Blogs on 'EdTech'

What is the future of English language teaching in schools? What do we need to do to support the future of English language education? Who decides on the curriculum? Read a summary of the discussions in this final part in our series of blogs reflecting on the week-long SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event.

In this blog, on the penultimate day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus on educational technology. The speakers discussed the role they see technology playing in education by 2040.

In this blog, on the third day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus on learners and their future needs for work. Questions and discussions centred on where we work, how we work, and how this will have to change for the future.

In this blog, on the second day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus specifically on what education will look like in 20 years’ time.

In this blog, we focus on the first day of the five-day event which aimed to unpack social issues facing the future of education, demonstrate the complexity of the issues in global and local contexts, and identify ways that we might respond to the emerging challenges.

Over the last 12 months existing digital platforms used to deliver English learning and assessment have been fully road tested, but what does this mean for the teacher of the future? To answer this question we look at the types of technology that are making an impact in language education.

As the call and need for digital assessment continues to grow, across Cambridge Assessment we are actively exploring what qualifications purely designed for delivery and taking in a digital format might look like.

eLearning Manager for Cambridge Assessment International Education, Andrew Field, looks at teaching and technology in 2021 and the opportunities for the future.

The Cambridge Assessment Group has produced a range of resources and digital products that can support and enable remote teaching and learning.

Dan Frost, Learning Technology Lead at Cambridge Assessment English and part of the team behind the SHAPE initiative, reflects on the online event and its outcomes.

Video games have become a mainstream phenomenon. Despite this, many people don’t realise how beneficial video games can be for language learning, and for learning more generally. We explore the potential benefits of video games for English language learners and challenge some of the common misconceptions that exist about video games.

The novel coronavirus outbreak presents huge and unexpected challenges for the education community worldwide. As an international exams group, Cambridge Assessment has a range of resources and digital products available that can support and enable remote teaching and learning.

Dr Julia Yu, Cambridge International’s Regional Professional Development Manager for East Asia, shares how the novel coronavirus has impacted on teaching and learning in China.

Saul Nassé has to get creative with a selfie stick and gaffer tape while delivering a speech in Tasmania.

Saul Nassé, Group Chief Executive at Cambridge Assessment, looks back at how far virtual reality technology has come, and forward to how it may change the way we learn.

Our latest guest blogger offers an insight into the drivers behind the move to an 'international education' in China.

Saul Nassé is inspired by a creative approach to language learning at The University of Sydney, which sees students become Manga comic book heroes.

'Telly teaching' and laptops for all - Janet Morris discovers technological innovations in education in Uruguay and Buenos Aires.

Saul Nassé, Chief Executive of Cambridge English, travels back to the future of IELTS in California.

Concorde and college tours were on the agenda as Cambridge hosted 150 representatives from 40 universities around the world at this year's SAP Higher Education and Research User Group (HERUG) meeting.