GLOBAL EDUCATION ON-LINE TRAINING-COURSE
a North-South Centre new pedagogical tool

Following the launching of the Global Education Guidelines – on-line version available from North-South Centre (NSC) website since January 2009 and hard copy released in July 2009 – the NSC Global Education programme offered its first Global Education on-line training course from July 20 to August 15.

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 8 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 was very positive, with a high rating of satisfaction among the participants’ evaluation questionnaire, considering participants’ diverse professional and geographical background.

Evaluation questionnaire assessed 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 varied from Youth leaders, Educators, Civil Society activist, International organisations, Local Authorities and Ministries, from Belarus, Egypt, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Somalia, Spain, Turkey, Zimbabwe.

Since, two other GE on-line training course were offered, built up upon the results of the evaluation of this pilot course, one in September and the second in October. Call for applicants were 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.

Global Education on-line training-course website

Global Education on-line training-course background information