UCL Wins At The 2024 Global MOOC And Online Education Alliance (GMA) Awards
FutureLearn partner, University College London (UCL), has won an award at the 2024 Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance (GMA) Awards, for their course, Blended and Online Learning Design (BOLD). The award presentation was held during the 2024 Global MOOC and Online Education Conference at Queen Mary University of London where leaders from universities in the UK and China were in attendance.
Held annually, The GMA Awards celebrates excellence in online course design and technology-enhanced education in STEM subjects and honours outstanding contributions to the field. The award showcases educator work on a global scale, and helps build a community that further accelerates the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4, ‘to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’.
The award-winning three-week online course was judged against a criteria that evaluated: Inclusive and Equitable Education, Lifelong Learning and Development, Quality Teaching and Learning and Technological or Digital Innovation.
Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technology, and Eileen Kennedy, Professorial Research Fellow, in the UCL Knowledge Lab received the award for their Co-MOOC hosted on the FutureLearn platform.
The Co-MOOC, which is a new style of ‘co-designed, massive open online collaboration’, works with teachers from all sectors, from primary to higher education, to co-design the course. Thousands of teachers worldwide collaborated by engaging with the BOLD Co-MOOC during the COVID-19 lockdown. They exchanged ideas about Blended and Online Learning Design to help them support their students during the pandemic.
Eileen Kennedy said “we’re aiming to emulate the knowledge building processes of science and scholarship, enabling teaching professionals to exchange, test and develop their innovative digital pedagogies. We’re very excited that this is being recognised”.
As Diana Laurillard said: “This was made possible by the FutureLearn platform enabling the global reach and social learning among professionals, and by the UCL Learning Designer tool embedded in the course, supporting and curating the innovative digital learning designs the teachers were able to develop”.
To find out more about UCL’s award-winning course or to join, click here.
