Testing Times in the Classroom

Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is for anyone with an interest in education, including teachers, students, and parents. This course will also be of interest to an international audience. No prior qualifications in education are required. You can use the hashtag #FLreimaginingeducation to talk about this course on social media.

• What education means in an era where assessment rules and where big data and key performance indicators are key.
• In what ways education is now routinely linked to economic progress.
• Whether the purpose of education has changed in the 21st century.
• What positive alternatives exist to challenge dominant instrumental thinking? How have these been enacted and how can we learn from them in our own educational thinking?
• Whether education can be considered as a business or corporate activity?
• Other visions of education including social justice.