Through this course you will start to critically examine your own ideas about education, teaching and learning. The critique will be developed through engagement with theories and ideas developed through educational research. You will be encouraged to use these ideas to challenge or support your own ideas about education. Each week we will focus on one key question, using … [Read more...] about What future for education?
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Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Tools
In this course you will learn about a wide variety of Web 2.0 tools to use in your teaching and learning. Web 2.0 tools provide innovative ways to communicate, present content, and collaborate with others in creative ways. Web 2.0 tools are easy to learn, use, and implement, and many are free. This course will not only introduce you to popular Web 2.0 tools like Edmodo, … [Read more...] about Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Tools
Brilliant, Passionate You
This course is an interdisciplinary look at how we can make each day the best day of our lives by examining the question, “How can you be your most brilliant, passionate self?†You will be joined on this journey by our animated host, Lewis! You will envision your “perfect day†and then slowly deconstruct the elements of that day to better understand key elements such as … [Read more...] about Brilliant, Passionate You
Teaching Children with Visual Impairment: Creating Empowering Classrooms
In the education of children with visual impairment, there is at present a global movement away from segregated special schooling, and towards inclusive neighbourhood schools. Inclusion provides an opportunity for everyone, teachers as well as learners, to become more acquainted about life with visual impairment and to overcome some of the barriers of difference which have … [Read more...] about Teaching Children with Visual Impairment: Creating Empowering Classrooms
Assessment for Learning
For several decades now, assessment has become an increasingly pressing educational priority. Teacher and school accountability systems have come to be based on analysis of large-scale, standardized summative assessments. As a consequence, assessment now dominates most conversations about reform, particularly as a measure of teacher and school accountability for learner … [Read more...] about Assessment for Learning
