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language proficiency tests brought an understanding of the learning and teaching
requirements of online delivery. Graeme has successfully integrated this knowledge
into REW’s Beyond Level 4 blended learning products.

Jacqueline Douglas has been an English language teacher since 1997, working in
the UK, Turkey, Spain and Bolivia. She is also an experienced teacher trainer and has
delivered courses in the UK, China, Thailand, Bolivia, Peru and Saudi Arabia. She has
worked as a CELTA tutor for eight years, delivering courses at International House,
London. Additionally she is a CELTA Assessor. Among various in-house materials
development projects at IH London, Jacqueline helped to write the Cambridge CELTA
Online. She also taught demonstration lessons for the online input and worked as
Teaching Practice Tutor on the Pilot Course in 2011. She has recently completed an
MA with Norwich Institute of Language Education, focusing on Learner Autonomy and
Materials Development.

Gavin Dudeney is Director of Technology of The Consultants-E, an online teacher
training and development consultancy. He has been involved in English as a Foreign
Language (EFL) teaching and teacher training since 1989, and has (co-)authored a
number of methodology books on ICT in English Language Teaching (ELT) including
The Internet & The Language Classroom, How to Teach English with Technology, and
most recently Digital Literacies (2013). He is currently working on a book about
mobile learning, with Nicky Hockly.
Natalya Eydelman has been teaching English for about 20 years but still finds
teaching exciting and challenging. Throughout her career she has taught a variety
of courses, with academic writing and ICT for ELT Methods courses among her
favourites. For several years now she has been teaching them as blends. She has
taught a number of INSET courses devoted to the use of technology in the classroom
in face-to-face and blended modes. Natalya has also worked as a moderator of an
online course ICT in ELT for the British Council. In 2010 she completed a course of
study in the master’s programme in TESOL and ICT at the University of Leeds on
a Hornby Trust Scholarship. Her thesis is devoted to the study of affordances and
limitations of asynchronous tools such as blogs and wikis for peer-editing. She has
presented the results of her research at a number of national and international
conferences, including IATEFL (2010 –12). Presentations included Peer commentary
made better (2012), Peer-editing using MS Word, blogs, and wikis: how to make the
most of them? (2011), and Using Writing Portfolios in Academic Writing Courses (2010).
Liz Fleet is a teacher trainer and English teacher. At the time of this case study,
she worked for the British Council as an Assistant Programme Manager at Al Azhar
English Training Centre in Cairo. She currently works at Liaoning University in China.
She specialises in ICT integration and has a master’s degree in Digital Technologies
Communication and Education. She has wide experience of using online learning
platforms in ELT and has designed various wiki-blended courses, in relation to
general and academic English.

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