Navigate EdTech – Choosing Wisely for Learners MOOC (2025)
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About
"Navigate EdTech – Choosing Wisely for Learners" is a self-paced course designed for school leaders, teachers, and education decision-makers guiding technology purchases and integration.
If you're responsible for selecting the tools that will shape the digital future of your school or district, this course is for you. You'll explore essential strategies to align technology investments with educational goals, ensuring each decision supports improved learning outcomes. With modules focused on key skills—such as assessing institutional needs, setting measurable learning objectives, and evaluating EdTech usability—participants gain a practical, strategic approach to technology selection.
Objectives
In this course, you will:
- Identify key gaps and opportunities in your institution's current digital strategy and explore how EdTech tools can support long-term educational goals.
- Formulate measurable learning outcomes that align with your school's curriculum and outline a plan for evaluating the impact of EdTech on student learning.
- Assess the current digital infrastructure of your school and prioritise key areas for improvement, creating a basic plan for upgrading tools and resources within budget constraints.
- Evaluate the usability of select EdTech tools by conducting basic usability tests and providing recommendations based on initial feedback from teachers and students.
Date and registration
The course will open on 10 February 2025, with an estimated workload of 6 hours total. This course is self-paced, and you can progress at your own speed.
This course is open to all but would be predominantly valuable for professionals involved in educational technology purchasing decisions, including: school administrators responsible for selecting and acquiring educational technology tools, teachers who influence purchasing decisions and have a role in the integration of technology in classrooms, and decision-makers at district or state education levels tasked with overseeing the implementation of technology at multiple institutions.
Promotional Materials
Whether you are a course participant, a Ministry of Education, or a network organisation in the educational field: we welcome your support in spreading the message on this free online course.
You can do this in various ways, including:
- Use the suggested social media messages and visuals for the dissemination of the course and registration information on your social media channels, which you can download in the promotional pack below.
- Use the information provided in the promotional pack to promote the MOOC via any other dissemination channels you may have available to you (for example, newsletters, bulletins, digests, blog articles).
- Circulate information to relevant contacts: members of your network, organisations that you know are active on the topic and individual contacts.
To find all the promotional materials combined in a document please click on the button below. This promotional pack (in English) includes detailed information on how to promote the course in communications with your networks and audiences, as well as all visuals and suggested social media messages.
Info Sheet
Social media
Useful X (former Twitter) handles and hashtags:
- Course hashtag #NavigateEdTechMOOC
- Project handle/hashtag @eu_schoolnet, @EmpowerED
- Service hashtag #EUNAcademy
- Funder handles/hashtags @eu_schoolnet, @EmpowerED
Visuals
You can use the following visuals to promote the MOOC:
Behind the MOOC
The "Navigate EdTech – Choosing Wisely for Learners" MOOC was drafted by OAMK (Oulu University of Applied Science), a partner in the EmpowerED project, with the support of European Schoolnet (EUN).
EmpowerED, running from 2023 to 2025, aims to establish a pan-European network and platform for exchanges between European EdTech initiatives, support organisations, practitioners, and policymakers.
European Schoolnet (EUN) is the network of 30+ European Ministries of Education, based in Brussels. EUN aims to bring innovation in teaching and learning to its key stakeholders: Ministries of Education, schools, teachers, researchers, and industry partners.
Disclaimer
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them.