{"id":2164,"date":"2017-05-13T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T08:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/symposium2017.ca-institute.com\/?page_id=2164"},"modified":"2019-05-24T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:19:10","slug":"speakers-erik-dostal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/index.php\/speakers-erik-dostal\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers &#8211; Erik L. Dostal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-circle alignnone wp-image-3848 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erik-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erik-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erik-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erik-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erik-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erik-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erik-211x211.jpg 211w, https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erik-634x634.jpg 634w, https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/erik.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Erik L. Dostal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Erik L. Dostal is the founding director of CA Institute and the convener ILSB. He is the author of the recently published:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/eshop.ca-institute.com\/en\/home\/358-the-language-teacher-s-golden-companion-9788090536876.html\"><em>The Language Teacher&#8217;s Golden Companion<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;He established a fully&nbsp;operating university by opening offsite campus for IDRAC International Business&nbsp;School in 2014 that has bachelor and master degree programs all in English&nbsp;with ECTS credits. CA Institute also has post-grad programs with various MBA titles, Teacher Certification, Science, Medicine, Research,&nbsp;Cannabis Business, Horticulture, Medical marijuana\/CBD, Marketing, Economics, Law, and Municipality Management.<\/p>\n<p>He teamed up with Norwich Institute of Language Education&nbsp;(NILE) to provide an array of teacher training modules for primary and secondary&nbsp;schools in the Czech Republic as well as Delta. Erik has also opened a language assessment center for Euroexam and ETS Global&nbsp;and plays a supporting role in the development and expansion of EAQUALS.&nbsp;He even finds time to operate his consultancy company ELD Consultancy &amp;&nbsp;CPD and Releaf Social Enterprise. He provides consultancy to the board of the&nbsp;Czech Ministry of Education.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Erik L. Dostal Erik L. Dostal is the founding director of CA Institute and the convener ILSB. He is the author of the recently published:&nbsp;The Language Teacher&#8217;s Golden Companion.&nbsp;He <a href='https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/index.php\/speakers-erik-dostal\/' title='read more!'>&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3892,"href":"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2164\/revisions\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/symposium.ca-institute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}