CAS Digital Learning in Emergencies (2022-23)/module4-ibrahimkhatip88
Introduction
This page is part of CAS Digital Learning in Emergencies (module 4) and is prepared by Ibrahim and Abed.
Learning outcomes
- Recognize the advantages of Open Education and Open Educatinal Resources in crisis affected contexts and different contexts.
- Recognize concepts of (1) open content, (2) open assessment approaches, (3) open resources education (4) open pedagogy and (5) open contents.
- Apply Open Licenses to the content.
- Recognize initiatives and best practices of open education.
Time necessary
16 Hours
Detailed description
The project is composed of five steps:
- Describing the learning resources
- Setting learning objectives
- Targeting the audience
- Designing learning activities.
- Choosing learning environment.
- Identifying learning assessments.
- Finding relevant OER for the project
- Scripting activities with Open Educational Practices, specifying the roles of the different stakeholders.
- Designing evaluation criteria to create an Open Badge.
- Sharing the project on an Open platform.
Activities
| Activity | Duration | Date | Product / output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Define the project, i.e. describe the resources; set objectives; specify target audience; design learning activities; choose learning environment; specify assessment | 3 h | 20-21 Dec 2022 | Project designed |
| Project Open Education Resources | 6 h | 22-23 Dec 2022 | OER for the project chosen |
| Script 1 activity with OEP | 10 h | 25-29 Dec 2022 | Script activities prepared |
| Design evaluation criteria | 5 h | 30-31 Dec 2022 | Evaluation criteria identified |
| Create an Open badge | 5 h | 2-4 Jan 2023 | Open badge created |
| Publish and share the project on the chosen Open platform | 4 h | 5-6 Jan 2023 | Project published |
Project Open Educational Resources
For the project, the following Open Education Resources OER were chosen:
Project Description
The aim of Safe Schools learning program is to improve the safety and protection of children in and around the schools in which attendees are working through inquiry-based learning, which in turn will provide concrete inputs into existing School Improvement Plans. In addition, successful work at the school level will support advocacy efforts to replicate and scale up the approach through national policies and systems.
The project – Safe Schools learning program -targets humanitarian workers in the education sector in civil society organizations, local authorities, and school principals in northwest Syria. The project meets INEE 2nd domain “access learning environment” -standard 2 protection and well-being – which aims to present that learning environments are secure and safe and promote the protection and the psychosocial well-being of learners, teachers, and other education personnel. Also, the project will contribute to achieving SDG4 -Quality Education-, target 4. a “ Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all”.
The modules are:
- Mod 1: Build a Safe Schools Team
- Mod 2: Welcome Safe School Team
- Mod 3: What is Risk
- Mod 4: Reduce and Mitigate Risks
- Mod 5: Take Action
The whole training will be conducted digitally and materials in this training will be available online, open, and will benefit education practitioners who find themselves working in crisis-affected environments.
Target audience
Education practitioners in NWS including representatives of Education Directorate, NGOs and Schools principal. Participants age group is between 25-60. All participants have experience in education sector in NWS and they are decision makers in their contexts. Participants are workers in Education Directorate and NGO who implementing/supervising projects.
Project's objective
Global objective
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Global goal 1 : Education facilities built and upgraded that were child, disability, and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all”. (SDG4 / Target 4. a)
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Global goal 2: Learning environments are secure and safe and promote the protection and psychosocial well-being of learners, teachers, and other education personnel. (INEE/domain 2 / standard 2)
Specific objective
By the end of the training, 20 education practitioners will be able to list key activities for safe schools, explain how to contextualize Safe Schools activities in NWS, and develop a plan for advancing Safe Schools in NWS.
Learning outcomes
Learners will be able to:
- Identify protection activities in school
- List protection activities in safe school
- Integrate protection activities in their school/projects
- Generate plans of safe schools to react if a dangerous event occurs
Project design
With the main 5 modules identifies along with their learning objectives. The training consists of modules 5, based on 3 theoretical approach and 2 practical approach, 11 sessions with 16 hours of instructions that will be divided into 2 training days, 8 hours per day including breaks. The modules are:
- Mod 1: Build a Safe Schools Team (1 Sessions; 3 hrs)
- Mod 2: Welcome Safe School Team (2 sessions; 3 hrs)
- Mod 3: What is Risk (2 sessions; 3 hrs)
- Mod 4: Reduce and Mitigate Risks(3 sessions; 3 hrs)
- Mod 5: Take Action(2 sessions; 4 hrs)
Each module is made up of 2 sessions designed to introduce educational practitioners to key concepts and tools by modeling participatory, interactive, learner’s centered pedagogies that they can experience and then try in their schools/projects. The training modules will be delivered remotely in synchronous on Zoom and asynchronous on Google doc and Google Drive. Participants will be requested to complete homework assignments in between modules and all homework's, materials and tasks will be uploaded on Google Drive.