we still need teachers?

30. Lindsay
Clandfield
#IHBCNELT

31. Part 3 – the digital future

32. “VR is the new platform” – Mark Zuckerberg, Feb. 2016

34. Augmented/Virtual Reality revenue forecast revised to
hit $120 billion by 2020

35. From The Economist – April 2016
In a decade’s time computing seems likely to
take a form of AR interfaces, mediated by AI,
using gestures and speech for inputs and the
whole world as its display.
Information will be painted onto the world
around you, making possible new forms of
communication, creativity and collaboration.

36. 5 - 10 years from now?
The “Babel fish”
From “A Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy”
by Douglas Adams
(1978)

37. Google has revealed plans to turn phones
into “universal translators”, allowing
owners to speak into a device in one
language, while the person they are calling
hears it in their mother tongue.
The Babel fish mobile is on its way ...
Yes, you heard correctly
- July 26th 2013

38. So we may all have to retire soon… But not yet!

39. Thanks for listening!
www.netlanguages.info
jdykes@bcn.ihes.com
jonathandykesblog.wordpress.com