Teaching adult learners with courseSites: my experience in creating online courses for teacher training

My next post is about my experience on using the website courseSites for teacher training. This website is user friendly and free. Here is a tutorial. It works very well with adult learners and for language upskill courses.

Here is a screenshot of one of the tasks posted at this free website. The task involved texting with a mobile phone.

This task created enough content to build a unit of work. It was very motivating. My aim was to find a task that would provide authentic learning

This is the story the student and I created. Each colour refers to a single message.

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