VWBPE 2021 Keynote Speaker Heike Philp
SL: Gwen Gwasi
Heike Philp is CEO of let’s talk online sprl, based in Brussels, Belgium, immersive education specialist. With over 20 years in language education and with Germany’s first live online language school, Philp co-initiated four European funded projects and has been working with 49 European partners including 22 universities to develop accredited and certified teacher training courses for language teaching and learning in immersive environments. These EU Projects are:
LANCELOT (LANguage learning with CErtified Live Online Teachers, 2005-2007) and AVALON (Access to Virtual and Action Learning live Online, 2009-2011) about language teaching and learning in a virtual classroom or virtual world,
CAMELOT (CreAting Machinima Empowers Live Online language Teaching and learning, since 2013) about machinima (videos of 3D worlds) of language learning conversations and
GUINEVERE (Games Used IN Engaging Virtual Environments for Real-time language Education, start 12/2017), about games in virtual worlds.
Philp runs her own web conferences: Virtual Round Table Web Conference on Language Learning Technologies, DaFWEBKON for teachers of German and SLanguages Annual Symposium. She co-owns EduNation islands in Second Life and in OpenSim.
Youtube Video (Unedited Version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8RGY7SFAlA
