In 2008, in the wake of a British government initiative, the British Council and its partners announced that a new project titled 'English Online' would feature a website to help provide the latest in innovation and resources for teachers and students of the English language.

BrightLemon was asked by the British Council to develop a dynamic and innovative website to host those resources. To supplement these teaching resources the site also hosts a social network to connect students to teachers.

These social features rapidly grew the community to 130,000 users, going well beyond the expectations of the client and boosted the government’s initiative target for the uptake of the English language around the world - hailing the project itself as a great success.

The online community has become one of the largest community learning portals within education and the success of the project has received continued national press coverage.
 

Key Features

Listen and Watch There is a wide option of both audio and video content throughout the site, the Listen and Watch section offers further episodes, tutorials and documentaries. Videos are available to embed throughout the web and audio tutorials are commonly used alongside written exercises

Discussion boards The discussion board is a forum of topics which members can exchange information on English language techniques, exam advice and general user discussions.  Being updated daily with up-to-date news discussion, it encourages debate in the English language and creates interest groups between users.