Making Teacher Education Relevant for 21st Century Africa (FutureLearn)

You’ll find out how to incorporate open educational resources (OERs) into teacher education, and help teachers use active learning and ICT.

What topics will you cover?

• Examine what is meant by ‘learner-centred education’;
• Focus on the ‘how’ of active teaching and learning and learner-centred education;
• Introduce the UNESCO ICT Competency framework for teachers, and exploring the role of teacher educators in supporting teachers to enact these practices;
• Provide examples of classroom practice which draws on ICT to support learning;
• Introduce OER in general and, TESSA in particular, as a way of supporting their own work and the work of pre-service and in-service teachers in developing active approaches to teaching and learning.

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

• Develop a plan to incorporate ICT tools and OER into your own practice to support the learning of the teachers and student teachers you are working with
• Explain how ICT tools can be used to enhance teacher learning and promote active learning in school
• Engage with the TESSA OER and identify ways in which they can be integrated into your teaching
• Collect specific examples to show how ICT can be integrated into classroom teaching to enhance learning
• Explore and evaluate OER repositories that that are relevant to your practice and support active teaching and learning
• Collaborate with colleagues in order to review practice in your institution
• Explain and demonstrate the values and practices that support learner-centred education