Presentation made at the EMINENT Project Event 2018 on the topic 'How to assess, certify and recognize learning in open online teacher professional development?'

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HOW TO ASSESS, CERTIFY AND RECOGNIZE LEARNING
IN OPEN ONLINE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
ROUNDTABLE 3

2. ROUNDTABLE 3 – RECOGNISING LEARNING
 Introduction: Benjamin Hertz, Moderator
 Panelist contributions:
 Anna Laghigna – Teacher, Teacher Trainer, MOOC animator; Italy
 Javier Magdaleno Fuentetaja – Director del CFP Idiomas de la Consejería de Educación de Castilla y León; Spain
 Neuza Pedro – Scientific and Pedagogical Council for Continuous Teachers’ Training; Portugal
 Gabi Witthaus – University of Birmingham and the Art of eLearning; UK
 Anastasia Economou – Head of the Educational Technology Department, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Ministry of Education
and Culture; Cyprus
 Discussion

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“Successful [PD] programmes […] encourage the
development of teachers’ learning communities. A key
strategy involves finding ways for teachers to share their
expertise and experience systematically.”
Andreas Schleicher, OECD

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NEUZA PEDRO
PORTUGUESE SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL COUNCIL FOR CONTINUOUS
TEACHERS’ TRAINING

5. The Portuguese Scientific and Pedagogical Council for Continuous Teachers’
training is a unit of the Ministry of Education that is responsible for:
 the accreditation of the institutions that can provide continuous training
for teachers of the elementary and secondary public schools
 The approval of the training activities that are considered valid for
teachers’ professional progression (credits)
 the overall evaluation of the Portuguese system for teachers’ continuous
training.
[known as CCPFC]

6.  Teachers’ Initial Education
 Teachers’ Continuous
Education /CPD
HEI
HEI
Teachers’ Professional Assoc.
Teachers’ Training Centers (n=92)
Managed by CCPFC
(Portuguese Scientific and Pedagogical Council for
Continuous Teachers’Training)
Teacher Education Structure

7. Teachers’ Training Centers: organized in a network of 92 units that are spread out
through the country. They are located inside public schools and provide training
activities for teachers of the schools on their local area (addressing the training needs
locally identified).
All the accredited training activities developed by these institutions are analysed
and validated by the CCPFC.
 Teachers’ Continuous
Education /CPD
HEI
Teachers’ Professional Assoc.
Teachers’ Training Centers

8. What can be recognized as teachers’ continuous
education activities?
 Short-term training actions (< 6 hours)
 Teachers’ training courses (12 to 50 hours)
 HEI courses and training programes
 International Training activities
(partially) Online vs F2F
Certified and
accredited by
the CCPFC

9. What can be recognized as teachers’ continuous
education activities?
 Short-term training actions (< 6 hours)
 Teachers’ training courses (12 to 50 hours)
 HEI courses and training programes
 International Training activities
It envolves International projects’ meeting such as
e-twinning, Erasmus + KA1, etc.
as well as MOOCs
Certified and
accredited by
the CCPFC

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Teachers must present
. a certificate of the training action provided by the training institution
. the final grade obtained
. clear description of the training institutions’ nature
. information about the training team (name and qualification of the trainers)
. full version of the training program (contents and duration)
. date and the local where it took place
. the evaluation methods as well as the level of attendance of the trainee;
. other relevant elements, such as programs under which the action was taken, assessments
of the training entities by international or national scientific or pedagogical associations, etc.
For the recognition and certification of International Training activities
what are the requirements?

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Teachers must present
. a certificate of the training action provided by the training institution
. the final grade obtained
. clear description of the training institutions’ nature
. information about the training team (name and qualification of the trainers)
. full version of the training program (contents and duration)
. date and the local where it took place
. the evaluation methods as well as the level of attendance of the trainee;
. other relevant elements, such as programs under which the action was taken, assessments
of the training entities by international or national scientific or pedagogical associations, etc.
For the recognition and certification of International Training activities
what are the requirements?
It is analyzed and the accreditation can
go to
25 hours per week of training

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For the recognition and certification of International Training activities
what are the requirements?
Teachers must present
. a certificate of the training action provided by the training institution
. the final grade obtained
. clear description of the training institutions’ nature
. information about the training team (name and qualification of the trainers)
. full version of the training program (contents and duration)
. date and the local where it took place
. the evaluation methods as well as the level of attendance of the trainee;
. other relevant elements, such as programs under which the action was taken, assessments
of the training entities by international or national scientific or pedagogical associations, etc.
Some of the information that is required in the
regulatory documents about the accreditation of
International Training activities doesn’t fit the
MOOCs nature.

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Though there is a dissonance between the regulatory
documents and the new formats of teachers training that
came from the field of open online education, the number of
Portuguese teachers involved in MOOCS in the last 2 years
has been increasing …
Lets see some examples!

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54,6% 65,8%
Example 1: International MOOC
Co-Lab Collaborative Teaching and Learning

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Example 2. National MOOC
Laboratórios de Aprendizagem:
Cenários e Histórias de Aprendizagem
628
492
257
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
1
2
3
Registration and conclusion rates
40,9%
Registration
Developed a Learning Diary
Conclusion

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These examples represent a high involvement of Portuguese
teachers in MOOCs, not only in those internationally developed
but also in the ones nationally provided. Therefore, changed must
be done in the regulatory documents for the recognition and
accreditation of both type of courses.
However, change is never easy…

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