Digital Transformation in the Classroom (FutureLearn)

Digital Transformation in the Classroom (FutureLearn)

Adapt your teaching methods to the digital world and enable digital transformation in schools with this digital learning course. Discover digital learning and accelerate digital transformation in the classroom. How can teachers adapt their classroom practice to a developing digital world? On this course, you will explore the opportunities and challenges of moving from using long-established print technologies to new working principles introduced by digital technologies.

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You will be introduced to the ways to plan for a digital classroom and approaches to predict the outcome of using digital technologies in your teaching practice.
This course will deepen your understanding of the digital world, as you follow authentic examples from the classroom and discover how you can benefit your teaching practice.

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Reflect upon the meaning of digitalization and relate the term to the 4th Industrial Revolution, the relationships between new technologies and organizing of work and the network society and social networks and digital technologies.
  • Explain how the introduction of new digital technologies in a teaching setting challenges established teachings practices, and what consequences new digital technologies can have on teachings practices.
  • Describe the planning of a digital classroom practice by selecting digital technologies, use the method of node-mapping, work with themes and create learning activities with use of digital technologies.
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