MM
I flagged many issues, but ASU replied saying they were fixed, so I highly recommend the course if problems have really been fixed.

Whether you have already taught English as a Second Language and want to start teaching it online, you've already been teaching ESL online and want to sharpen your skills, or you are new to teaching and interested in teaching ESL online, ASU and VOXY provide you with the basic ideas and concepts you need to know in order to successfully teach ESL online. This course uses a fun and interesting theme of "International Travel" to deliver content in an entertaining way. There are also plenty of real, recorded online session videos from VOXY in the course to show you examples of what it looks like to teach ESL online. In this course, you will learn about the best practices for teaching English as a Second Language online. This includes an introduction to online teaching, Second Language Acquisition theories and how they apply to ESL learners, conducting a needs analysis, curating content for your courses, designing lesson plans, and effective teaching strategies that will help you to become an successful online ESL teacher. The course consists of a variety of videos and readings, followed by quizzes. In the last module of the course, actual VOXY online ESL teachers share their experiences in the online classroom.

MM
I flagged many issues, but ASU replied saying they were fixed, so I highly recommend the course if problems have really been fixed.
MD
This course is an excellent choice for anyone interested in teaching ESL. Weekly Lessons/Modules are well-planned. Videos were informative and enjoyable. The instructor, Emilia, was wonderful!
TC
Very meaty course! touched on a lot of important information beneficial to ESL teachers. Great refresher too, for older more experienced teachers.
JS
Enjoyed every moment, especially as the main focus of this course is practical application, e.g. lesson plans, pair work, etc.. Thank you, Arizona State University!
AU
its such a nice course! learned a lot of useful concepts and theories. the teaching methodology was quite amazing. highly recommended,
HS
This course is wonderful! I have learned a great deal and am excited to use what I've learned in the future. I highly recommend this course! Thank you, instructor!
AS
Excellent content presented in a well organized way. I really got a lot out of this course an I highly recommend it.
KA
It gave me clues on how to be an effective teacher whether I teach ESL or other subjects. Really helpful to for beginner teacher like me.
DH
This was a great course! It alleviated many of my worries about online teaching. Thank you for creating this course.
MH
this was a perfect course it helped me to develop my methodology in teaching and at the same time it is easy to learn in this way which is funny and beneficial
RP
I learned a lotiI would like to thank coursera for giving me this wonderful opportunity. I'm taking another couse here.
VT
This is a course about Task Based Language Learning in an online environment. It may not be suitable for all types of language learning, but gives helpful tips and advice.
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Great skills though the practicum is too expensive. Thanks for the wonderful experience though.
Overall, the course was helpful, but it needs some better QA.
The pop-up quizzes during the videos were often right BEFORE the material answering the question was presented. (So you could only answer the question correctly if you read ahead in the transcript before answering.)
The fill-in-the-blank questions were very hard to get right. Even when I copied text verbatim from the course, it was marked wrong. E.g., "switching pairs for each activity" was wrong, I needed to enter "switch pairs." A human would have marked my initial response correct.
Some of the multiple-choice, multiple-answer questions were also frustrating, such as "why do you take notes during the lesson?" -- there would be one answer clearly supported by the course material, but the lesson quizzes demanded multiple answers to be marked correct. But then when you got to the same exact question on the final exam, it was a single-answer multiple -choice question.
It's awful. Most of quizes are incorrect with answers, that students can't find in the course videos. For example, quiz 2 in week 4 has questions that we even haven't heard before. In order to have 100% for quiz 1 in week 1 you must choose incorrect answer in question 7 (or it doesn't relate to this week). What is more, you need to pay approximately 25 dollars for that profanation! I've already passed three courses from ASUs' TESOL certification, and those courses were awesome, they have really helped me in my present career. But, nevertheless, this course is a shame for the entire Arizona State University. Fix it, please, or don't lie to your students!
This is a course about Task Based Language Learning in an online environment. It may not be suitable for all types of language learning, but gives helpful tips and advice.
Good solid background course for teaching language on-line. Some course material seemed out-of-order, and some was repeated. However, all material was applicable, and I enjoyed the presentation and pace of the course. Thank you!
I was really disappointed with this course. I have done 2 other courses (MOOCs) through Coursera, which were really excellent. When I saw that this course was presented by Arizona State Uni, I expected it to be of a very high calibre, but uncovered the sad truth that it was the opposite.
For example, the readings were riddled with errors and had they been run through a basic spelling and grammar checker, these could have rectified. The transcriptions were not accurate, full of errors and Braedon's (lead male role in the videos) name was spelled in at least 4 different ways. The formatting was almost nonexistent.
Whilst the overall concept of the videos (Braedon's world tour) was interesting, the execution was very sub-standard for a US university. I found Emelia's mannerisms quite puerile at times, and could the producer not have afforded a second videocam or smartphone to take 2 shots of the conversation scenes? Theses scenes came across as totally unnatural with both participants looking at the single camera, whereas in a normal conversation, they would be looking at each other.
There was no formatting of readings until unit 6, just straight text with no headers, bold, underlining, etc. So really boring and not engaging at all. With just a little effort, the readings for the first 5 units and the transcripts of videos could have formatted neatly to make them much more useful and readable, for instance, by separating the script per speaker.
On the whole, once I could figure it out, the content was quite useful, though something that could be addressed is the various activities which could be used per skill when teaching online and especially with a single student. These will obviously be different to F2F teaching, so this would be a useful addition to the course.
the only difficulty for M-1 , L1 instructions are not given clearly means for last question it was asking to apply all choices of answers where as not for other which really consumed lot of time. we would have used this consumed time for other learning or other worthy work. such a great university to whom I will be very grateful because really i have learnt a lot in this course about how to teach English online ; but really very much disappointed for the time i have wasted for M1-L1 quize. please add clear instructions to attempt question.
I most say that, i am richly beefed up for the challenges ahead in my online classes. Before i did this course had alot of doubts, but now, there is no mountain facing me now that i cannot surpass. Thanks alot for everything. Ready for the future now, to meet all my learner's needs.
I flagged many issues, but ASU replied saying they were fixed, so I highly recommend the course if problems have really been fixed.
This is a good, easy, friendly course that will help you if you want to get into the world of teaching languages online.
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I liked this course very much!!! Because it gave me not knowledge how to conudct a lesson online, but also to it gave me confidence that it is not so difficult as I thought about it to be. I fancied the structure of this course, step by step you acquire thohse skills you need. Especially, I liked the section about Feedback and Lesson plan. I liked videos. I liked the quizes especially, even if some quizes seemed to me difficult, some not, but there were some difficulties with those questions where were several answers. I would like to appreciate and thank all teachers who created and participated in creation of this useful course!
It's a very well-made course. I loved being taught by Emilia because she looked so passionate by doing this course. One thing I didn't like a lot were the bad acting most of the people did, even Emilia sometimes, It seemed very fake and nothing authentic, however it is a very appropiate course if you want to introduce yourself in Online Teaching, it summarizes everything you need to know before starting teachinn online and it has a lot of REAL RECORDED EXAMPLES which was the thing I enjoyed the most.
This course taught me a great deal of how to run an effective online English teaching course. I highly recommend to both traditional English teachers who want to broaden their territory of their career and to those who just want to start teaching English in a fascinating way. In the end, I want to express my gratitude to instructors for creating such great experience.
Course material and organization of the course are great. Though it's an online course , I felt like the instructors are with me in my efforts to take my first steps of online teaching. The theory is so systematic, scientific and interactive that makes me more enthusiastic about creating my first online lessons. Thanks to Coursera and Arizona University People.
Wonderful course! I felt great going through evidence based teaching methods and the pleasing demeanor of Emilia. The fictional video simulations were well choreographed. Overall, I loved it.
The course would've been better had there been more samples of what online lessons for different macroskills at various levels (of English) looked like. Also, a list of resources (e.g. where to find authentic listening or reading materials) would've been very helpful. Finally, there could've been at least a module spent on teaching academic English online. On the technical side, there were errors with how one of the (earlier) quizzes was set up (as noted in the Discussion Forum).
It's almost impossible to give the right answer to the questions in which you have to type, even knowing the right answer.
On the second test of the first week is not possible to give a right answer to the seventh question.
Be careful. This is NOT part of the TESOL certificate program.
Good content, but that is all. No peer interaction, no possible way of asking questions or talking with someone from the course staff. Several errors in the quizzes which nobody bothers to correct