No doubt about it! COVID-19 has revolutionised how educators all over the world teach their lessons. The familiarity of being in a classroom was replaced with Emergency Remote Teaching. But what can schools and teachers do to successfully incorporate online learning in the future, and how can they do it? Find out more in this tutorial!

Digital competence is essential for learning, work and active participation in society. For school education, as important as understanding the competence itself is knowing how to help develop it. Find out more in this tutorial!

Traditional classrooms with their blackboard, the teacher standing in front of it and the desks laid out in rows date back to medieval monasteries. But as society grows ever more technology-rich and the focus shifts to key competences and student-centric pedagogy, so the learning space needs to catch up. In this tutorial, you will learn that greener is better, classrooms don’t always need walls, and more.

There is so much information at our fingertips, offline and especially online, that a truly motivated learner may not even need a teacher, according to Feliz-Murias. Games have features that today’s students – so-called “digital natives” – are used to from online tools: learning by doing, customisation, immediate feedback, active discovery, and new kinds of comprehension. Also, as important as teaching content is motivation – a love of learning. Try our six levels of game-based learning to reflect on your lesson design. Can you complete all of them?

The waters of copyright law are murky. A monkey snapping selfies with a stolen camera was argued to own the copyright to them; and a tattoo technically belongs to the artist, not the person wearing it. But you’re a teacher! What does all this have to do with you? It matters if you have uploaded your lesson plan online, or added someone else’s pictures to your presentation slides, or used pop music in a film you made with your students. In this tutorial, we look at some quick tips to uphold copyright, and some reasons to care about it.

Data protection is essential: it means privacy and respect, and freedom from manipulation. Nonetheless, some anxiety has followed the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Do schools need to adjust their record-keeping? Which information is considered delicate? Can you still carry school data on a portable device? This tutorial will put you in a better position to safeguard your students’ data – and understand what happens with your own.

Of the 30 countries that were surveyed in a 2016 study on this topic, 80% described STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) as currently a priority area at national level. At the same time, EU countries are still labouring to decrease the number of low achievers in science. Teaching these subjects is a great responsibility for a teacher – and a great challenge, too. How can you motivate your students? How can you instil in them all the enthusiasm, all the wonder that the sciences are due? Here are four steps to help transform science lessons.

Have you made ongoing links with other schools or teachers to share pedagogical approaches? Or participated in an eTwinning project that has turned into a long-lasting partnership? Networks have been gaining traction of late: for one thing, education systems have become more complex, and require complex interactions among their actors; for another, teachers wish to stave off professional isolation. But when and how should one establish a network? This tutorial is targeted at heads of schools, policymakers, and teachers who aspire to more connectivity.

The EU now has 500 million citizens, 28 Member States, three alphabets and 24 official languages, some of them with worldwide coverage. The European Commission is working with national governments to meet an ambitious goal: enabling citizens to communicate in two languages other than their mother tongue. Read more about this key competence in the following tutorial!

Entrepreneurship may be mistakenly related only to economic activities and business creation, however, it is much more than that. ‘Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship’ is one of the eight key competences for lifelong learning defined by the European Union. It is refers to an individual's ability to identify and seize opportunities, turn ideas into action, and to plan and manage processes to achieve objectives. In this tutorial you can find out more about this key competence and how teachers can foster it in their students.