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ICT in Education Prize laureate Kiron offering free online teaching during COVID-19 outbreak
With due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers have to transition quickly to distance learning to ensure the continuation of education. Kiron, who has experience with universities teaching remotely for underserved communities, is offering a for teachers to help them create an online learning environment.
鈥淭he coronavirus reinforces a need that already exists anyway. More and more students are looking for digital formats to complement classroom teaching, that are appropriate to their mobile lifestyles. At the same time, digital education can respond to individual learning needs and make a major contribution to educational equity,鈥 says Dr. Tobias Ernst, Managing Director at Kiron. 鈥淜iron鈥檚 mission is to support this worldwide, with our experience, resources and skills鈥.
The tutorial takes the form of video lessons. The videos explain key concepts such as synchronous and asynchronous learning, MOOC, OER or blended learning. They also offer guidance on the differences between online and offline teaching, on strategies for creating an online methodology, improving one鈥檚 online presence, increasing active participation from students online, addressing the gender question and finally creating a learning environment.
The videos are part of a larger 鈥淭eaching Online鈥 study program and were produced by Kiron and the Technical University of L眉beck funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. On the platform, Kiron makes content from the free course publicly available to anyone interested, helping educators who are teaching online for the first time with practical tips to facilitate the transition into online learning.
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