A massive open online course (MOOC) for to help educators bring more technology skills into the classroom has been officially launched.
21st Century Learning Design (21CLD), seeks to develop communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills. The course will be available through the Microsoft Educator Community, an online portal accessible to the educators across the globe.
The course was developed by St Patrick’s College in Dublin along with DCU and H2 Learning, an Irish e-learning services and consultancy organisation.
The 21CLD course will allow Irish teachers, and teachers around the globe, to embed ICT more effectively into their classroom teaching by designing learning activities that develop 21st century skills. Many teachers struggle to use ICT effectively with their learners and this course is designed to help them address this challenge.
The course is designed to be a living resource where teachers and others engage with the resource and with their peers from around the globe. It is envisaged that the participants will actively contribute to the course by providing an array of digital artefacts that can help all teachers to enhance their professional practice.
Featured in the 21CLD MOOC are Kate Murray Principal of St Augustine’s National School, Clontuskert, Co. Galway and Barry Corrigan who teaches in Millennium Integrated Primary School, Saintfield, Co. Down. These teachers used video to document their own approaches to 21st century learning design and highlight how the 21st century skills can be developed among pupils of all ages and across all the curriculum areas.
“21CLD is a major part of our commitment to support teacher professional learning. The constantly changing world that we live in presents tremendous opportunity for young people but we in industry as well as the education community have a responsibility to ensure that they have the skills to help them exploit those opportunities fully. Teachers are central to this goal,” said Regina Murray, Microsoft’s head of education for Europe.
“We have worked with teachers for many years, supporting them as they seek to integrate digital technologies into the classroom and to help them constantly upskill. This new course adds to the materials, programmes and assets already available and we believe it will be a catalyst for change as it makes the tools and information even more accessible than ever before.”
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