Mike Mayor

Pearson

Mike Mayor is Director, English Learning Research & Design at Pearson. In this role, Mike heads up the Global Scale of English team which carries out research into creating audience-specific learning objectives and works with Content teams to ensure that these learning objectives underpin all new products and services. On leaving university, Mike worked as a teacher of English in France before entering the world of publishing as a lexicographer. Mike joined Pearson in 2003 and headed up the Longman dictionaries list until his move to the Global Scale of English in 2013. Mike has a BA (Hons) in French Language and Literature, an MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics from Cambridge University and a Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.


Sessions

How Do You Know Learning Is Taking Place?

College & University Education
Sat, Nov 21, 17:55-18:55 JST

One of the challenges facing teachers who have had to move their teaching online is how to ensure that learning is still taking place. Traditional ways of assessing students’ progress are no longer applicable – so how do we move assessment online too? This presentation looks at two new online tests that can be used to place students at the correct level, monitor their progress across all four skills and be administered remotely.