OpenClassrooms Makes Distance Learning Tools Available for Free to Educators and Students in Response to Coronavirus Crisis
Move from leading online school has already benefited more than 100,000 students across 1,000 schools
OpenClassrooms, a global education-to-employment platform, is making free digital tools available to all educators, students, apprentices, and trainees from higher education establishments, public or private, and professional training whose learning has been disrupted by the global coronavirus pandemic. Since official launch, 1,000 schools have requested access for a total of 100,000 students.
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OpenClassrooms has millions of students across 140 countries. Its pedagogical model blends top quality online coursework with a high touch one-on-one mentorship, project-based learning, career coaching, and a job guarantee.
To support all teachers and students whose learning has been disrupted amid the pandemic, OpenClassrooms is making licenses for its Spark distance learning product available for free. Spark allows educators and professional trainers to digitally monitor student progress and mastery of key educational objectives. Spark licenses are a proven value-add for teachers and professionals in education and training, enabling them to ensure pedagogical continuity as they shift to remote learning.
OpenClassrooms aims to make additional resources available to students, apprentices and trainees to support their learning over the coming months.
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“During these difficult times, OpenClassrooms would like to help make a difference and contribute to the efforts being made by governments worldwide to ensure the continuity of education. We are helping make sure that students, apprentices or trainees are not neglected despite abrupt closures of schools, universities, and training centers,” says Pierre Dubuc, co-founder and CEO of OpenClassrooms.
In addition to the free Spark learning licenses, these are the other resources available to e-learners and educators through OpenClassrooms:
- A free catalogue of more than 600 courses in relevant professional skills entirely online, built to promote the progressive acquisition of knowledge on many subjects.
- A series of control tools, which allow precise and continuous monitoring of skills acquisition; these tools are normally accessible through a license.
- Teacher training for OpenClassrooms monitoring and control tools, including a series of online seminars.
Many of these courses cover digital skills in web development, data, management and UX design. Soft skills such as working efficiently in teams, working autonomously, and communication with digital tools and many more are also a big part of the OpenClassrooms catalogue.
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