The Digital Action Plan in Education and Higher Education (PAN) in Quebec, planned from 2018 to 2023, will soon be completed. It consisted of a series of measures aimed at “creating an environment conducive to the use of digital technology for educational purposes, using it as a vector of added value by enabling and supporting an improvement and diversification of teaching and learning practices . “Developing digital skills.”
One of the measures announced by the Quebec Ministry of Education (MEQ) was aimed at the development of Massively Open Online Courses (CLOMs, also known by the English acronym MOOC) to meet the great need for training.
Maxime Roger, who coordinated the implementation of this PAN measure at the MEQ, explains to us: “The courses launched as part of the PAN are aimed at a broad audience. Our approach, long before the pandemic, was aimed at providing tools to the student community and network staff, and even more broadly to all citizens interested in digital literacy, the teaching profession, artificial intelligence and distance learning. A call for proposals was launched in 2019; Educational institutions were then asked about cooperation projects around these four topics. »
Five courses were started between September 2021 and September 2022. You can find them collected on this page. They are open to educational personnel, including teachers, school administrators, students and other professionals, as well as anyone interested in the topic, as they are offered free of charge and their resources are completely royalty-free. Each training course takes approximately 15 to 45 hours to complete.
University of Montreal
This CLOM consists of seven modules and allows you to learn more about digital competence as presented in the Digital Competence Reference Framework. In addition, it offers a variety of learning activities, videos and tests.
For whom? Citizens, student community as well as teaching and professional staff
University of Montreal
As a result of a CEGEP university consultancy, this CLOM focuses on machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence. Thanks to its pedagogy focused on active learning, continuous feedback and personalization of the learner's journey, it aims to discover the fundamentals of machine learning and its functions and how it can be used to solve problems in various fields such as astrophysics, Linguistics, psychoeducation, etc. can contribute to e-commerce.
For whom? Citizens, student community as well as teaching and professional staff
University of Montreal
This six-module CLOM is intended to promote and raise awareness of the teaching profession. These modules are organized around the new professional competency framework for teachers and are based on the 13 competencies essential for teaching practice. These skills refer to the knowledge, skills and attitudes that underlie teaching work and demonstrate the complex, dynamic and positive nature of teaching work. In particular, they explain the tasks of a teacher and the reason why he performs them, the knowledge on which he is based and the values that guide him towards students, but also towards parents and other pedagogical actors. This CLOM will therefore help to clarify and illustrate these different concepts and better understand current teaching work.
For whom? Citizens, student community and professional staff
University of Montreal
Designing and overseeing the delivery of distance learning courses are essential skills for increasing academic success and supporting teaching innovation. This CLOM includes asynchronous and synchronous sessions that allow you to interact with colleagues and experts at all educational levels. This theoretical and practical course is based on current research and incorporates various pedagogical innovations.
For whom? Managers as well as teaching and specialist staff
Laval University
Divided into four courses, this CLOM offers the discovery and acquisition of the keys to the success of a total or partial distance education. Each course is divided into three levels, ranging from discovery to advanced, giving everyone the opportunity to find answers to the questions they ask.
For whom? Student community, managers as well as teaching and professional staff
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