What makes English360 different?
Many "English on the internet" products just take links and textbook exercises and put them on the web. Some have even claimed to "replace the teacher."
We've taken a different approach. Designed for teachers, by teachers, the English360 learning platform leverages what the web does best: connect people with people, connect people to digital tools, and support the collaboration, creativity, and learning that results. As an open platform, e360 gives you an easy, simple way to teach with newer web approaches such as social software, tagging, and dynamic, user-generated content.
Designed for classroom, online, and blended learning, English360 helps you to:
- Set up your platform with your school’s identity and logo; students log in from your website
- Integrate an ongoing needs assessment process into your lessons and courses
- Find, share, or create personalised lessons to print for class, or to assign online
- Establish a web presence for each of your courses, with blogs, forums and e-learning
- Schedule classes, deliver feedback, and record and report attendance
- Integrate authentic materials, set up portfolios, and organise project-based learning
And most importantly, these tools are all backed up with a comprehensive, digital materials bank of collaborative content from the e360 community and our partners at Cambridge University Press.
English360 is the easy, simple way to bring your teaching into the digital era. But we've done more than just build some cool technology. We've designed the technology to support what we believe is the future of education: a radically student-centered vision of collaborative, personalized, performance-based learning.
Open to all, but with a special focus on business English and ESP.
How can I participate?
If you share this vision, we'd like to invite you to help shape the final version of the e360 community before launch in summer 2009. So, we're setting up a piloting program for selected teachers and schools who would like to try e360 out and give us their feedback. To enroll in the pilot program, or to receive updates, just fill out the form below. Thanks!