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Dr Clare Brooks

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UCL Institute of Education

What future for education?

University of London

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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?

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Flexible deadlines

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Shareable Certificate

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100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Approx. 14 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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Dr Clare Brooks

UCL Institute of Education, University of London

51,385 Learners

1 Course

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University of London

The University of London is a federal University which includes 18 world leading Colleges. Our distance learning programmes were founded in 1858 and have enriched the lives of thousands of students, delivering high quality University of London degrees wherever our students are across the globe. Our alumni include 7 Nobel Prize winners. Today, we are a global leader in distance and flexible study, offering degree programmes to over 50,000 students in over 180 countries. To find out more about studying for one of our degrees where you are, visit www.london.ac.uk

UCL Institute of Education

The UCL Institute of Education (IOE) is the world's leading centre for education and social science research, teaching, and engagement. Founded in 1902, the Institute currently has more than 8,000 students and 800 staff. In December 2014 it became a single-faculty school of UCL, called the UCL Institute of Education (IOE).

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

3 hours to complete

How do we learn?

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.

3 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 51 min), 7 readings, 1 quiz

7 videos

Clare's introduction to What future for education?4m

Lecture 1 How do we learn?11m

Lecture 2 How do we learn? cont'd7m

Lecture 3 How do we learn? cont'd9m

Lecture 4 How do we learn? optional extra4m

Lecture 5 How do we learn? optional cont'd7m

Lecture 6 How do we learn? optional cont'd5m

7 readings

Syllabus10m

Grading10m

Glossary of Terms10m

How do we learn? (about week 1)10m

This week's readings (and lectures)10m

Let's discuss...10m

Reflections10m

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

What is intelligence and does it matter?

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.

2 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 37 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz

Week

Week 3

3 hours to complete

What makes a good teacher?

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.

3 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 53 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz

Week

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Can schools make a difference?

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

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 19 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM WHAT FUTURE FOR EDUCATION?

by JBFeb 5, 2017

Insightful and reflective material; great facilitators. The sessions were a little less engaging in between because the facilitators didn't talk to/engage the user but were talking between them.

by TGAug 30, 2017

The course consists of interviews of various researchers at UCL on various topics such as how do we learn, what is a good school/teacher etc

by YSFeb 4, 2020

Best course plus eye opener for new students as well as provides us with multiple perspective and make us think what future of education is like .

by SKJun 6, 2020

One of the best courses I have taken till date. Lots of Learning and Very interesting assessment methods. Indeed looking forward to connect with similar minds on What's Future for education.

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