Continuing with the theme from Sophie's last post for BookMachine on interesting English Language Teaching (ELT) Publishing start-ups, she interviewed Karen Spiller, freelance ELT project manager about her most recent venture with fellow ELT professionals Sue Kay (ELT author) and Karen White (freelance ELT project manager). What is ELT Teacher 2 Writer and who is [...]
The changing nature of publishing is forcing Publishing houses, writers, authors – content creators – to think differently, experiment and look at working with new people in new ways. Award winning ELT authors Lindsay Clandfield and Luke Meddings are doing just this. They have set up The Round, which aims to bring together creative people [...]
Back in February one of our Design Managers, Amy, went along to Cengage and National Geographic's latest ELT course launch, Life at the Natural history Museum. eMC Design was thrilled to be involved in the design of the Student Books for this prestigious new course and we're already looking forward to more of the components [...]
Welcome to the world of Inanimate Alice, a truly digital novel that has taken the educational world by storm. The idea for Alice first came about in 2003 and the team (Ian Harper, Chris Joseph and award winning author Kate Pullinger) published the first episode in 2005. The story is told by Alice through 10 [...]
Amy gives us a sneaky peak of one the latest projects to go through the studio. Check back soon for the low down on how the launch party went at the Natural History Museum. Like so many people I look back at my school days with some regret. I wasn’t a bad student at all, [...]
Design considerations for Publishing to a Global Market In a recent FutureBook blog post, which highlighted the ever changing and further reaching audience of the blog, we offered to write an article from our perspective of Publishing for a Global Market. As a design studio that works with Educational Publishers, we have gained an understanding [...]
Today we learned that Pearson has acquired Global Education and Technology Group, a leading provider of test preparation services for students in China who are learning English. It seems like a good move on Pearson's part who are continually strengthening their award winning English Language teaching resources. Making a move to China, the fastest growing [...]
This week HRH The Duke of Edinburgh announced the winners of the 2011 English-Speaking Union English Language Book Awards. And eMC Design is delighted to have been involved with the production of the winning course. Written by Antonia Clare, Frances Eales, Steve Oakes, JJ Wilson and published by Pearson Longman, Speakout is a new general [...]
Tonight is the first Book Machine live Twitter discussion (21st Sept 18.30 GMT - follow #BMhour) and we are going to be asking, 'What effect will digital publishing have on access to content in developing countries?' This is a subject that I have become really interested in since coming to work at eMC Design. Last [...]
Oxford University Press – English Language Teaching Global Blog @OUPELTGlobal. Fantastic article from OUP about how publishers recognise the need to offer a wide variety of ways for learners to engage with educational material and content. It is no longer about supplying just textbooks and great teaching resources. It's now about understanding that learners themselves, [...]