About the course
The Empowering Digital Teachers badge represents 20 hours of self-paced 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 and and score at least 80% in all of the quizzes
Modules
Introduction
Digital Resources
Communication and Collaboration
Teaching and Learning
Empowering Learners and Facilitating Learners' Digital Competence
Inclusive Digital Learning
Assessment
Wrapping Up
- 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
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 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
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
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
- Assessment - Role of Feedback
- Self-Assessment
- Peer-Reviewed Assignment
- References
Wrapping Up
- Introduction to Wrapping Up
- Where am I in digital learning now?
- Reflect on your learning experience