The HANDSON Toolkit, a flavor of the MOOC

If you are a teacher trainer, a learning and teaching expert or a learning technologist – or, more generally, someone close to the usage of technology in education – and you want to help educators or others like you to facilitate the inclusion of ICT tools in education, the HANDSON toolkit is for you!

The HANDSON toolkit allows to run a reduced and face-to-face version of the HANDSON MOOC in a workshop format that requires much less infrastructure and time than the online course.

The HANDSON toolkit workshop is an immersive activity aimed at walking participants through the design process of an ICT-based learning activity under the guidance of one or ideally two facilitators. This rapid and iterative activity follows the approach of the Learning Design Studio and it is aimed at empowering educators as designers.

This project-based format of the workshop is an opportunity to touch on the pillars of learning design – empathy, iteration, rapid prototyping, evaluation and reflection – without going into the theory and methods behind this approach. The design process include the definition of the educational challenge, the design of the learning activity and its implementation, evaluation and refinement all with a focus on the students/end users and the context in which the learning activity is going to be implemented. It also leverages the expertise and experiences of peers to provide feedback and enhance the designed products. ICT tools being used depending on the context, facilitators provide a list to choose from.

The toolkit is available in Bulgarian, Catalan, English, French and Greek.

Do you want to know more about it?

Send us a message to: community@handsonict.eu