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Do you create or are you interested in creating online courses for Teacher Professional Development (TPD)?
This rescheduled webinar will explore evidence based principles for designing and facilitating courses that motivate and retain participants. Come along to hear from a group of experienced online learning designers speaking candidly about their learning journeys and have the opportunity to ask questions.
Depending on numbers on the day, there may also be an opportunity for breakout rooms and participant discussion around the focal topics.
Agenda
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05PM
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05PM
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30PM
Presentations by speakers
Meaghan Brugha - Findings from the 'Educational Dialogue Course Series' a global MOOC series
Dr Farah Ahmed - Online TPD courses to renew dialogic education in Muslim contexts
Dr Kristeen Chachage - Using online TPD modules to facilitate and augment in-person professional learning.
5
30PM
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10PM
Discussion and Q and A session
Mediated discussion led by Dr Kevin Martin and including all presenters. Q and A session with questions from online audience.
Depending on numbers on the day, there may also be an opportunity for breakout rooms and participant discussion around the focal topics.
Areas discussed will include:
a. motivation / retention
b. dialogic activities
c. impact
d. sustainability
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10PM
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6
15PM
Speakers
Meaghan Brugha
PhD candidate and Tech Industry veteran at Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
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Kristeen Chachage
Faculty of Practice, Concordia University, Saint Paul and TPD Consultant with EdTech Hub at EdTech Hub
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Dr Farah Ahmed is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She is a steering group member of the Cambridge Educational Dialogue Research group, member of the T-SEDA Collective since 2015 and has been involved in the development, trial and translation of the toolkit and inquiry approach. Farah convenes the Cambridge Dialogues: Rethinking Islamic Education academic network. She is also the founding Director of the Islamic Educator Learning Community online professional development and research-exchange platform. She has published widely on Islamic philosophies of education, pedagogies and practices that draw on dialogic Islamic education theory, and how these might be integrated into contemporary schooling systems.
Meaghan
Brugha
PhD candidate and Tech Industry veteran at Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/meaghan-brugha-810b974bMeaghan Brugha will present and discuss findings from the 'Educational Dialogue Course Series', which she developed and trialled as part of her PhD research. These courses were created and offered as free mechanical MOOCs for teachers and teacher educators in schools and tertiary institutions globally. They supported participants in learning: (1) the foundational theories behind educational dialogue; (2) conducting a reflective inquiry into their practice regarding their use of educational dialogue; and (3) supporting their colleagues in developing their dialogic approaches.
Kristeen
Chachage
Faculty of Practice, Concordia University, Saint Paul and TPD Consultant with EdTech Hub at EdTech Hub
https://edtechhub.org/Dr. Chachage is a faculty member and advisor in the Doctorate of Education program at Concordia University, Saint Paul and a TPD specialist working with EdTech Hub. Since 2021, the EdTech Hub has been providing technical assistance and partnering with the Tanzania Institute of Education (TIE) and Aga Khan University to research a tech-supported, school-based TPD model being implemented by the government of Tanzania. In this presentation, she will share practical lessons learnt from the development of TIE’s online modules for school-based Communities of Learning.
Kevin Martin
Managing Director of DEFI @ Hughes Hall
Dr Kevin Martin is acting as host and moderator for this webinar
Sponsors and Partners
Organisers
Islamic Educator Learning Community (IELC)
IELC is a new learning community of Islamic educators (anyone working in or teaching Muslim learners aged from 3-18 years). IELC is an online platform hosted by Camtree and is designed to facilitate exchange between Islamic scholarship, educational research and Islamic educational settings.
IELC supports teachers and educators to engage in reflective practice and conduct their own classroom research inquiries, in order to improve learning. We draw on the wider content of Camtree and also provide our own context specific platform and content.
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Cambridge Educational Dialogue Research Group
Cambridge Educational Dialogue Research Group (CEDiR) is based in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. CEDiR members explore educational dialogue through four main strands: 1) classroom interaction, 2) dialogue in and around digital tools, 3) professional dialogue, and 4) dialogue in different religious and cultural traditions . For further information or to join their mailing list go to https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/cedir/
https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/cedir/