European Schoolnet Academy

Free online professional development courses for teachers in English, French, Italian and other European languages.

The European Schoolnet Academy was launched in 2014 in response to the need to scale up professional development opportunities for teachers, so as to help them with the growing number of challenges they face in the classroom. The European Schoolnet Academy therefore primarily offers massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are entirely free of charge and open for anyone to join, with no limit to the number of participants.

This focus on openness, and the pedagogical approach that goes alongside it, is based on three premises:

1. The need to cost-effectively scale professional development offers to larger numbers of teachers, so as to give more teachers the opportunity to access and benefit from these.
2. The conviction that teachers need to be self-reflective practitioners, willing to interact with peers and with a high level of self-efficacy.
3. The fact that successful professional development encourages the development of learning communities where teachers share their expertise, according to research results.