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In the current educational landscape, traditional classrooms are no longer the exclusive venues for purposeful and engaging learning. Nowadays, learning occurs in diverse settings, encompassing physically distanced classrooms, online learning spaces, hybrid environments accommodating both on-site and remote students, learning videos, and the flipped education model. This shift underscores the evolving nature of education, transcending the confines of conventional classroom instruction and textbooks. How much do you feel at ease in teaching in these new settings? This course will provide effective training on how to create engaging activities for students in all of these learning contexts. By its end, you will know how to create personalized, engaging activities to boost your students’ participation, reflection, and collaboration, no matter where their learning happens. As a participant, you will learn to efficiently use digital technologies to promote student agency and participation in both face-to-face and remote learning (e.g., by creating simple games to increase student motivation). Together, we will discuss how to encourage students to be autonomous and become creators of new content. You will also acquire a practical understanding of how to provide students with a choice so that they can set their own goals, and take responsibility for all the relevant segments of their learning. Finally, participants will analyze effective techniques for making assessment an integral part of learning, and explore new strategies to let students demonstrate a deeper level of understanding....read more.