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Educational Myths Debunked 101 (EMD 101)

✨ What you Need to Know to Identify, Understand and Challenge Questionable Beliefs about Teaching and Learning

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Our brand-new πŸ” Educational Myths Debunked 101 (EMD 101) Self-learning Course is here for you. 🌎

The Course and its Benefits at a Glance

🏁 Goal: Equip you Fast with What you Need to Know to Debunk Educational Myths.

πŸ“– 2 Modules:

  1. Basics of Educational Myths: Gain an overview of prevailing myths in higher education, their prevalence, causes, consequences and ways of dealing with them.
  2. Hands-on Debunking Challenge: Refute a chosen myth using newly developed debunking tool.

πŸ‘¨β€πŸŽ“ Flexible Learning:

  • πŸ—Ί Learn Anywhere
  • πŸ“… Start Anytime
  • ⏱ 8 Hours Total, Self-Paced
  • πŸ”€ Customizable Learning Path
  • πŸ›  Learning Application: Tailor the course content to your discipline. Learn best practices for debunking educational myths.
  • πŸ’¬ Language: English
  • πŸŽ“ Certification: Available (See requirements within the course)

🧭 Course Description

You’re a visual learner. We only use 10% of our brains. Best teaching is value neutral. There are multiple intelligences. Educational myths often appear in the form of phrases and platitudes. Although many of these questionable beliefs about educational phenomena lack empirical evidence, they are sometimes widespread, persist, and have somehow managed to become everyday knowledge (De Bruyckere et al., 2020; Sinatra & Jacobson, 2019). Although these myths sometimes blossom from a seed of a fact, they can be problematic, especially when policymakers, educators, or researchers unconsciously act on them, or even spread them.

Accordingly, in this course we focus on identifying, understanding, and challenging prevailing myths in higher education to foster our individual professionalization and to become a critically reflective teacher / reflective practitioner. As Pennycoock et al. (2015) would say: β€œOne benefit of gaining a better understanding of how we reject other’s bullshit is that it may teach us to be more cognizant of our own bullshit” (Pennycook et al., 2015, p. 26).

More Information: https://hdz.unisg.ch/de/weiterbildungskurse/evidenzbasiertes-gestalten-von-lehr-lernprozessen/educational-myths-debunked/

🎯Learning Objectives

You will …

  1. reflect on your own experiences with educational myths
  2. understand why these questionable beliefs can be problematic for various stakeholders including yourself
  3. know about prevailing educational myths in teaching and learning, their characteristics and causes
  4. learn about and develop strategies to deal with these seemingly never dying zombie concepts in a professional and evidence-informed manner

πŸ“š Course Content

  • Overview of prevailing myths in higher education
  • Empirical evidence about the prevalence of these myths, their causes, their consequences
  • How to deal with educational myths: Learning about and applying strategies to prevent, detect and intervene concerning educational myths
  • Various resources (e.g., videos, texts, podcasts) for digging deeper

πŸ”— Additional Information and Enrollment

Learn with us. We’re looking forward to welcoming you in Educational Myths Debunked 101 and at the University of St. Gallen.