The shift to online instruction in March 2020 was sudden and posed a number of problems to the ESP course instructors in terms of technology, pedagogy and assessment of students' performance. Although computer assistance has long been used in teaching English for Specific Purposes at the University of Bucharest, the computer was not the medium of instruction, nor was the course content digitalised. As for the exams, they were either pen-and-paper based or oral examinations, therefore the computer was hardly ever used. This article is an investigation into the solutions that have been adopted during the pandemic, which may lay the foundations for successful standards for a modern blended ESP course, where computer-mediated activities are given pride of place. It has been demonstrated that various platforms can be successfully employed to replace in-person teaching temporarily, yet some of the affordances of technology can and must be preserved once we have returned to school. The in-person ESP class will for sure no longer resemble the pre-pandemic course and the challenges of the pandemic will eventually be turned into opportunities. From this point of view, we can safely say that it will be an improved version of the traditional course, updated to fit the type of learners of the second decade of the 21st millennium - a learner who is permanently connected to his mobile device which is used for a variety of tasks, learning included.

ESP; Google Classroom; Microsoft Teams; Zoom; Online Teaching Methodology.