Equitable access to teacher education in Nepal Producing a new university programme in the field of teacher education in Nepal is not an easy task, particularly when some of the teachers you are trying to reach live in work in the hills and valleys across the Himalayas. Nepal Open University has begun such a…
Continue readingVideoblog 2 from the 21st Century Skills Nepal project
Collaborative communication and participatory decision-making leads to high quality co-creation development in a new masters degree course in digital pedagogy and 21st century skills in Nepal. This video was published in September. More information Project website
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The 21st Century Skills Nepal – Video blog
In spite of not being able to travel, work has progressed in Nepal and Finland to get the project started. Co-creation teams involving experts from Tribuhvan University and Nepal Open University from Kathmandu, Nepal, as well as JAMK and HAMK Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland have been collaborating remotely to organize online workshops to…
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21st Century Skills in Action – To teach something you have to be able to do it yourself
Creating a master’s degree programme that includes 21st century skills that qualifies successful graduates to work as a teacher is a complex matter. We first have to define what we mean by 21st century skills and then decide how to produce concrete learning tasks so that the ideas can be integrated into the educational programme…
Continue readingHigher Education Institution development projects in Ethiopia, Nepal and Mozambique have kicked off
The Higher Education Institutions Institutional Cooperation Instrument (HEI ICI) Period 2020-2024 started on 1st of September. The Programme is funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and administered by the Finnish National Agency for Education. The Programme supports cooperation projects between higher education institutions in Finland and the developing world. In the current…
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