What future for education?

What future for education?

Instructor: Dr Clare Brooks

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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2 weeks to complete

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Learn at your own pace

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Most learners liked this course

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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 videos Total 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'd 8 minutes
Lecture 3 How do we learn? cont'd 10 minutes
Lecture 4 How do we learn? optional extra 4 minutes
Lecture 5 How do we learn? optional cont'd 7 minutes
Lecture 6 How do we learn? optional cont'd 6 minutes

7 readings Total 70 minutes

Syllabus 10 minutes
Grading 10 minutes
Glossary of Terms 10 minutes
How do we learn? (about week 1) 10 minutes
This week's readings (and lectures) 10 minutes
Let's discuss... 10 minutes
Reflections 10 minutes

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Journal entry for Week 1 120 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 videos Total 37 minutes

Lecture 1 What is intelligence? 10 minutes
Lecture 2 What is intelligence cont'd 6 minutes
Lecture 3 What is intelligence cont'd 8 minutes
Lecture 4 What is intelligence cont'd 13 minutes

4 readings Total 40 minutes

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

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Journal Entry for Week 2 120 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 videos Total 53 minutes

Lecture 1 What makes a good teacher? 7 minutes
Lecture 2 What makes a good teacher? cont'd 10 minutes
Lecture 3 What makes a good teacher? cont'd 8 minutes
Lecture 4 What makes a good teacher? cont'd 11 minutes
Lecture 5 What makes a good teacher? cont'd 9 minutes
Lecture 6 What makes a good teacher? cont'd 8 minutes

4 readings Total 40 minutes

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

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Journal entry for Week 3 120 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 videos Total 19 minutes

Lecture 1 What makes a good school? 8 minutes
Lecture 2 What makes a good school? cont'd 4 minutes
Lecture 3 What makes a good school? cont'd 7 minutes

4 readings Total 40 minutes

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

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Journal entry for Week 4 120 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 videos Total 46 minutes

Lecture 1 What are governments' priorities for education? 8 minutes
Lecture 2 What are governments' priorities for education? cont'd 8 minutes
Lecture 3 What are governments' priorities for education? cont'd 6 minutes
Lecture 4 What are governments' priorities for education? cont'd 6 minutes
Lecture 5 What are governments' priorities for education? cont'd 7 minutes
Lecture 6 What are governments' priorities for education? cont'd 11 minutes

4 readings Total 40 minutes

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

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Journal entry for Week 5 120 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 Feb 27, 2019

I loved every moment of this course! It's quite informative and inspiring. I am personally looking forward to more Acheivment in education!!! Thank you UCL!

Reviewed on Apr 2, 2016

Really helped to reflect my thoughts on education and how can we improve it. Got some peer reviews and they were really motivating and I am thankful for such great peer review system to Coursera

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!

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