Conference | Meet Andy Cowle from Avallain, the Gold Sponsor

We’re delighted to welcome Avallain as gold sponsor of the upcoming English for Healthcare conference and introduce its representative Andy Cowle who will be presenting at the conference.

Switzerland-based digital education pioneers Avallain have been around for over 20 years, working with some of the world’s largest publishing houses, as well as educational institutions and international language training companies. Avallain have expanded their reach rapidly over the last few years as online educational content has become mainstream.

Their Magnet platform in particular offers educators an off the shelf tool for creating and publishing content which works seamlessly on all devices. The authoring tool allows video, audio, visual and text-based inputs, and the activity types include everything you would want, from multiple choice to drag and drop, cloze exercises, labelling, categorising, voice recording, error correction and free writing. The platform includes a range of sophisticated teaching features, enabling an institution to track and analyse student activities and scores, set assignments, integrate local files into courses and leave written and spoken feedback.

Avallain’s authoring and publishing tools are already known to many in the English for Healthcare world through their partnership with SLC whose courses are all published on Magnet.

Andy Cowle is a freelance consultant who has worked in ELT for more than thirty-five years as a teacher, trainer, writer and sales professional with publishers and institutions worldwide. He is a business development consultant for Avallain.

In his talk, Andy will explore what the challenges are when seeking to provide quality online learning in English for the Healthcare sector. These can range from choosing the most suitable authoring and learning platform, to giving tools to teachers to create their own content and assessments (including AI-generated content). From the more commonly known activity types to those at the cutting edge of digital language learning, this session looks at tools from Avallain whose technology has been used for many years by all the ELT publishers and by SLC for their successful course creation and delivery.

Read the full abstract here: https://www.englishforhealthcare.com/abstracts-2024