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White Papers and Presentations

SLC works at the cutting edge of online English for Healthcare and exam preparation course design and delivery. We think hard about what we do. Here are some of our thoughts and research to share with you.

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Medical White Papers

Programmes for refugees, asylum seekers and migrant communities

SLC’s Managing Director, Chris Moore, gave a presentation to the South West Regional ESOL Network on the work SLC are doing with refugee, asylum seeker and migrant communities across the UK in partnership with strategic migration partnerships (SMPs) and refugee support organisations such as RefuAid, the Lincolnshire Refugee Doctor Project, and the NHS Displaced Talent programme.

Designing online materials for today’s learners – 5 key principles

This talk draws on a decade of experience in publishing digital English materials for healthcare students and professionals worldwide.

Learning the Lessons: Analysing the Creation of a Sustainable, Structured Nursing English Programme in Multiple Nursing Colleges across India

This presentation analysed the development of Nurs-Eng, an English language programme for nurses, delivered to Degree and Diploma level students at nursing colleges across India.

How to Create a Successful Video Tutorial

SLC Academic Lead, Jo, is a brilliant video maker. Her videos on OET Preparation have achieved over 3 million views and SLC’s OET channel has over 83,000 subscribers.

AI Video Creation – Not a Complete Solution… Yet

Virginia creates outstanding online Medical English content, used by doctors, nurses, carers and OET students around the world to improve their professional English and communication skills and achieve the scores they need in OET to work in English-speaking countries.

The Seven Principles of Outstanding Online Course Design

SLC’s unique online courses for medical students and professionals are used by educational institutions and individuals around the world.

IELTS Writing – A Comparative Analysis of Different Band Scores

At the beginning of 2016, the NMC introduced a new regulation which required all nurses from outside the UK to achieve a score of 7.0 or above (out of 9.0) in all four areas of the Academic IELTS exam – reading, listening, writing and speaking – in order to obtain a license to practise as nurses in the UK.

The Impact of IELTS 7.0 on the Recruitment of EEA-Trained Nurses

On January 19th 2016, the NMC changed its English language requirements for nurses trained in the EEA. All new registrants now need to score 7.0 in the international IELTS Academic English language test.

Classroom vs Online Learning

This paper examines best practice in both teacher-led tuition and online self-study, looking at their difference and similarities and the challenges faced by course designers and teachers working with the two areas. It then goes on to examine whether blended language courses can be created which enable the advantages of both to be optimised in a meaningful way.

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