BEFORE AFTER     The COVID-19 pandemic has affected educational systems worldwide, leading to the temporary closure of educational institutions, from pre-school to higher education, in an attempt to reduce the spread of the virus. Its impact has been far-reaching with many people doubting if we will ever return to ‘normal’. The publication by Steelcase (2021)...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools and teachers to rethink the use of learning spaces. Innovative educators from three Portuguese schools reflect this matter and will share good practices in this upcoming webinar. Speaker panel:  José Miguel Sousa, Centro de Formação EduFor (Mangualde) - presentation Marisa Correia, Escola Superior de Educação, IPS...

[Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash] Novigado invited different stakeholders to respond to the two questions: How should active learning look like in a school? What would you recommend to teachers? Fernando Franco, former teacher and school leader, and currently a member of the Directorate-General for Education in Portugal, shares his perspective based on the Portuguese experience. ...

Novigado invited different stakeholders to respond to the two questions: How should active learning look like in a school? What would you recommend to teachers? Here, Catherine Becchetti-Bizot, the mediator for national education and higher education in France, shares her perspective on how active learning should look like in schools. The number one rule for implementing active learning...

Background  I teach in a medium-size upper secondary school in western France. I'm a math teacher but I've also been teaching in European classes for more than ten years now. One specificity of them is the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) method that focuses on learning by doing especially in project-based learning scenarios. However and until recently, when it came...

Eager to learn more about active learning and innovative learning environments? The third webinar took place on 17 September on the topic of "Co-designing experiences and artifacts with teachers and students in a transdisciplinary world". Read more about the webinar here: In 1969, Herbert Simon defined the term "design" by saying that whenever we intentionally shape our world to adapt...

  The second Novigado webinar took place on 18 June 2020 and focussed on the topic of designing post-COVID learning spaces. In the past months, the COVID pandemic forced school closures in most European countries and is raising now questions on how to carry out the school opening in a safe way for all pupils and staff when the new school year starts. This compels us to rethink how...

Changes in education are usually very slow. That is the feeling of most people who work in this field. Is it really true? Nowadays, due to the pandemic, this can be viewed from another angle. Life proved us wrong. The pandemic made changes in schools overnight. In one day we had students in classrooms everywhere and the next day we had them learning online. With some mistakes on the way,...

  When put into practice successfully, innovative teaching methods and flexible learning spaces, enhanced by the use of relevant technology, can significantly contribute to achieving active learning among students. This is where the Novigado project steps in, aiming to support teachers as they shift towards student-centred teaching methods in innovative environments.   ...

What was this webinar about? Schools and teachers are in a key transition phase where the increasingly technology-rich learning environments and student-centric pedagogy are gaining ground in current practices. The focus of teaching is shifting from content to developing key competences. Schools and teachers are also directly impacted by developments about modernising or transforming...