What future for education?

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What future for education?

Instructor: Dr Clare Brooks

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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There are 6 modules in this course

Through this course you will start to critically examine your own ideas about education, teaching and learning. The critique will be developed through engagement with theories and ideas developed through educational research. You will be encouraged to use these ideas to challenge or support your own ideas about education.

Each week we will focus on one key question, using video lectures, key readings and challenges to explore some commonplace notions about education. With the guidance of the course team, you will be asked to use these ideas to critically reflect on your own understandings and experience. By the end of the course, you will have developed a personal response to the main question: what is your preferred future for education?

This week we focus on the important question of "how do we learn?". One of our aims this week is to demonstrate the learning approach of this course as well as to get you to think about how you have learnt in the past, and to question some of your own assumptions about learning.

What's included

7 videos7 readings1 peer review

7 videosTotal 51 minutes

Clare's introduction to What future for education?4 minutes
Lecture 1 How do we learn?12 minutes
Lecture 2 How do we learn? cont'd8 minutes
Lecture 3 How do we learn? cont'd10 minutes
Lecture 4 How do we learn? optional extra4 minutes
Lecture 5 How do we learn? optional cont'd7 minutes
Lecture 6 How do we learn? optional cont'd6 minutes

7 readingsTotal 70 minutes

Syllabus10 minutes
Grading10 minutes
Glossary of Terms10 minutes
How do we learn? (about week 1)10 minutes
This week's readings (and lectures)10 minutes
Let's discuss...10 minutes
Reflections10 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 120 minutes

Journal entry for Week 1120 minutes

In this second week of the course we focus on the tricky issue of intelligence. In the resources this week, we explore what we mean by intelligence and how it can affect learning and educational success.

What's included

4 videos4 readings1 peer review

4 videosTotal 37 minutes

Lecture 1 What is intelligence?10 minutes
Lecture 2 What is intelligence cont'd6 minutes
Lecture 3 What is intelligence cont'd8 minutes
Lecture 4 What is intelligence cont'd13 minutes

4 readingsTotal 40 minutes

What is intelligence and does it matter? (about week 2)10 minutes
This week's readings10 minutes
Let's discuss...10 minutes
Reflections10 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 120 minutes

Journal Entry for Week 2120 minutes

In the third week of this course, we turn our attention from learning to teaching. In the resources this week we explore our images of "good" teachers and consider where these images come from.

What's included

6 videos4 readings1 peer review

6 videosTotal 53 minutes

Lecture 1 What makes a good teacher?7 minutes
Lecture 2 What makes a good teacher? cont'd10 minutes
Lecture 3 What makes a good teacher? cont'd8 minutes
Lecture 4 What makes a good teacher? cont'd11 minutes
Lecture 5 What makes a good teacher? cont'd9 minutes
Lecture 6 What makes a good teacher? cont'd8 minutes

4 readingsTotal 40 minutes

What makes a good teacher? (about week 3)10 minutes
This week's readings10 minutes
Let's discuss...10 minutes
Reflections10 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 120 minutes

Journal entry for Week 3120 minutes

In this fourth week, we turn our attention from individual classrooms and the relationship between learning and teaching, and focus on schools as organisations

What's included

3 videos4 readings1 peer review

3 videosTotal 19 minutes

Lecture 1 What makes a good school?8 minutes
Lecture 2 What makes a good school? cont'd4 minutes
Lecture 3 What makes a good school? cont'd7 minutes

4 readingsTotal 40 minutes

Can schools make a difference? (about week 4)10 minutes
This week's readings10 minutes
Let's discuss...10 minutes
Reflections10 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 120 minutes

Journal entry for Week 4120 minutes

In this penultimate week of the course we expand our discussion still further and consider the role education plays in our societies.

What's included

6 videos4 readings1 peer review

6 videosTotal 46 minutes

Lecture 1 What are governments' priorities for education?8 minutes
Lecture 2 What are governments' priorities for education? cont'd8 minutes
Lecture 3 What are governments' priorities for education? cont'd6 minutes
Lecture 4 What are governments' priorities for education? cont'd6 minutes
Lecture 5 What are governments' priorities for education? cont'd7 minutes
Lecture 6 What are governments' priorities for education? cont'd11 minutes

4 readingsTotal 40 minutes

Why do governments fund education? (about week 5)10 minutes
This week's readings10 minutes
Let's discuss...10 minutes
Reflections10 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 120 minutes

Journal entry for Week 5120 minutes

In this final week of the course, we return to the question that started it all off: what future for education? The content is a little different this week, but the structure should be familiar to you.

What's included

1 video4 readings1 peer review

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Dr Clare Brooks

University of London

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Reviewed on Sep 20, 2015

Great course! I enjoyed it very much. I feel like it is slightly more directed at teachers and those who have a career in education, rather than individuals interested in the topic.

Reviewed on Feb 27, 2020

It is a very good way of enhancing our skills in dealing with the use of technology. Engaging in this course open my eyes in all issues in aspect of education. I've learned a lot. Thank You!

Reviewed on Jan 7, 2020

Very good course. I enjoyed it from the moment I started. Just one review, some of the talks were too long, and not very integrating. Try to create a better variety of different learning materials.

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