On behalf of the Open University:
(We) would like to bring your attention to a free online course that will be launched on 2nd November 2023:
DIGITAL LEARNING FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS IN FORCIBLY DISPLACED COMMUNITIES
In the run up to the Global Refugee Forum 2023, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, The Open University UK and the Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium are launching a new course to promote critical, participatory and inclusive approaches to digital learning for forcibly displaced youth and adults.
The course has been designed for policy makers, programme providers and digital learning practitioners who are developing, implementing and monitoring digital learning activities in contexts of forced displacement.
Join us in learning together with a global community to gain practical knowledge and tools to enhance policies and programmes in your country!
YOU WILL:
- Explore ways in which digital learning, teaching and training has been provided in contexts of forced displacement.
- Consider the benefits of offering digital learning programmes to forcibly displaced populations.
- Investigate how educational technologies can exclude learners and exacerbate inequality.
- Explore how a ‘co-creation of learning’ approach can result in supportive and empowering learning experiences, especially for displaced people, and help ensure that learning activities are relevant, inclusive and sustainable.
- Examine ways of embedding equity-related issues in the design and development of digital learning programmes.
- Learn about the ways in which conventional monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks can be limiting and how participatory approaches can ensure learners’ voices and ‘lived experience’ are represented in the evidence generated from digital learning programmes.
COURSE STRUCTURE:
12 hours of learning
4 units to be completed over six weeks
One live, facilitated session on either 4 December or 6 December 2023
- Unit 1: Understanding forcibly displaced communities and what digital learning can offer
- Unit 2: Leveraging different approaches to learning with technology
- Unit 3: Co-creating learner-centred digital programmes
- Unit 4: Participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning
A certificate of participation and digital badge will be awarded upon course completion.
If you would like to participate, first create an account on the OpenLearnCreate platform and bookmark the link so you can sign-up to this in a few days. Some more information is included in the attached flyer. Please get in touch if you have any questions about this by emailing Koula Charitonos ([email protected]).
Best wishes,
Koula Charitonos (OU), Jian Xi Teng (UIL) and Francis Randle (UNHCR)
https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/index.php?categoryid=1194
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