ICT for Education and Development

Making teacher-student connections is a key factor to success in a remote learning environment. Discover ways you can connect with your students.

Even before the world got turned upside down and we closed our schools, most people knew that K-12 education was in need of innovative ideas, practice

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The main aim of e-learning is to provide a learning route and curriculum where activities are tailored to individual necessities can be delivered by parents in an at-home setting. In contrast to teacher-directed curricula, personalized eLearning environments are learner-centric, providing timely and relevant learning opportunities by enabling students to select, integrate and construct knowledge from the various technology platforms and services available.

The promise of technology in the classroom is great: enabling personalized, mastery-based learning; saving teacher time; and equipping students with the digital skills they will need for 21st-century careers. Indeed, controlled pilot studies have shown meaningful improvements in student outcomes through personalized blended learning. 1 During this time of school shutdowns and remote learning, education technology has become a lifeline for the continuation of learning.

Learning as a function of “activity, context and culture” is more effective than passive learning that involves simple intake of theory without any active involvement. That is exactly where the effectiveness of scenario-based learning lies – learners learn better (qualitatively) and more (quantitatively) when they are actively involved in the process of learning.

But to make the most of this high-returns learning strategy, one needs to get it right. Scenario-based learning is a strategy wherein learners are placed in virtual work-like situations where they have to make decisions and face the consequences of their actions in a safe, risk-free environment. This translates into highly engaging experiential learning that is retained for a long time.

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A mini-course is a short-form learning experience for students that helps them tackle a new skill. Instead of a big topic, it focuses on sub-topics that are more suitable to being broken down into chunks. A student might take a mini-course in isolation. Or they might take a series of mini-courses to build mastery around a broader topic.

The benefits of a mini-course are manifold. Students can see big ideas as a combination of smaller ones. This means a concept might not feel as overwhelming as if it was all grouped together at the start. It also allows students to carve out a smaller amount of time at first to see if a topic is actually of interest to them.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a great way to learn more and practice your creative thinking skills with leading universities around the world.  We found twelve FREE MOOCs offered across Coursera, Edx, and Future Learn.  Below you will find the links to the MOOCs, along with their course descriptions from their websites.  

Latin America is one of the most unequal regions in the world. Three-quarters of Latin Americans are categorized as low or lower-middle-income with 30% living below the poverty line. Though many countries in the region have made significant strides towards lowering income inequality in the past few years, the richest decile of Latin Americans still owns 71% of the region’s wealth. Combine the region’s income inequality with the COVID-19 crisis, and low-income families are now facing unprecedented challenges.

Our current thinking that huddles groups of students in small rooms in brick buildings is based on problems that are no longer problems.

Teachers all over the country are being asked to teach 'concurrent classrooms' in which some students attend class in person and others attend virtually. The teacher in a concurrent classroom attempts to meet the needs of the students in class

by Rachel Garlinghouse

By Emelina Minero

For instructional designers, 2020 will be known as the year when e-learning turned completely upside down. Across the world, Covid-19 forced k-12 schools, universities, and businesses to switch to a remote-learning model virtually overnight. IDs spent a whirlwind few months trying to facilitate that change and will now spend the rest of the year dealing with the repercussions of Covid-19 on the online learning world.‍

IDs have an unprecedented opportunity to help reshape the education field while helping instructors and students overcome the many challenges of remote and online learning.

We asked five top IDs in university and corporate learning fields to identify the top challenges for e-learning instructional design right now and to share how IDs can prepare to face these challenges in 2020 and beyond.

"With school plans for the fall focused less on reopening and more on resuming remote learning, the mixed experience with online instruction from the spring offers many lessons for how district leaders can better prepare for this next go around."

Teachers and staff need Google training more than ever! In this guest post by Pam Hubler, she shares how she developed and implemented Google Challenges to deliver Virtual PD at her school.

Instead of fearing the invisible monster under the bed, I’ve stumbled into something more akin to Narnia: there is a whole new side to teaching online which can eventually complement, rather than replace, our traditional physical classroom practises.