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Client / Project Portfolio

The Consultants-E team members have been involved in online course design, teaching, learning and evaluation since 1993. Amongst our clients, we have worked for the following:

 tri British Council PICT Project [2007-2008]
International project consultants for the British Council ‘Primary ICT’ (PICT) project, researching the application of ICT in primary school ELT in Korea, Singapore, Japan and Malaysia.

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tri National Training Foundation (NTF) Russia [2007-2008]
Online and f2f training project for Russian teachers of English in the use of ICT in teaching, developing online communities, and e-moderation skills.

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tri Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada [March - August 2007]
Second Life Initial Training seminars
Design, landscaping and build of complete island sim for the Institute

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tri Cambridge ESOL [June 2007]
Online training in E-moderation skills for a group of Joint Chief Assessors (JCAs) for Cambridge ESOL.

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tri English360 [2007]
Design and development of online and blended learning materials and resources for Business English learners, using English360’s proprietary authoring tools and platform.

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tri European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) [2007]
Design and development of training materials and short online courses for the European Bioinformatics Institute based in Cambridge, UK. Training for EBI staff in e-moderation techniques, and using Moodle. EBI deals in genomes, DNA and other biology related data and the courses and materials help train end users in sequence, patent and literature search techniques on the EBI databases.

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OVID [2005 - present]
Development of online training resources for the OVID suite of database products. Flash-based tutorials developed by the Consultants-E viewable here.

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tri English UK [2005 - present]
Regular training days, workshops and conference presentations for EnglishUK in both England and Scotland.

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tri Kaplan Education [2005-2006]
Design and development of an in-service online teacher training package for Kaplan language teachers.

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Hornby Summer School, Moscow [August 2007]                                                            
Course Directors for f2f international summer school looking at the applications of technology in the classroom

. The British Council [2003 to date]
Consulted for the British Council UK on the global introduction of Moodle as the corporate learning platform.

eTwinning [2006]
Materials development for the British Council’s eTwinning School partnership in Europe project, at both secondary and primary level

British Council Offshoots
Consultancy on best practice in the distribution of British Council media from seminars, courses and conferences. Installation of Moodle as a delivery platform, Moodle training for administrators and content providers.

British Council Outreach
Project planning and consultancy for joint British Council / IATEFL Outreach project to bring the annual conference to a larger audience, using the VLE Moodle

British Council Seminars

  • Planning, organisation and direction of a one-week seminar for the British Council dealing with ICT in ELT
  • Website consultancy and moderator training for the British Council Global Village community website.
  • Guest facilitators at the Bournemouth Teacher Association seminar June 2004, training in online communications and community building for developing associations.
  • Online training in e-moderation skills for Russian teachers and teacher trainers involved in online teacher development - for (and funded by) the British Council Moscow.
  • Technical and pedagogical evaluation of the British Council Poland ICC teacher websites, and of British Council Turkey online training courses.
  • Online teacher training in Internet project work for key British Council teachers involved in the English for Peacekeeping Purposes project (Central and Eastern Europe)
  • Two-week face-to-face teacher training course in inter-cultural communications and the Internet, for the British Council Poland.
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tri Socrates (European Union) Projects [2000 - present]

LIPS: Linguistic and Intercultural
Preparation of Students for the workplace
[2007 – 2008]
Design and build of educational project space on EduNation III in Second Life.

MiCALL [2004 – 2007]
External evaluators for Comenius 2.1 European project in teacher training, MiCALL, which promotes the development for and dissemination of knowledge on teacher competencies involved in designing language learning arrangements for distributed learners.

Teaching Culture! [ 2004 - present ]
External evaluators for Grundtvig 1 online project for teachers in adult education, focussing on the development of online inter-cultural teaching materials.

ELTAE [2005]
External evaluators for Grundtvig 1.1 European project in teacher training.

Open Sesame [2000]
Development of standardised descriptors for online portfolio preparation.

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The Scottish Executive [2004 - 2005]
Development of distributed training materials in the field of Community Safety as part of a larger consortium.

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IATEFL [2002 to date]
Counsultancy and design work on support websites for a number of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.

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Cambridge University Press [2002 to date]
Project management of a series of CD ROMs to accompany a new set of ELT textbooks due for publication in 2005
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Trinity Examinations Board [2004 - present]
Online training in e-moderation skills for Trinity Certificate and Diploma tutors, moderators and course providers. Design, implementation and tutoring of the online ICT in the Classroom course , which is quality assured by Trinity College London ..

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School for International Training (SIT) [2005]
Online training in e-moderation skills for key faculty in the Teacher Training and Professional Development Institute.

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tri International House Barcelona [2006]
Installation, configuration and customisation of Moodle for new initiative in distance teacher training and translation courses. Moodle training for administrative, content creation and teaching staff.

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International House London [2005]
Adaptation of Language Teaching Management modules to online delivery. Set-up and customisation of Moodle for course management. Training for key staff.

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International House World Organisation [2004]
Counsultancy work on the implementation of a learning platform for the worldwide organisation.

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Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College [2004]
Online e-moderation training for key faculty members of the Dept. of Business, Dept. of Law and HRM, and the Dept. of Economics and Marketing..

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University of Thessaloniki, Northern Greece [2004]
Teacher training and development seminars for learners on MA in Language Teaching. This will be followed up early 2005 by a 50-hour MA module in the application of ICT in the field of language teaching.

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ESADE [1997 to date]
Teacher development courses in materials design and the practical application of ICT in education as part of the Mediterranean Institute summer programme (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004).

Seminars and workshops for practising teachers since 1997.

Teacher training and development needs analysis workshop early 2004 which has led to us advising the faculty on their long-term development strategy, as well as leading a variety of seminars in this area.

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Cris Bolivar Consultancy [2002 to date]
Development of an online add-on course for face-to-face coaching in the business and managerial sector, involving feasability and usability studies, interface and VLE design.

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La Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana [1998 - 2003]
Design and implementation of materials for an interuniversity online Master of Arts (MA) in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), using Web CT. Design and implementation of online tutor training courses.

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Netlanguages [1997 - 2003]
Design, development and technical implementation of a range of online language and training courses for the educational sector as part of a large team of writers, designers and programmers.

 

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