The next months offer interesting e-learning opportunities, including the new Distance Sessions that will be offered to participants of the AFS Intercultural Link Learning Program. These Distance Sessions represent an opportunity for AFSers already enrolled in a level of the program to continue developing and improving our intercultural learning from their home countries. But if you are not a participant, there are also other ways in which you can experience e-learning!
A specific e-learning opportunity for interculturalists is this webinar offered by Young SIETAR on social media: Interculturalist: From Social Media Users to Marketers. This webinar will be a synchronous session offered on 22 April, from 7 to 8 pm BST. There are also other interesting e-learning opportunities available on Coursera. We have picked some sessions in the area of education that might be appealing to you, but we recommend that you explore the site to see what matches your preferences:
- Inspiring Leadership throuch Emotional Intelligence
- Aboriginal Worldviews and Education
- Tecnologías de información y comunicación en educación (in Spanish)
Coursera is one of several educational endeavors to make higher education accessible through the web. Higher education institutions are also trying to make their courses more accessible through initiative like edX or Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT OpenCourseWare. The purpose of these educational sites is to make more university-level content accessible and free of charge for people around the world.
We encourage you to sign up for at least one of these events and tell us what you think about the potential of e-learning in your educational experience and in learning from any corner of the world.
