I have been very fortunate to have taught English online to a variety of students, particularly with the Preply platform. Coincidentally, I have taught on-and-off with Preply for four years now, and it certainly helped during the pandemic. Fast forward from March 2020, and everyone seems to have jumped on the ‘online teaching bandwagon’ with many international institutions and organisations now singing the praises of how international students are able to connect with international teachers and now the entrance to online education is really now a laptop and a strong internet connection.

My response to an article published by the Guardian about English teachers employed to teach online courses for the British Council

This is in direct contradiction between how I approached the subject of online education during an international conference in Germany with other teacher training educators, and they dismayed online teaching as “not real teaching”. However, there is a growing regard for the skills required to teaching online – we only have to see Cambridge offering the online CELTA course or Nile ELT offering online courses to accommodate the growing need and desire to deliver online language courses.

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