LiTE Academy Webinars Started!
by Project Team
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October 10, 2025
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We kicked off the LiTE Academy Professional Development Webinar Series and we are happy to share that the first two sessions are now behind us and what a start it has been! Educators from across Europe (and a few from beyond) joined us live, and the conversations that unfolded were exactly the kind of exchange we had hoped for when we first imagined this series.
If you missed them live, the good news is that both webinars are now available on our YouTube channel and our website. Read on for a quick recap of what each session covered, and find the recordings linked below.
Webinar 1 - Introducing the LiTE Academy Model
28 April 2026 | Osman Solmaz (Dicle University) & Cristina A. Huertas-Abril (Universidad de Córdoba)
Our opening session set the stage for the whole series. Osman and Cristina walked participants through the heart of the LiTE Academy project: who we are, the eight partner universities behind it, and the thinking that led us to centre our work on Digital, Inclusive, and Multilingual (DIMs) pedagogies for language teacher education.
We talked about the structure of the three modules, the learners we hope to reach, and how the Academy fits into the wider landscape of language teacher professional development in Europe. The Q&A that followed was lively, participants from several different countries asked about everything from accreditation to how they might use the materials with their own student teachers. It was a great reminder that there's real appetite for this kind of cross-border, practice-oriented teacher learning.
Watch Webinar 1 below:
Webinar 2 - Teaching Languages in the Digital Age
11 May 2026 | Francisco Javier Palacios-Hidalgo (Universidad de Córdoba) & Tuncer Can (İstanbul University – Cerrahpaşa)
In our second session, we dove into the Digital Module itself. Fran and Tuncer guided participants through the module's five units; the ideas behind them, the kinds of activities and resources teachers will find inside, and the pedagogical principles that hold it all together.
What made this session especially valuable was the dialogue with participants. We asked educators what they expect from a "digital pedagogies" module, what tools they're already using in their classrooms, and where they feel they need the most support. The answers were eye-opening: many participants spoke about the gap between what AI-supported tools promise and what actually works day-to-day in language classrooms, and several shared concrete examples from their own teaching. That kind of feedback is gold for us and it's already shaping how we'll refine and present the materials going forward.
Watch Webinar 2 below:
What's Next
The series continues through late June, with sessions on inclusive classrooms, multilingual pedagogies, language assessment, task design, and a doctoral colloquium. If any of those topics speak to you, we'd love to have you join us.
🔗 Register for upcoming webinars: https://eventos.uco.es/152347/detail/international-seminar-digital-inclusive-and-multilingual-pedagogies-in-language-education.html
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has joined us so far: your questions, your stories, and your generous engagement are what make this series worth doing. See you at the next one!
LiTE Academy Webinars Started!
by Project Team
•
October 10, 2025
•
We kicked off the LiTE Academy Professional Development Webinar Series and we are happy to share that the first two sessions are now behind us and what a start it has been! Educators from across Europe (and a few from beyond) joined us live, and the conversations that unfolded were exactly the kind of exchange we had hoped for when we first imagined this series.
If you missed them live, the good news is that both webinars are now available on our YouTube channel and our website. Read on for a quick recap of what each session covered, and find the recordings linked below.
Webinar 1 - Introducing the LiTE Academy Model
28 April 2026 | Osman Solmaz (Dicle University) & Cristina A. Huertas-Abril (Universidad de Córdoba)
Our opening session set the stage for the whole series. Osman and Cristina walked participants through the heart of the LiTE Academy project: who we are, the eight partner universities behind it, and the thinking that led us to centre our work on Digital, Inclusive, and Multilingual (DIMs) pedagogies for language teacher education.
We talked about the structure of the three modules, the learners we hope to reach, and how the Academy fits into the wider landscape of language teacher professional development in Europe. The Q&A that followed was lively, participants from several different countries asked about everything from accreditation to how they might use the materials with their own student teachers. It was a great reminder that there's real appetite for this kind of cross-border, practice-oriented teacher learning.
Watch Webinar 1 below:
Webinar 2 - Teaching Languages in the Digital Age
11 May 2026 | Francisco Javier Palacios-Hidalgo (Universidad de Córdoba) & Tuncer Can (İstanbul University – Cerrahpaşa)
In our second session, we dove into the Digital Module itself. Fran and Tuncer guided participants through the module's five units; the ideas behind them, the kinds of activities and resources teachers will find inside, and the pedagogical principles that hold it all together.
What made this session especially valuable was the dialogue with participants. We asked educators what they expect from a "digital pedagogies" module, what tools they're already using in their classrooms, and where they feel they need the most support. The answers were eye-opening: many participants spoke about the gap between what AI-supported tools promise and what actually works day-to-day in language classrooms, and several shared concrete examples from their own teaching. That kind of feedback is gold for us and it's already shaping how we'll refine and present the materials going forward.
Watch Webinar 2 below:
What's Next
The series continues through late June, with sessions on inclusive classrooms, multilingual pedagogies, language assessment, task design, and a doctoral colloquium. If any of those topics speak to you, we'd love to have you join us.
🔗 Register for upcoming webinars: https://eventos.uco.es/152347/detail/international-seminar-digital-inclusive-and-multilingual-pedagogies-in-language-education.html
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has joined us so far: your questions, your stories, and your generous engagement are what make this series worth doing. See you at the next one!
LiTE Academy Webinars Started!
by Project Team
•
October 10, 2025
•
We kicked off the LiTE Academy Professional Development Webinar Series and we are happy to share that the first two sessions are now behind us and what a start it has been! Educators from across Europe (and a few from beyond) joined us live, and the conversations that unfolded were exactly the kind of exchange we had hoped for when we first imagined this series.
If you missed them live, the good news is that both webinars are now available on our YouTube channel and our website. Read on for a quick recap of what each session covered, and find the recordings linked below.
Webinar 1 - Introducing the LiTE Academy Model
28 April 2026 | Osman Solmaz (Dicle University) & Cristina A. Huertas-Abril (Universidad de Córdoba)
Our opening session set the stage for the whole series. Osman and Cristina walked participants through the heart of the LiTE Academy project: who we are, the eight partner universities behind it, and the thinking that led us to centre our work on Digital, Inclusive, and Multilingual (DIMs) pedagogies for language teacher education.
We talked about the structure of the three modules, the learners we hope to reach, and how the Academy fits into the wider landscape of language teacher professional development in Europe. The Q&A that followed was lively, participants from several different countries asked about everything from accreditation to how they might use the materials with their own student teachers. It was a great reminder that there's real appetite for this kind of cross-border, practice-oriented teacher learning.
Watch Webinar 1 below:
Webinar 2 - Teaching Languages in the Digital Age
11 May 2026 | Francisco Javier Palacios-Hidalgo (Universidad de Córdoba) & Tuncer Can (İstanbul University – Cerrahpaşa)
In our second session, we dove into the Digital Module itself. Fran and Tuncer guided participants through the module's five units; the ideas behind them, the kinds of activities and resources teachers will find inside, and the pedagogical principles that hold it all together.
What made this session especially valuable was the dialogue with participants. We asked educators what they expect from a "digital pedagogies" module, what tools they're already using in their classrooms, and where they feel they need the most support. The answers were eye-opening: many participants spoke about the gap between what AI-supported tools promise and what actually works day-to-day in language classrooms, and several shared concrete examples from their own teaching. That kind of feedback is gold for us and it's already shaping how we'll refine and present the materials going forward.
Watch Webinar 2 below:
What's Next
The series continues through late June, with sessions on inclusive classrooms, multilingual pedagogies, language assessment, task design, and a doctoral colloquium. If any of those topics speak to you, we'd love to have you join us.
🔗 Register for upcoming webinars: https://eventos.uco.es/152347/detail/international-seminar-digital-inclusive-and-multilingual-pedagogies-in-language-education.html
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has joined us so far: your questions, your stories, and your generous engagement are what make this series worth doing. See you at the next one!
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