Wednesday 4 June 2014

An invitation: Free online course for teaching literacy to all students

Dyslexia International invites you to enroll on our Massive Open Online Course (‘MOOC’) on best practice in teaching literacy and supporting children with difficulties in reading and writing, and to spread the word! This new MOOC is based on the highly acclaimed original online course directed by Dr Vincent Goetry.

Designed in collaboration with the University of London Institute of Education, our new MOOC is currently in production with the London University Coursera team. Stanford University were the originators of the Coursera platform where over 7 million users currently access over 500 courses without charge.

The Coursera Consortium is making huge efforts to bring its courses to the Asian subcontinent and Africa in particular where there is a crying need better to train more teachers.

The MOOC is:
• free of charge 
 requires only focus and commitment across a six week period from the start date - early October 2014 (day to be announced).
• awards a Certificate by the University of London for a modest fee to those who complete the course with distinction and conform to Coursera requirements.

To fully understand the positive effect of Coursera MOOCs as online training tools, please see Professor Daphne Koller of Stanford in her introductory TED video: