I recently took a course called understanding language which was co run by Southampton University, and British Council. This course explored how we learn first and second languages, approaches, andpedagogical approaches. Learning is broken up into units or weeks and is conducted through video lectures, audio interviews, debates, quizzes, and reflection. This course re runs regularly and is highly interactive. You learn from professors, practitioners, and course mates.
I am currently taking Education for all: Disability, Diversity, and Inclusion which explores barriers to learning faced by children and young people with disabilities. It covers learning, physical, and mental disabilities, and it looks at teaching, parenting, communities and how we can make them more inclusive without great expense. It uses case studies, video lectures, discussion, interviews, and published works by professors in the University of Cape town.
I am also taking teaching literacy through film: a course looking at how we can engage students of English with reading and writing through making and analyzing films. It is similar to the above two courses in learning approaches but aims to give teachers practical ideas to engage students with an often tricky area.
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