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The LANCELOT Course is a 3-month teacher training course with focus on teaching a language in a virtual classroom setting using state-of-the-art synchronous Internet Communication Technology.

It also is a career opportunity, that enables language teachers to reach beyond their national boundaries for work, to engage in an unparalleled training experience and networks him or her with language teaching professionals around the globe.

This course enables language trainers to

• use virtual classroom technlogy to conduct live online language lessons in the framework of a live online blended learning scenario
• enable language trainers to adapt their teaching practise to the live online medium
• understand the implications of intercultural communicative competence in a live online environments
• design course material for the virtual classroom environment
• use a range of asynchronous tools in support of the learning progress

On-line learning gives the student a great opportunity to interact with different people from different countries and cutlures. It also gives the teacher a great experience and joy to work with people from different parts of the world at the same time. It is really exciting to communicate with people in such an environment. Neslihan Balticioglu in Turkey

Learning the different tools availabel on the Internet has been eye-opening for me. As I am not a technically friendly person by nature this has been rather overwhelming and has taken much time trying to work them all out...The Second Life experience was also out of this world. Wendy Stenhouse, Australian, English teacher in the Ukraine.