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The Empowering Digital Teachers badge represents 20 hours of blended digital learning. The course has been designed to help educators build their confidence and skills around using digital technology to support the learning and teaching process. There are 7 modules each with a quiz included. Learners are required to complete all 7 modules, participate in all of the discussions, score at least 80% in all of the quizzes and submit at least 1 assignment successfully.
Modules
Introduction
- What is digital learning?
- Exploring the concept of digital learning
- Progress check - digital learning
- Where am I in digital learning?
Digital Resources
- Introduction to digital resources
- Key considerations when creating digital learning materials
- What digital learning materials and resources are you aware of?
- Recycling (your own) existing digital learning materials
- Recycling PowerPoint Presentations
- Privacy issues
- Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
- Using Creative Commons Resources
- Using Creative Commons Resources
- Sharing digital content
- Generate a License
- Addressing heterogeneity
- Digital Resources Quiz
- Digital Resources Assignment
Communication and Collaboration
- Introduction to Communication and Collaboration
- Communication & Collaboration Reading 1
- Communication & Collaboration Definitons and Categories
- Synchronous Communication
- Asynchronous Communication
- Examples and differences of Synchronous and Asynchronous communication
- Examples and differences of Synchronous and Asynchronous communication
- Communication and Collaboration... explore further
- Communication and Collaboration Discussion
- Communication and Collaboration Assignment
- Communication and Collaboration Quiz
Teaching and Learning
- Introduction to Teaching & Learning
- Good practice in digital teaching
- Good practice in digital teaching
- Digital teaching in a school context
- What do I want to achieve by using digital teaching?
- Selecting technology for digital teaching
- National differences in making decisions about digital teaching
- Methods (and tools) for effective digital teaching
- Classroom Management
- Teaching & Learning Quiz
- Teaching & Learning Assignment
Empowering Learners and Facilitating Learners' Digital Competence
- Introduction to Empowering Learners and facilitating learners' digital competence 1
- Introduction to Empowering Learners and facilitating learners' digital competence 2
- Facilitating learners' digital competence
- Share your experience with others: tips on how to develop a positive student-teacher relationship in a digital learning environment.
- Online privacy
- Empowering Learners Assignment Online Privacy.
- Cyberbullying
- Empowering Learners Quiz
- Empowering Learners Assignment Cyberbullying Assignment
Inclusive Digital Learning
- Introduction to Inclusive Digital Learning 1
- Definition of Inclusive Digital Learning
- Performance Related Heterogeneity - Introduction
- Performance Related Heterogeneity - Learning Diagnosis
- Performance Related Heterogeneity - Levels of Differentiation - Quiz
- Performance Related Heterogeneity - Individualised Learning Goals
- Performance Related Heterogeneity - Flexible Forms of Teaching and Self-Organised Forms of Learning
- Socio-economic Heterogeneity - Quiz
- Inclusive Digital Learning - Online Cooperative Games
- Online Cooperative Games - Community Collection
- Inclusive Digital Learning - References
Assessment
- Introduction to Assessment
- Forms of Assessment
- Assessment Criteria
- Discussion: Develop Assessment Criteria for a Particular Task
- Assessment - Role of Feedback
- Self-Assessment
- Self Assessment Discussion: Advantages and Disadvantages
- Peer-Reviewed Assignment
- References
Wrapping Up
- Introduction to Wrapping Up
- Where am I in digital learning now?
- Reflect on your learning experience