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WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONSDescription Indeed, today most teachers and educators work in an online learning environment, yet for many of them their immersion in online teaching was a necessary response to the global pandemic. Overnight we changed physical, traditional, learning environment to an online environment. This brought many challenges for teachers. A high number […]
WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONDescription This interactive session will explore the change in assessment in higher education due to the pandemic. Dr. Monica Ward will present a case study from the DCU School of Computing detailing how they managed the change and the types of assessment they adopted. The next speakers will present overviews […]
WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONSDescription During the last year, with education restrictions due to the global pandemic, when educational organizations across the globe were forced to move online under demanding timelines and with budget constraints, many educators have relied on open educational resources OERs to fill a critical need. Open education and OERs have […]
WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONDescription The reference frame is the CHILD C.A. project aimed to improve children’s care in Central Asia (CA) countries through a modern and innovative postgraduate training of the specialists devoted to their care. The goal of the present webinar is to introduce a course based on five meetings, this included, […]
REGISTER ADD TO CALENDARDescription In this webinar, we explore the question is the lecture dead? Will the traditional lecture format be a casualty of efforts to build back better? One of the biggest challenges facing educators when quickly moving to emergency remote online teaching was how to teach large classes effectively. At the beginning of the […]
WATCH THE RECORDINGDescription Is lecture-centered education out-of-date? Pros and cons of synchronous tools at the Faculty of Medicine (on an example of the Jagiellonian University) How to make curricula transnational (on an example of Cologne University) How to facilitate interactive learning activities among students? Are online test examinations useful not only during the pandemic? The […]
WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONSDescription Even the brightest students need guidance in their work. Teaching is usually not enough, and tutors should do their best to mentor students in additional sessions, individual or in group. In these Covid times, students struggle with anxieties, with lack of social interaction, with lack of motivation and with […]
Watch the recordingDescription When all education organizations moved online in Spring, 2020, many of them had no time at all to think about consistent development of digital competences and existing frameworks, but took rapid actions to find most suitable technological solutions to ensure teaching and learning and filled in the skill – gaps of their […]
WATCH THE RECORDINGDescription Distance teaching and learning needs faculty skills development in addition to the training of the participants, therefore the initiatives of distance teaching have to be accompanied by specific faculty development programs providing both pedagogical and technological tools. Moreover, distance teaching should not be limited to formal “academic” teaching , but has to […]
WATCH THE RECORDING VIEW THE PRESENTATIONSDescription Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, new pedagogies have emerged which have the potential to dynamically impact education both now and in the future. Our expert panel of researchers will share their views on these new teaching and learning approaches and how and why they are poised to […]
Description New, flexible and on-demand skills training is needed to tackle digital disruption and generate employment and productivity, especially in disruptive industries. According to OECD, many EU countries have a strong focus on formal education which does not lead to the desired results. Especially adults with low skills are left behind and participation does not […]
DescriptionOne of the goals of the Higher Education Institutions is to extend the education process to professionals through Continuous Education Programs among which those useful to keep updated health professionals. Higher education institutions are not the only players within this field including also scientific societies, health services organizations and their health and management staff, communications […]