Eileen Kennedy and Mustafa Habib. In February 2019 UCL ran its first Arabic MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) on the Edraak platform, which provides free online learning in Arabic. One year later, we are about to launch the second run…
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A more collaborative learning design is transforming Arabic MOOCs
Tagged with: conflict and mass displacement, education for refugees, International development, MOOCs, teacher education
Posted in International development
Posted in International development
Better together: why teacher education needs universities as well as schools
By Clare Brooks and Jo McIntyre. For a decade, national teacher education policy has focused on increasing the number of teacher training places in school-led programmes and diversifying the range of providers, and decreasing the involvement of universities. The idea that universities have…
Tagged with: initial teacher education, teacher education, universities
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, Teachers
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, Teachers
Schooling for refugee children: how MOOCs support teachers in the world’s most challenging situations
Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy, UCL Knowledge Lab More than half the world’s refugees are children. Most of these children will spend their whole childhood away from home, with little access to education. In the context of the Syrian crisis…
Tagged with: MOOCs, refugee children, teacher education
Posted in International development, Teachers
Posted in International development, Teachers
Teacher training and the ‘problem of more’ – how do we scale up without sacrificing quality?
Clare Brooks. As schools begin a new term, many headteachers are faced with chronic gaps in their staffing. It is at this time of year that the teacher shortage is most keenly felt. At the same time teacher education and…
Until the DFE understands curriculum its well-meaning pilots will run off course
Arthur Chapman and Sandra Leaton Gray. Colleagues at the UCL Institute of Education were very excited a few weeks ago to see that the Department for Education had announced funding for a number of school-centred Curriculum Programme pilots worth £2.2 million. …
Tagged with: curriculum, enquiry-based learning, teacher education
Posted in Education policy, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
Posted in Education policy, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
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