Heike Philp

CEO of let's talk online sprl, Brussels

Belgium/ Germany
+49-175-858 2297
heikephilp@gmail.com

Summary

Heike Philp is CEO of let’s talk online sprl (founded 2003) in Brussels, Belgium with expertise in immersive language education. With over 25 years in education and with Germany’s first live online language school, Philp co-initiated four European funded projects and worked with 47 European partners including 23 universities to develop accredited and certified teacher training courses. These EU Projects are LANCELOT, AVALON, CAMELOT and GUINEVERE. Philp runs her own annual webconferences: the Virtual Round Table conference for English teachers on how to use technology in class and DaFWEBKON for teachers of German. She co-owns EduNation islands in Second Life and runs workshops online and offline. She conducts and moderates webinars and workshops and is responsible for the technical support as well as facilitation and moderation. Her clients include ministries of education, universities, research organisations, teacher associations, language educators globally, language schools and more. She is committee member of the Digital Committee at IATEFL (Intl. Assc. for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) and online events organizer for Learning Technologies Special Interest Group of IATEFL.

Experience

Managing Director (CEO) , visionary and entrepreneur in the area new media for language education
Co-initiator of EU funded LANCELOT project www.lancelot.at (2005-2007)
Initiator of EU funded AVALON project www.avalonlearning.eu (2009-2011)
Initiator of EU funded CAMELOT project www.camelotproject.eu (2013-2015)
Initiator of EU funded GUINEVERE project www.guinevereproject.eu (2017-2019)
Immersive education integration specialist
Evaluation of strategies and implementation of simulated reality (VR/AR/MR) in virtual environments
Development of training courses for language educators
Insider know-how of language training and communication in real-time via internet in 2D and 3D learning environments
Extensive leadership experience and experience in intercultural competence in virtual team management

Work History

Founder and CEO

Jan 2003Present

let's talk online

Founder and CEO of let’s talk online, www.letstalkonline.com

Startup as Germany's first live online language school in 2003

Co-initiation of EU funded LANCELOT, AVALON, CAMELOT and GUINEVERE projects (2005+)

Core competence in teacher training in virtual classroom and virtual worlds environments for real-time language education

Technology support for live online events, webinars and web conferences

Summary

Start up of a live online language school
School management (25 teachers and hundreds of students worldwide)

Development of teaching concept and teaching material for language teaching in virtual classrooms, video conferencing and webinars
Technical support for live online events

EU funded LANCELOT (LANguage learning with CErtified Live Online Teachers), 2005-2007, development of a teacher training program to learn how to use virtual classroom/ video conferencing technology for language teaching and learning at a distance in realtime
EU funded AVALON (Access to Virtual and Action Learning live ONline) 2009-2011, development of a teacher training program to learn how to use virtual worlds for language teaching and learning at a distance in realtime
EU funded CAMELOT (CreAting Machinima Empowers Live Online language Teaching and learning) 2013-2015, development of a teacher training program to learn how to use virtual worlds for filming of machinima (3d animated videos) as learning material
EU funded GUINEVERE (Games Used IN Engaging Virtual Environments for Real-time language Education) 2017-2019, development of a teacher training program to learn how to use games in virtual worlds such as Minecraft, OpenSim or Second Life.

Founder and organizers of several web conferences, Virtual Round Table (language learning technologies) DaFWEBKON (teachers of German), SLanguages Annual Symposium, CEFR WebConference, tech support/ simulcasts for the British Council's first web conference in Turkey (Story Sharing Conference), CUP, IH and others.
Owner of EduNation islands in Second Life, provider of Adobe Connect licenses

Founder and Managing Director

Apr 2006Apr 2011

LANCELOT School GmbH

Founder and Managing Director of LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbH liqu., www.lancelotschool.com (5 years)

Accredited LANCELOT training, recruitment and technology center for language educators in virtual classroom technology, 3 shareholders, Philp owned 63%, an investor 26% and the other co-initiator of the LANCELOT project 10%

Summary

Set-up of LANCELOT School GmbH in Germany to commercialize LANCELOT project results
Set-up of an online training center for the delivery of the certified LANCELOT course (Moodle, live trainings in virtual classroom technology, training LANCELOT trainers)
Set-up of a language teacher community/ portal for live online language education (teacher portal, NING communities, virtual headquarters in Second Life,
Set-up of technical full service provider for language educators (pre-selecting virtual classroom solutions, 1st, 2nd and 3rd level support for both teachers and learners,
School management, 2 employees, sales, finances
Sales & Marketing (online event management, telesales campaigns)
Co-initiation of the 2nd EU funded project proposal AVALON, AVALON = Access to Virtual and Action Learning Live ONLine, to develop a teacher training course on how to teach a language in virtual worlds (Life Long Learning Program, EACEA)
LANCELOT School GmbH collaborated in the writing of the AVALON project proposal and in undertaking partner acquisition
Project partnership in AVALON for the period of 2 years, from Jan 2010 to Dec 2011

IT Support

Aug 2000Jun 2001

Mobile Family Services GmbH

Mobile Family Services GmbH, daughter company of Siemens AG Start up of the production of GPRS supported/ call center operated mobile

Summary

Assistant to an external IT company in the setup of the IT department and single-handedly running of the IT department during the final phase of the 9-months lasting Siemens start-up
Implementation of a Content Management Systems (Internet/Intranet/Extranet)
Application training course for introduction of a CMS
System administration of Windows 2000 Server Umgebung
1st Level IT Support von 30 clients
Administration der Telekommunikationsanlage HICOM

Software-Linguist-WebDesign

Jan 1992Jun 2000

Freelance work in England/ Germany/ Japan

Freelance work in England/ Germany/ Japan

Software – Linguist – WebDesign

Tasks

Freelance teacher of German in various companies in England (4 years)
Conducting German exams with 20 employees of BASF Coatings and Inks, Horsham, England
German teacher in Japan, Shinjuku, Tokyo (1986)
Software trainer in various software training institutes in Munich training MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook) in Munich Softwareschulen in München mit MS Office/ Dreamweaver Kursen in deutsch und englisch
Website creation
Translations of technical user manuals German-English
Sales and marketing of financial products

Telesales

Education

Teaching Certificate

CELT Athens

http://www.celt.edu.gr/delta.htm

A-Levels

Wilhelmi Gymnasium

Bachelor in Social Science

Sep 1982Jun 1986

FH Frankfurt

Activities

Conference Presentations

Heike Philp is a frequent guest speaker and runs workshops at various conferences related to education and language learning

IATEFL, iDT, fadaf,
Virtual World Best Practise in Education, VWMOOC, OSCC conf,
EUROCALL
Online Educa
IATEFL
TESOL France
ICT4ALL

Organizer of the following Webconferences

Virtual Round Table Web Conference www.virtual-round-table.com (since 2009)

DaFWEBKON www.dafwebkon.com (since 2012)

vLanguages/ SLanguages Annual Symposium www.slanguages.org (since 2010)

Skills

Communication in real-time via internet

Expert know-how in the field of immersive language education in virtual classrooms and virtual worlds, organizer of online conferences and virtual fairs, technical support and recording of webinars and simulcasts/ livestream at conferences.

Languages

German Native speaker

English Bilingual

Japanese Fluent in conversation, some reading

Italian Fluent in conversation, reading/ writing good

French Good conversational skills, reading/ writing ok

Technical know-how

Multimedia: Video editing, 360 photo editing, livestreaming, expert user and provider of web conferencing system (Adobe Connect),

Social Media: Strong presence on Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube channel letstalkonlinedotcom and lancelotschool,

Web publishing: Wordpress, NING communities,

Virtual Worlds: expert know-how and building/ scripting skills in Second Life, OpenSim and Minecraft

VR: Owner of Oculus Rift, experience in social VR worlds such as High Fidelity, Sansar, Facebook Spaces, VR Chat etc.

Programming languages: Web design (HTML, JAVA, ASP, java script), CSS, SSI, CGI, Perl, XML, VBA, VB, Flash, mySQL, Linden scripting language

Solutions/ methods: Various eLearning applications, web shops, content management systems, portal and community development, virtual environments, synchronous communication, asynchronous communication, web-based solutions for teaching and learning, self-study tools and informal learning, connectivism

Virtual teams and community builder

Leadership experience (project and line) especially with virtual teams, entrepreneurial thinking, goal oriented, strong community building capabilities, team oriented and collaborative, creative, confident demeanor, strong personal learning network

New Media

Profound know-how in new media, online teaching methodology, web design, social media, software training, video production, learning management systems, Windows O/S, web-based tools for education

Language educator and software trainer

30+ years of experience in the field of languages and the field of education/ training : 9 years as founder and managing director of let’s talk online, 5 years as managing director of LANCELOT School GmbH, 4 years at Siemens, 4 years as German teacher in Japan and England, 4 years working with German and Japanese companies abroad in linguistic capabilities, several years in IT support and software training