“Introducing the OER Project – The Big History Project plus more”

Passionate about teaching history? Awesome. OER Project is a family of free, online history courses for upper primary and high school classrooms everywhere. The Big History Project the original OER course is better than ever and now there are a family of courses that adopt the same approach that BHP teachers love—engaging and rigorous content, and scaffolded learning tools. Ideal Easily adaptable to you and your students’ needs whether you are teaching remotely or face to face OER courses will engage and extend your students while supporting you as a teacher.

This session contains an overview of the following plus a walkthrough of site content.

  • OER – New home
  • Big History Project
  • Skill development
  • Content and Features
  • Special feature – Score
  • Big History and your context
  • Teacher Community – Join the global teaching community.
  • PL – Teaching Big History
  • New offerings WHP, Project X and Project Score
  • # Plus, live walk through of BHP site signup and navigation
  • Support: sign up and EOI for presentation 2

 

Level:

Humanities/History/STEAM/Science

Upper Primary-secondary (Year 6-10)

Links :

Webinar Fees:

Member: Complimentary

Non Member: IDR 50k

Register 5 participants and get +1 free registration

 

Hayden Brown is the former Extension program coordinator at Broome Senior High School. Hayden balanced overseeing academic extension programs in Year 7 and 8, as well as teaching Humanities, Upper School Modern History and coordinating academic opportunities for students throughout the school. Hayden was approached by Gates Ventures 2016 to become a lead teacher and design partner of The Big History Project. Over the last 6 years Hayden has supported teachers globally to implement The Big History Project in their own schools as well as taking part in pilot programs and development projects with Gates Ventures, to improve and expand the Big History Project course.

In 2020 Hayden moved to Halls Head College in the Peel region of Western Australia, where he is working as part of the academic extension team to combine virtual reality film making, Aboriginal perspectives and Big History skills with the WA curriculum requirements of the teaching program.  Although the current global situation has forced the cancelation of many in person Speaking engagements Hayden has virtually presented on digital platforms for teachers in Singapore, Indonesia, South Africa and the USA.

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Event Details
  • Start Date
    March 1, 2021 4:00 pm
  • End Date
    March 1, 2021 5:30 pm
  • Status
    Expired
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