About Eric
Baber
I
am an educational technologist with a range of interests related to the
use of technology in education and educational publishing.
Professional portfolio
My portfolio and
background includes:
- Since September
2008: Innovations Director in the New Directions Group of Cambridge
University Press. This role includes exploring new technologies potentially
of interest to CUP; fostering innovation within the organisation; and
seeking out and establishing relationships and partnerships with related
or complementary organisations
- Pre-September
2008: Associate Lecturer for the Open University's courses in Learning
in the Connected Economy, Innovations
in eLearning and Exploring
the English Language
- Online tutor on
the Institute of Education's course in Online
Education and Training
- Online tutor for
The Consultants-E's courses in Learning
How to Use Moodle and Teaching
Business English
- Key author for
the Cambridge University Press Professional
English Online website
- Designing and
running tailor-made seminars, workshops and training courses for institutions
in the private and state sectors around the world. For more on the types
of training I offer please visit the Training
page
- Consulting on
issues related to the implementation of ICT in educational environments.
Clients have included the British Council, Cambridge University Press,
and Queen Margaret University College
- Online Course
Designer for Royal Holloway University of London (2002 - 2006).
- Co-founder and
Director of NetLearn Languages,
an online-only language school which has been teaching around 10 languages
live online since 1998. We also held the first ELT-specific online conference,
the ELToc, in November 2002. We furthermore
e-publish the
ELT Newsletter, a website
featuring articles by and for teachers of English as a foreign/second
language, updated weekly
- Giving plenary
and other talks at conferences and other events; please see the Talks
page for more on this
- Author of articles
in a range of publications as well as a number of books - see below
My main areas of
interest are researching new technologies, assessing them for usability
for educational and publishing purposes, developing suitable methodologies
and course content and training educationalists in their uses.
Organisational affiliations
- Since April 2010:
Vice-President of IATEFL,
the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
- 2006 - 2009: Joint
Coordinator of BESIG,
the Business English Special Interest Group of IATEFL
- Since 2009: Member
of the Executive Committee of ELIG,
the European Learning Industry Group
- Member of TESOL
Publications
50
Ways to Improve your Business English Using the Internet, Summertown
Publishing 2007. Also available from Amazon here.
Co-author of the
book Teaching
English with Information Technology, Keyways Publishing/Modern
English Publishing 2005. An extract in Adobe Acrobat format is
available here.
Co-author of the
chapter “Best Practice and Practical Considerations of Language
Instruction via Internet Audio/Videoconferencing” in U. Felix (ed.)
Language
Learning Online: Towards Best Practice, Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger
(2003)
Numerous articles
in publications including the BBC English magazine, the EL Gazette, IATEFL
Issues, the BESIG Newsletter, the LTSIG newsletter et al.
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