Our latest CoMOOC, Understanding Education inn Conflict and Crisis Settings, launched on 6th January 2025.
The course was co-designed with displaced teachers and teacher educators from Myanmar living on the Thailand Myanmar border.
Teachers in many parts of the world have an especially difficult task when their students are in the midst of conflict or any other kind of crisis. However, we know that the teacher is the most important factor affecting the quality of education, particularly in such contexts – but they do need support. We worked with the NGO InEd to co-design this course, based partly on our CoMOOCs from Lebanon and partly on the in-person teacher education that the many communities on the border with Myanmar offer their teachers. We wanted to scale this up, keep it always available and bring all of the excellent work together in one place.
To co-design the course, we held workshops in Mae Sot, where all of our contributing organisations worked together to design the course and develop the content. When we designed the course, we embedded opportunities for teachers to share their knowledge with each other and build useful resources together. This is what we call a Co-designed Massive Open Online Collaboration – a CoMOOC – because collaboration is both at the heart of how the course was designed, and central to how participants will experience learning on it.
The CoMOOC builds on a range of educational approaches and conflict-sensitive methods of teaching and learning that have been developed and practised by civil society organisations striving for access, quality and continuity of education in areas such as the Thai Myanmar border and Lebanon.
The CoMOOC supports teachers to:
- better understand the conflict-affected educational context;
- learn about theoretical frameworks that enable you to better understand your professional practice;
- adapt learning spaces to make education a transformative process;
- engage with your learners’ own experiences to help them respond to learning challenges;
- use digital platforms and technologies for creative problem solving; and
- improve the quality of teaching and learning in contexts of conflict and protracted crisis globally by sharing your inclusive pedagogical practices.
In this online space, teachers can share their practice and experiences with other participants and learn from theirs. The course promotes ideas about how to enhance inclusive pedagogies, teacher and children’s wellbeing and children’s holistic development, including academic and socio-emotional learning. It aims to contribute to quality education in challenging environments, making education a transformative process.
We will be holding a webinar at 9am UK time on 31st January 2025 to discuss our co-design approach with our collaborators. We will take you through the CoMOOC and invite you to join us. Following our webinar, educators will be on hand for 3 weeks to facilitate the course and provide feedback. Please join our webinar by registering here:
Register for our webinar at 9am on 31st January 2025
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