The Carnegie Foundation has collaborated with colleagues in the University of Michigan’s School of Education and Ross School of Business to develop a massive open online course that moves aspiring and practicing educational leaders to improve learning outcomes for all students. In this course, Leading Ambitious Teaching and Learning, the aim is to develop leaders’ capabilities to collaborate in thinking, reasoning, and strategizing about the meaning and pursuit of ambitious instruction in classrooms.
Leading Ambitious Teaching and Learning launched with more than 6,000 students from around the world, including the United States, India, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. It is the gateway to a new, five-course MicroMasters in Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement developed in collaboration with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
The MicroMasters will take learners even further, into:
- Research and case studies on innovative, large scale learning systems.
- Principles and practices of improvement science as advanced by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
- Formal methods for applying improvement science to different categories of educational problems.
Through this structure, the MicroMasters will support a diverse array of learners seeking the knowledge and capabilities needed to respond to new needs, opportunities, and pressures to advance more ambitious instruction in classrooms, at a large scale. More importantly, the MicroMasters will welcome this diverse array of learners into a new community of educational leaders committed to improving educational opportunities and outcomes for students in the US and around the world.
Registration is ongoing for Leading Ambitious Teaching and Learning and the entire five-course MicroMasters in Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement. The courses are free, but charge a fee for students seeking to earn a MicroMasters credential.
To find out more and register, see https://www.edx.org/course/leading-ambitious-teaching-learning-michiganx-microsoft-education-leaded501x
