9 online courses about education

May selection of free online courses for those who want to become experts of pedagogy or learning

Every month, Mooc platforms appear myriads of courses for teachers and those who explore education or are interested in them. To save you from the need to painfully select the most interesting and useful from them, Edutainme represent the May selection of free online courses for those who want to become experts of pedagogy or training .

Academic English guide for students
Future Learn, from May 4 to June 8 (Reading University)

Academic English is the first thing to study when preparing to enter abroad. The smiling Englishman in five weeks of this course will teach you how to write the perfect essay and will help to tighten the grammar and vocabulary. You can also understand in which aspects of the academic English differs from the conversational or the one that you were taught at school.

IELTS: How to hand over an English language test
Future Learn, from May 11 to June 22 (British Council)

The British Council is an international organization responsible for promoting English culture outside the UK. In Russia, British Council organizes both lectures and parties. This time, the organization holds a one and a half-month online course on the intricacies of preparing for the most popular exam to determine the level of English-IELTS. Last year, more than two million people passed it. The course will help to understand how the exam is evaluated, what parts consists of, well, to practice in tasks with other people studying English around the world.

How to use data arrays to improve the educational process
EDX, from May 12 (Harvard University)

The professor of pedagogy from Harvard will teach, within the framework of this Mooc, the students that we receive, checking the tasks and communicating with them. A teacher who has listened to the course will be able to find patterns without a supercomputer, analyzing the data of data, and thereby improve the effectiveness of the transmission and acquisition of knowledge. The online course is based on the book written by its lecturer. In addition, all Mooc participants from Harvard can take part in a large-scale study of online learning.

Open educational resources (OR) for teaching
EDX , from May 27 to July 8 (open education consortium)

How can Oer change pedagogy? How will they help even the simplest rural teacher? How to switch to teaching, focused on the needs of each particular student? What is needed to establish feedback with students? Experts who have been engaged in the professional training of teachers in India for three years will answer these questions, and also prepared an open database of educational texts and video materials.

Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning
Coursera, from May 3 to June 7 (Houston University)

The curriculum of the course is built around the concepts of communication, cooperation and creativity, as well as how they change with the advent of information technology. They promise to discuss not only the services that help the teacher in the modern world, but also give recommendations on the organization of the personal educational environment, which is useful at any age.

Assessment of academic performance in the virtual class
Coursera, from May 18 to June 21 (California University in Irvain)

Another course in the specialty virtual teacher is devoted to the evaluation problem. In the virtual class, you will not put a plusk for smart eyes so much, so you have to master more sophisticated methods of testing academic performance. The authors of the course will tell what groups can be divided into students, what technologies will help to evaluate their knowledge, as well as how to track and draw conclusions from the information received for all these.

ICT in primary education
Coursera, from May 26 to June 7 (London University, UNESCO)

The course is carried out by instructors from eight countries, including Natalya Tokarev from Russia. The materials of this MOOC are prepared using the results of research on the Institute of Information Technologies in the Education of UNESCO located in Moscow. Key topics - what is the primary school of the 21st century and how technologies can help teachers. The creators of the course set the goal of changing education all over the world with the help of meaningful implementation of information and communication technologies.

Preschool education

Two Russian MOOCs for preschool education have already appeared in the April selection. But they, apparently, were so popular that they are launched this month for the second time.

Universerium , from May 18 to June 13 (group of experts from various institutions)

The first course of this conditional block starts at the very beginning of April and is dedicated to the new state standards of preschool education. The course has five lecturers at once, including from the MPSU, who will talk about changes in the regulatory framework, and how all this should affect curricula and psychological competencies. In a word, after listening to this online course, you will learn everything you need about the new GEFs.

Universerium , from May 25 (group of experts from various institutions)

The second course is also devoted to preschool education, in the context of not so much state standards as the foundations of modern preschool pedagogy. Within the framework of this, Mooc on problematic cases promise to analyze such concepts as gaming education, emotional intelligence in children, as well as methods of interacting with parents and working with gifted preschoolers. One of the experts (Natalya Miklyaeva, MPGU) also teaches in the previous course, which allows them to combine them into one mini-program in preschool education.