To Flip Or Not To Flip – Discover the flipped classroom methodology

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What is flipped learning? According to the Flipped Learning Network, it is a “pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter.”

This MOOC is part of the MOOCs for Teachers series, which is devoted to pedagogical innovation and is aimed at giving the chance to teachers and people involved in instructional design to develop skills in the didactical area.

During the course there will be the chance to meet the other participants and one or more teachers online for a synchronous session, which will be announced by email, according to the course objectives. You can access the course absolutely free of charge and completely online. The course materials will still be available to all registered users, even after the closing of the edition. Further editions of this course will be activated each academic year. The forum of this MOOC is freely accessible and participation is not guided; you can use it to compare yourself with other participants, or to discuss course contents with them.

The course entails questions, in the form of self-assessment quizzes or as hints for reflection, as well as discussion activities in the Forum and design activities in WEEK 4. You are not required to answer these questions or participate to activities to complete the course, but we strongly believe they offer you a concrete opportunity to improve your knowledge! Instead, the quiz you will find at the end of the core WEEKs (except WEEK 0 and the final section on the pedagogical approach) will be evaluated. You can retry the quiz up to a maximum of 3 times. Remember: the system will record the result of your final attempt, not the best of your attempts! The course is properly completed if the participant correctly answers to at least 60% of the questions, totally. The course’s total score will be calculated by averaging the scores of the quizzes for each individual week. Once you have successfully passed the course, you can request the Certificate of Accomplishment without waiting for the end of the edition.

Engaging Students in Active Learning

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This MOOC, “Engaging Students in Active Learning”, is part of the “MOOCs for Teachers” series. It is addressed mainly to teachers who want to improve their effective support to students. It is also addressed to the ones who already engage students in their lessons, but still want to re-think about it and enhance even further the results of this collaboration. Any other participant interested in understanding the dynamics of learning is welcome to bring his/her distinct perspective.

This MOOC is part of the MOOCs for Teachers series, which is devoted to pedagogical innovation and is aimed at giving the chance to teachers and people involved in instructional design to develop skills in the didactical area.

The collaboration between all the subjects involved (teachers, students and tutors); the open-minded approach to embrace the perspective of each participant.

The courage to continuously try something new; and the strong attitude to make students succeed are some of the key factors for an effective learning experience. In this MOOC you’ll have the chance to listen about these factors directly from the voice of teachers who are familiar with active learning in very different contexts. You will have the chance to listen some tips to try active learning in your course, and go through a set of tools we will provide you and some useful resources shared by other institutions.

You are invited to adapt them to your learning goals and try them in your classes.

Using Open Educational Resources in Teaching

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What are Open Educational Resources and why they could be a great support for teachers at every level? According to UNESCO, they are “any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.” In this MOOC you will find:

  • the basics about Open Educational Resources
  • different perspectives about key issues
  • some tips to try OERs in your course, a set of tools we will provide you, some useful resources shared by other institutions and OERs workforce.

Open Educational Resources are the result of a different approach to education: the focus is on sharing, improving and reusing educational materials created by people (not only super-experts) who are willing to let knowledge spread and be used by anyone.

This MOOC is part of the MOOCs for Teachers series, which is devoted to pedagogical innovation and is aimed at giving the chance to teachers and people involved in instructional design to develop skills in the didactical area. The MOOCs for Teachers series is the result of a collaborative design between METID, the service of Politecnico di Milano devoted to e-learning and e-collaboration, and UNIT (Université Numérique Ingénierie et Technologie).

PREREQUISITES There are no prerequisites to take this course, even if previous experience in didactics and teaching will be helpful. The course is mainly addressed at professors and teachers, at all levels, who are willing to think about some innovation in their pedagogical approach.

Designing Learning Innovation

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Designing Learning Innovation aims to put the designing culture at the service of learning innovation, supporting those who do not have a specific pedagogical background and those who wish to learn the basic tools of a good teaching design then to continue exploring the frontiers of innovation.

A set of logical and methodological tools to innovate teaching, finding the most suitable approaches with one’s own vision of the teaching-learning experience.

In this course learners will learn to:

  • Use basic theoretical-methodological tools (such as Constructive Alignment and the Learning Innovation Network) to enhance teaching coherence between learning objectives, assessment methods and learning experiences
  • apply pedagogical frameworks of the active learning methodology to the design either an individual teaching module or an entire teaching path
  • evaluate advantages and disadvantages, in the field of your own teachings, of traditional evaluation approaches compared to the new assessment strategies, in particular those oriented to the formative evaluation
  • apply simple strategies for managing the active class in small, medium and large classrooms
  • designing and producing quality teaching materials also enhancing the availability of “Open Educational Resources”.

Progettare l’Innovazione Didattica

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Il MOOC mira a mettere la cultura del design al servizio dell’innovazione nell’apprendimento, supportando coloro che non hanno un background pedagogico specifico e coloro che desiderano apprendere gli strumenti di base di una buona progettazione didattica per continuare ad esplorare le frontiere dell’innovazione.

Un insieme di strumenti logici e metodologici per innovare la didattica, trovando gli approcci più adatti alla propria visione dell’esperienza di insegnamento-apprendimento.

Attraverso questo corso l’utente imparerà a:

  • utilizzare strumenti teorico-metodologici di base (quali il Constructive Alignment e la Rete dell’Apprendimento) per potenziare la coerenza didattica tra obiettivi di apprendimento, metodi di valutazione ed esperienza di apprendimento nei propri insegnamenti. Applicare alcuni modelli pedagogici del filone “active learning” alla progettazione di singoli moduli didattici o a un intero insegnamento.
  • Valutare vantaggi e svantaggi, nell’ambito dei propri insegnamenti, dei tradizionali approcci valutativi rispetto alle nuove strategie per la valutazione, in particolare quelle orientate alla valutazione formativa; applicare semplici strategie per la gestione della classe attiva in aule di piccole, medie e grandi dimensioni;
  • progettare e realizzare materiali didattici di qualità anche valorizzando la disponibilità di “Open Educational Resources”.

CPD Webinar: Developing a Sense of Belonging: Building Communities in Online Teaching

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This session will cover key pedagogical and technical approaches to building a sense of belonging and fostering communities in online classrooms. Over the course of 2020 many organisations have had to switch rapidly to online teaching. This shift has provided many opportunities for increasing inclusive and flexible practices which benefit retention and engagement; however, many are also reporting an increase in feeling isolated and disconnected from their peers. Using the background of the ‘community of enquiry’ framework from Garrison, this session focuses on how to build on four key areas: Safe spaces Creating a sense of belonging requires a space to belong to! This part of the session will focus on discussions around the types of online ‘spaces’ we could use to encourage collaboration and community with our learners. Sense of self Creating inclusive learning has never been more important. Research shows that having a sense of ‘self and identity’ in relation to your peers can help to create a sense of belonging and understanding when working online. This section will focus on techniques we can use in online teaching to help students develop their emotional understanding. Language and culture This section will focus on the way in which we use language to convey a sense of culture online. Building on given examples, participants will work together and share ideas. Building community habits This section will involve discussion and practical tasks to share best practice in building habits of community and belonging when teaching online.

CPD Webinar: Creating and embedding personas into a digital curriculum to improve diversity and inclusion

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The move to digital gives course designers and teachers an opportunity to look at diversity and inclusion through a less restrictive lens and make course content representative of a cohort. Changing the demographic of a department or teaching team takes time and is outside the scope of most individuals but changing and adapting the demographics of the content is relatively simple and could have a huge impact on student feelings of inclusion. In the Attributes and Aspirations course at Imperial College London we have tried to do this by using personas, or what we have named the ‘AA Avatars’. These give our content faces and histories that we hope add a visible element of diversity to our online course. This webinar will look at how our AA Avatars were created, discuss the different elements of diversity that could/should form part of a potential persona/avatar, and move into a discussion allowing participants to explore this further in their own contexts. We will then look at how our AA Avatars have been developed further and embedded as an integral part of our course. Once again, moving into discussions of how this can be achieved in the contexts of participants. We will share templates and prompt questions that have helped us, and that can be used and adapted in other fields.

8. bpb:forum digital: SPEZIAL – Cybersicherheit

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Dreiteilige Reihe von Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb und Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) anlässlich des European Cyber Security Months 1. Folge am 7. Oktober 2020 – 11 Uhr Mit Nadine Nagel und Sven Herpig Die Corona-Krise hat die Digitalisierung beschleunigt und besonders verdeutlicht, wie hilfreich digitale Technik ist. Doch die Entwicklungen bringen nicht nur Chancen wie Informations- und Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten mit sich, sondern werfen auch viele Fragen auf. In der ersten Folge unserer dreiteiligen Reihe “Wahrheit und Relevanz im digitalen Raum” am 7. Oktober 2020 sprechen Nadine Nagel, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, und Sven Herpig, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, darüber, wie sicher wir sind, wenn wir uns im Internet bewegen; welche Risiken uns dort begegnen; was wir tun können, um uns zu schützen; und warum sich ganz grundsätzlich jeder mit Cybersicherheit beschäftigen sollte. Im Oktober 2020 findet erneut der European Cyber Security Month statt. Die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb und das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) nutzen die europäischen Aktionstage, um das Thema Cyber-Sicherheit in den Fokus von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern, Unternehmen und Institutionen zu rücken. Es gilt, für einen verantwortungsbewussten Umgang im Cyber-Raum zu sensibilisieren. In einer dreiteiligen Reihe sind Expertinnen und Experten im Livestream von bpb und BSI auf der Suche nach Wahrheit und Relevanz im digitalen Raum. Im Gespräch erläutern sie, wie der Cyberraum ganz grundsätzlich funktioniert, wie man Wahrheit von Täuschung unterscheidet und wie sich politische Akteure, Unternehmen und Individuen vor Desinformation schützen können. Über die Sozialen Kanäle könnt ihr euch einmischen, eure Fragen stellen und kommentieren.

Lehren und Lernen mit digitalen Medien II

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Kursinhalt

Dieser MOOC beschäftigt mit dem Einsatz von digitalen Medien sowohl beim Lehren als auch beim Lernen und ist als Vertiefung des Themas gedacht. Es geht dabei vorrangig darum, dass die im Kurs „Lehren und Lernen mit digitalen Medien I“ erlernten Inhalte weiterführend behandelt und damit entsprechende Medienkompetenzen für den eigenen Unterricht erworben werden.

Neben Definitionen und Erklärungen werden auch Praxisbeispiele gezeigt sowie Tipps und Tricks für den Unterrichtsalltag gegeben, sodass Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer digitale Medien sinnvoll in ihren Unterrichts- und Lehralltag integrieren können

Die Inhalte richten sich speziell an Studierende des Lehramts aller Unterrichtsfächer, aber natürlich auch an im Beruf stehende Lehrerinnen und Lehrer sowie alle interessierten Personen, die mehr über die Einsatzmöglichkeiten digitaler Medien für den Unterricht erfahren wollen.

Lernziele

Nach der Absolvierung dieses MOOCs

  • verfügen Sie über vertiefende Kenntnisse in Medieninformatik und Mediendidaktik für die Anwendung im Berufsfeld,
  • verstehen Sie grundlegend die informatische Denkweise und
  • können Sie technologiegestütztes Problemlösen umsetzen und kennen dessen Grenzen.

Lehren und Lernen mit digitalen Medien I

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Kursinhalt

Dieser MOOC beschäftigt sich, wie der Titel bereits voraussagt, mit dem Einsatz von digitalen Medien sowohl beim Lehren als auch beim Lernen. Es geht dabei vorranging um eine erste Einführung in den großen Themenkomplex und soll helfen, entsprechende Medienkompetenzen für den eigenen Unterricht zu erwerben.

Dabei werden neben Definitionen und Erklärungen auch Praxisbeispiele gezeigt sowie Tipps und Tricks für den Unterrichtsalltag gegeben, sodass im Anschluss ein erster eigener Einsatz möglich sein soll.

Die Inhalte richten sich vorerst speziell an Studierende des Lehramts aller Unterrichtsfächer, aber natürlich auch an im Beruf stehende Lehrerinnen und Lehrer sowie an alle interessierten Personen, die mehr über die Einsatzmöglichkeiten digitaler Medien erfahren wollen.

Lernziele

Nach der Absolvierung dieses MOOCs

  • verfügen Sie über grundlegende Kenntnisse im Bereich Medieninformatik, Mediendidaktik und spezifische rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen und können diese erklären.
  • kennen Sie eine Vielzahl an Beispielen aus der Praxis, welche Sie für Ihre jeweiligen Situationen adaptieren und anwenden können.