make it open schooling MOOC

About

Would you like to learn more about Open Schooling and the Maker Movement’s ideas and pedagogy? Join this online course and learn how the Open Schooling approach to teaching and learning can be integrated into your teaching – particularly science education – and be coupled with Maker pedagogy. 

The course will also provide tips on how to engage external experts and local stakeholders in your Open Schooling educational activity. 

Objectives

The Make it Open Schooling MOOC will:

  • introduce participants to Open Schooling (OS), Maker pedagogy, as well as Inquiry-Based Learning and help them understand how they can be integrated in their educational activities;
  • empower teachers with a new methodology and support its use via the creation of an engaged community; 
  • introduce the Navigator as well as the other ready to use materials created within Make it Open and guide participants to their use;
  • provide a detailed guide (and concrete examples) for the creation of an Open Schooling LS and/or education activity;
  • promote the Make it Open (MiO) project and its outcomes (the Navigator, the Hubs, etc.) as tools to empower teachers and educators; and
  • create a network of teachers/educators familiar with and enthusiastic about Open Schooling.

Date and registration

The course will be held online from 9 January to 15 February 2023, with an estimated workload of 20 hours.

If you are a primary or secondary school teacher, Science teacher, curriculum designer or non-formal education professional who wants to put schools at the heart of the local community, click the button below to register.

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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.

To make communication as easy as possible, you can find materials to copy/paste on this page: visuals in various formats at the bottom of this page and social-media messages in the sidebar on the right.

If you prefer to receive all materials combined in a compressed folder, please click on the button below. This promotional pack (in English) includes a document with 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.

Promotional pack

 

Behind the MOOC

Make it Open combines the philosophy of the maker movement with the inquiry-based approach of citizen science and the concept of Open Schooling to make science learning more accessible and transform schools from traditional educational institutions into community partnerships.

Scientix, the community for science education in Europe, promotes and supports a Europe-wide collaboration among STEM teachers, education researchers, policymakers and other STEM education professionals.


Disclaimer

Make it Open has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 872106. The work presented in this document also has received funding under grant agreement N. 101000063 (Scientix 4), coordinated by European Schoolnet (EUN). The content of the document is the sole responsibility of the authors and it does not represent the opinion of the European Commission (EC), and the EC is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained.

 

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Social media

Join us in the "Make it Open Schooling" Facebook group or share your thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag #OpenSchooling.

 

Below are a few select social media messages you can copy directly from this page to use in your channels. Or you can click the button to download a Word document with many more messages, which include colorful emojis!

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Facebook

  • Make it Open and @ScientixEU have a new MOOC! “Make it Open Schooling” will introduce participants to Open Schooling as well as Maker Movement’s ideas and pedagogy. Discover how the #OpenSchooling approach to teaching and learning can be integrated in educational activities – particularly #scienceeducation – and be coupled with Maker pedagogy. Register for the MOOC and enhance your lessons: bit.ly/MiO-MOOC
  • The new Make it Open and @ScientixEU "Make it Open Schooling" MOOC is out! It will open doors for you to engage external experts and local stake holders with your #OpenSchooling educational activity. Register for this new online course and enhance your lessons: bit.ly/MiO-MOOC

Twitter

  • Walk into the classroom and open the window to a greater education! In the new MOOC "Make it Open Schooling" you will learn about #OpenSchooling (OS), Maker pedagogy, as well as Inquiry-Based Learning, and understand how they can be integrated in your educational activities. Be one of the first to register here: bit.ly/MiO-MOOC
  • Are you an educator who wants to start introducing #OpenSchooling as well as Maker Movement’s ideas and pedagogy in your school? Join the new MOOC "Make it Open Schooling" and create learning scenarios that can be put into practice immediately: bit.ly/MiO-MOOC

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Make it Open and #Scientix have a new MOOC!

“Make it Open Schooling” will introduce participants to #OpenSchooling as well as Maker Movement’s ideas and pedagogy

Discover how the Open Schooling approach to #teaching and #learning can be integrated in educational activities – particularly #scienceeducation – and be coupled with Maker pedagogy

Dates: 9th January – 15th February.

Register for the MOOC and enhance your lessons: https://bit.ly/MiO-MOOC