Implementing online ELT in the time of crisis: ordeal or opportunity?

“The View from Here” is a feature which reports on specific topics of interest or issues being dealt with in diverse ELT contexts across the globe. Articles represent practitioners’ views of the issue within their own setting, written to help readers understand the local situation but with a consideration of the global relevance of the issue for practitioners in other settings. In Teaching Online: Tools and Techniques, Options and Opportunities, Hockly and Clandfield (2010) imagine four types of situations for the possible use of online teaching, namely a freelance English teacher, the director of studies of a language school, a teacher in a university language department, and teacher for younger learners up to the age of...