GC21 E-Academy

Info

GC21 E-Academy - GIZ online academy for worldwide learning. www.gc21-eacademy.org www.twitter.com/gc21eacademy www.flickr.com/photos/gc21eacademy www.delicious.com/gc21eacademy www.youtube.com/user/eacademytv

Geschichte

Through its Global Campus 21 E-Academy GIZ in particular fosters the global dissemination and use of Innovative Communication Technologies (ICT) for further education. Specifically, the E-Academy offers:

• The Global Campus 21® as the learning and communication platform for International Cooperation in Germany. Already founded in 2000 the GC21 has more than 76,000 users and its learning platforms host around 1000 websites or portals and almost 1000 online courses.
• Capacity Development for E-Learning which enables individual and other institutional multipliers to use and distribute the Innovative Learning and Communication Technologies. But far beyond building such kind of ICT infrastructure, this program fosters communities of practice to influence national education and policies in a sustainable way by cooperating with local partner institution and networks such as the Asian E-Learning Network, the Latin American EDUC@L or the African Namibiam E-Learning Network.
• The certification tool Open ECBCheck which supports capacity development organisations to measure the success of their e-learning programs. It allows for continuous improvement though peer collaboration and benchlearning. ECBCheck has been developed through an innovative and participative process together with European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL).
• The GC21 E-Academy course portfolio which offers around 80 first-rate online courses that are tailored to the global needs of managers, decision-makers and young executives and that comprise courses of all relevant subject areas of Capacity Development ranging from Management & Leadership or Climate & Environmental Protection to Education & Gender or Peace & Human Rights. By offering these courses online, the E-Academy is able to address learners from culturally diverse backgrounds in an individual way and at reasonable costs.

To round up this product portfolio the E-Academy is constantly engaged in the development of new learning scenarios through the use of social media, m-learning or game-based learning.