
UNESCO and Blackboard launch initiative to train teachers
UNESCO, together with Blackboard, on Monday, launched the “Blackboard Academy Caribbean Sub-regional Pilot Project 2020,” a workshop designed to provide professional development for teachers in the English and Dutch Caribbean to use blended learning and online strategies competently in distance and online education in the COVID-19 era and beyond.
The aim of this initiative is to train a cohort of 40 master facilitators in the Caribbean sub-region as experts in blended and online learning strategies to train 200 teachers, 10 per country, with the skills to apply innovative online and blended teaching methods or adaptive pedagogies in the new teaching and learning situation in the time of COVID-19.