COURSE FEEDBACK The title of this course is "Teaching English Online Course", which led me to believe it was a course on "how" to teach English online, not "about" teaching online (in general). If I were to structure a course in the manner that this one is, very much out of date with far better resources available online for free, then I wouldn't be designing courses for very long. In this assignment, I have been asked to design tasks; however, there have been no model design tasks provided, and very little specifically mentioning English language teaching at all. This is (content) invalid assessment, as the assignment tests what has not been taught. It smacks as a course which has been rapidly adapted from a general online teaching course which has been running for several years. Review Assignment 1 contains a task related to teaching English online, but the questions leading up to this assignment do not specifically mention teaching English at all. This course is misnamed, and the course title is (deliberately?) misleading, perhaps to attract long-time teachers such as myself who are interested in moving from traditional face-to-face teaching into free-lance online English language teaching. The course is (at least) 4 years out of date, far better guides to teaching EAL online are available for free via Youtube and communities of online EAL teachers. These guides provide practical advice about which software is freely available (Skype, Google Hangouts, Zoom, Moodle, Google Drive, WordPress, Weebly, and so on), how to do vital things (edit videos, set up an ELT Online web-page, how to set up a blog, how much to charge for classes, how to structure a lesson, how to set up a payment mechanism, how to set up a calendar booking system, how to market yourself, and so on) and freely distribute useful information and advice. This is what I was expecting your course to distill for me so that I would have the tools and knowledge to venture into my own online teaching venture. Instead, I had to complete this useless course, with no refunds, (a competitor who provides much more for free, and who also operates a commercial program, provides refunds if participants are unhappy with the course. It's more expensive, yes, but also provides ongoing support to get an online English language teaching business up and running, many tutorial videos, and so on. I should have paid the additional money to do a useful course, rather than your mish-mash.) and nothing useful learnt. An example: the Synchronous Chat unit: Chat is Face-to-Face classes: lots of examples of the use of chat, probably lifted from other courses, with no connection whatever to online English teaching. Include a synopsis of the course, so that prospective participants have the opportunity to appraise the course before having to make payment. Payment is made without realising that a course entitled "Teaching English Online", which is predominantly done by free-lance online English teachers, is an outmoded, out-of-date course, with no redress for a refund once the participant discovers how useless it is! So many of the questions are of the "guess which word the assessor is thinking of" type of question - the cloze exercises are laughingly poor. Hard to believe that any organisation would get away with designing and releasing commercially such a thoroughly unprofessional course. Matching activities - so many can be completed just by finding the same key word in the question and in the answer. What does this test?? With the "boxes" which must be moved from the bottom of the screen to a sentence above, the screen cannot be scrolled up to allow placement of the box in the correct sentence - have to place the box in a wrong place first, scroll down, then move the box up. Very poor design. I agree that the course does have information on available tools, mostly out of date - information and practical advice are different concepts - even take the most widely-used tool, Skype - where does the course even mention the practical aspects of using this, how to use the screen-sharing facility, how to use the whiteboard? - the course is "about" teaching English online.) Teacher collates these ideas into a series of assessment items (multiple-choice, matching, cloze, ordering, Betty Russelling, etc - again, there is no practical guidance given in the course regarding which platforms might enable a teacher to do this, course participants are just informed that it can be done.