Welcome to episode 16 of teachers lift. Over the past year we have all been strugglign to identify best practices for teaching remotely - in this episode our hosts from poly u chat with their colleague, Ryan Hunter, about the lessons that he's been able to carry lessons learned from his online postgraduate studies into his online teaching practices. Now I will pass things over the Jessica and Eric at PolyU

We hope you have enjoyed this episode of the teachers lift. Teachers lift is a growing collaborative project created to help give teachers a space to share professional experiences and practices. This podcast is created by colleagues from the English Language Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, , the Centre for applied English at the University of Hong Kong and the Centre for Language Education at the Hong Kong University of Science and technology. We hope that you can support this effort by letting us know you're listening - just log into teachers [lift.com](http://lift.com) and to find our links on most social media platforms where you can like and subscribe. If you subscribe to this podcast using the app of your choice, you will be notified when we post new episodes.

This episode was recorded on May 22, 2020

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