Effective Digital Pedagogy and 21st Century Learning Facilitation: A guide for teachers, lecturers, tutors and trainers

Effective Digital Pedagogy is aimed at offering practical digital skills & knowledge to teachers, lecturers, teaching professionals and trainers in facilitating beneficial digital learning. It is aimed at helping teachers and all educators in the purposeful application of new technologies to enhance teaching and learning using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

New 'Digital' Pedagogies have emerged which have shifted the focus of education away from teaching to learning, content delivery to interaction, face-to-face towards an online, interactive, constructionist pedagogy, which can be led by the student, as much as the teacher.

As an educator, you need to transform how you approach and think about teaching using available ICT for education tools in order to amplify learning and develop your own digital learning materials, improve your content access & interactivity while keeping your value in the education processes at the top level in this digital era.

This Effective Digital Pedagogy publication is intended to inspire you as a teacher to develop the mind-set, skills and knowledge to create digital hybrid courses rich with digital content for subjects you are already qualified in, as well as student engagement and mentoring suitable for the 21st century learner- with good pedagogical considerations.

It is based on a self-paced learning course (https://tinyurl.com/yc2etaa8) that Ultimate Multimedia Consult/ Yaaka Digital network offers with Makerere University Department of Journalism and Communication) to equip teachers/instructors for better provision of relevant content in text, images, video, audio, graphics, animations and or relevant virtual reality that will make teaching and learning of intended content interactive and interesting among the learners.

We hope you get convinced on the need for adoption of education technologies and new ways of teaching for better learning experiences and outcomes.

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