GLOBAL EDUCATION ON-LINE TRAINING-COURSE

Global Education on-line training-course application process & website

Global Education on-line training-course background information

Global Education on-line training-course evaluation report of 2011 exercice & evaluation report of 2010 exercise & evaluation report of 2009 exercise

North-South Centre new pedagogical tool

Following the launching of the Global Education Guidelines – on-line version (re-edition 2010) available from North-South Centre (NSC) website and hard copy available upon request – the NSC Global Education programme offered its first Global Education on-line training course in 2009. Since three courses are offered annually, in Spring, Summer and Autumn.

This introductory online training course on global education (GE), with a particular focus on human rights (HR), targets practitioners in the field of education and development, teachers, social and youth workers, as well as policy-makers, civil servants and local and regional authorities.

This four-week long online learning course involves 10 hours of learning per week, which includes reading, discussion and response to interactive exercises. It is based on approximately 150 pages of educational material that include a diversity of interactive individual and group exercises with coached assignments, a glossary and a virtual library as well as a discussion forum. Such exercises aim at developing competences in the fields of team-building, mapping of GE/HR situation in participants’ countries, GE/HR strategies and GE/HR activity development.

The overall evaluation of the pilot course is very positive, with a high rating of satisfaction among the participants’ evaluation questionnaire sent after each course, considering participants’ diverse professional and geographical background.

Evaluation questionnaire assess the useful/missing aspects of the course; relevance of the exercises/pedagogical tools/time-frame; role of the coaches; improvement of the course; increased knowledge acquisition by participants and possible impact on professional background after the course

Participants professional background vary from Youth leaders, Educators, Civil Society activist, International organisations, Local Authorities and Ministries, from countries from all continents.

Call for applicants are advertised on NSC website and through NSC GE newsletter.

With this on-line training-course, the North-South Centre is reinforcing its capacity-building dimension within its Global Education programme and reinforcing its international networking strategy for more and better global education in Europe and beyond. It also responds to the Council of Europe strategy for Intercultural Dialogue.

“The tremendous amount of information I got from my co-participants was very
amazing. The fact that all our discussions were not based only on theoretical
evidence made the course very interesting. Some participants give evidence on the
practical reality of global education and human right education.” Course participant statement

“I am at the moment working on a project aimed at sensitizing youth of Cameroon on
the importance of education to personal development and community development.
The skills I acquired during the training are a great asset to me at this moment.”
Nfor Kingsley; Literacy For Life Association Cameroon (Liflac)

“I found most useful the very practical orientation of the course for teaching HRE skill
sets and a way of understand HR that is not based on distant inaccessible legal
instruments but on daily life, bringing spirituality and action together in real life
situations and with a reflective consideration of the past, present and future of our work and global/local context. What I mean to say is that it is very useful course for empowering people to become Human Rights Educators.
Adam Breasley

“This course is very important for a person that works in education sector and mainly
with minority group. I will share the content with some of my colleges, with young
students and teachers, with partners from other countries and will try to elaborate
strategies, plans and projects for action.”
Rodica Silvia Barlau