POK for Teachers

Smart Learning Design

How to design effective blended learning and teaching experiences?

Discover the “Smart Learning Design”, a visual model to design effective learning and teaching experiences in a blended mode taking into account all its different dimensions: in presence and online, sinchronous and asinchronous.

Designing Learning Innovation

What does learning innovation mean? Where to start to innovate your teaching? How does digitalization affect teaching?

The goal of this MOOC is to put design culture at the service of educational innovation. It will offer you some basic tools to design your lessons efficiently and to implement active learning.

To Flip or not to Flip: discover the flipped classroom methodology

How does the flipped classroom work? How can you implement it within your teaching activities? This MOOC is an introduction to the Flipped Classroom: it addresses the key issues of this approach, also thanks to testimonies resulting from international university experiences. Special attention is dedicated to the STEM world.

Using Open Educational Resources in Teaching

What are Open Educational Resources? What role do they play in the teaching-learning experience? Learn how to leverage Open Educational Resources in your lessons, the advantages they can provide, and the variety of content they can offer.

Engaging Students in Active Learning

How to support your students’ learning? How to make the lesson more effective and engaging? To answer these questions, you may put yourself in the student’s shoes and understand the advantages of active learning. You will discover the importance of enabling a safe learning environment, of experiencing reality from different perspectives, of critically analyzing both the content and the learning process.

Active Learning for Soft Skills Development

Can you support students in acquiring soft skills? How can you equip them for facing the complexities of the world of work? No matter the subject you teach: you can empower your students’ soft and digital skills by re-designing some key activities and using active learning. Join the MOOC to learn more!

New Assessment Strategies: the magic of feedback

Can you better prepare students for the exam? Does assessment necessarily have to be a “stressful” event? You can integrate assessment throughout the whole learning experience and guide students all the way to the final assessment. Effective and supportive feedback is the key element in engaging with students and steering their efforts toward efficient learning.

Teaching and Learning in Multicultural Contexts

What do you know about multiculturality in academic contexts? Are you interested in the internationationalization of higher education?

This MOOC has the aim to enhance the intercultural and global citizens’ skills and practices of university teachers (and of any teacher who’s interested in these issues), so that they can consciously foster the same skills as their student, to better co-live together and collaborate in multicultural contexts.

“Introduzione al Debate” series

What is Debate? How does it work? How to assess it and what criteria to use? In this MOOC you’ll find answers to these questions as well as practical recommendations and tips from expert teachers.

Fostering women’s participation to STEM through MOOCs

Can you create STEM educational content that is gender bias-free, yet effective and inclusive? The course raises awareness about the value of developing inclusive MOOCs and provides a practical tool for designing them.