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Learning Innovation Design Series
Learning Innovation Design Series
The online course series to support teaching-learning innovation

Course description
What does it mean to innovate teaching? Where to start when innovating your teaching? How can you support your students' learning? How can you help them develop key skills for the future? Through this series of MOOCs dedicated to teachers and trainers, you will discover new methods for lesson planning and practical tools to try out in the classroom to engage your students and make learning more effective.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Prerequisites
The MOOCs have been organized according to thematic homogeneity: their use does not require a sequential order. Some courses may list specific prerequisites in their respective course pages.
Activities
Each course in the series includes different activities and learning materials. Please refer to the information sheets of each course for more details.
Section outline
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The designing culture fertilizing Learning Innovation
Duration: 6 weeks
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A visual method for designing effective in-person and online learning experiences
Duration: 3 weeks
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To flip or not to flip? That is the question! Let’s walk together this path: how does flipped learning works? How to adopt this approach in teaching day life?
Duration: 5 weeks
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Open Educational Resources are the result of a different approach to education: the focus is on sharing, improving and reusing educational materials created by people (not only super-experts) who are willing to let knowledge spread and be used by anyone
Duration: 5 weeks
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Students and teachers: their relationship gravitates around learning. Look at reality from different perspectives, and fit learning objectives into each scenario to create an engaging and driven learning experience. These are the basis of active learning
Duration: 5 weeks
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Soft skills are crucial competencies to be developed by students to access the labour market. The integration of active learning methods in teaching practices can support curriculum innovation and improve the learning experience of university students in particular while learning disciplinary subjects
Duration: 7 weeks
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Are you curious about what green soft skills are and why they are at the heart of the transition to a sustainable future? Would you like to empower your students with these essential skills?
Duration: 6 weeks
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The course explains how to accompany students during their learning path with assessment activities. The aim of these activities is to give frequent feedback, so that it can be easier for students to keep on track and arrive at the final assessment properly prepared
Duration: 5 weeks
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Architecture and planning education with marginalised communities
Duration: 4 weeks
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Assessment
Each course has specific methods for passing. Check the individual course pages to learn the criteria used.
Certificate
By enrolling in the series, you will be automatically enrolled in all the courses it includes. You’ll find both the series and its individual courses in your dashboard.
Once you complete all the courses, the series will also appear as completed on your dashboard. After completing each course, you can request the related Open Badge, while there is no Open Badge for the series as a whole.
Information about fees and access to materials
All courses in the series are offered online and are free of charge.
Course faculty
To find out who the instructors are for each course, please consult the “Faculty” tab on the respective course pages.
Contact details
If you have any enquiries about the courses or if you need technical assistance please contact pok@polimi.it. For further information, see FAQ page.