Welcome! As a teacher, you already collect valuable data to support your students—from assessments to informal observations. However, data literacy in education often focuses solely on student performance metrics. This course broadens that perspective, helping you understand and use data beyond just grades.
Developing data literacy is crucial for two key reasons. First, data can provide insights into classroom dynamics, student well-being, and inclusion, helping you design more effective learning activities. Second, with the rise of data-driven educational technology—such as learning management systems, dashboards, and adaptive learning tools—it's essential to critically evaluate how these tools shape teaching and learning.
This course introduces key principles and practical strategies for using data effectively in education. You'll explore how teachers collect and interpret data to enhance student learning, personalize instruction, and foster inclusive classrooms. Additionally, you'll explore data practices in the classroom with a critical mind; you will reflect on the ethics and benefits of data, as well as data-driven digital tools.
By the end of the course, you'll be equipped to define, collect, and analyze data to make informed decisions in your teaching practice. The course is also valuable for school leaders, ICT administrators, and educational staff seeking to improve school-wide data practices. You'll engage with peers, share experiences, and work on an action plan (for teacher inquiry)—a structured approach to gathering and applying data to address a real challenge in your classroom or school.
You can follow the course at your own pace. We will open one module at the beginning of each week, and there is only a single deadline you need to pay attention to (the one for the final activity).
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After completing the MOOC, you will be able to
Identify and collect relevant data to reflect on your teaching practices and make informed decisions to improve them.
Evaluate inclusion-related challenges and risks in educational data use and apply strategies to promote fairness and student agency.
Critically reflect on the role of data and data-driven tools in your classroom.
Experiment with different data types and tools to determine which best supports your teaching practice.
Prerequisites
This course is for primary and secondary education teachers and teacher trainers who have an interest in learning analytics, formative assessment, and science and data literacy. School leaders are also encouraged to join the course, if they are interested in promoting school-wide data analytics practices and acquiring a critical approach when choosing EdTech tools for their schools or using monitoring and evaluation.
Modules
Module 1: Learning with and about data opens on 21/04/2025
Module 2: Using data meaningfully opens on 28/04/2025
Module 3: Using data responsibly opens on 05/05/2025
Module 4: Developing your data use action plan opens on 12/05/2025
Certification
In order to receive the certificate, the participation in the quizzes will count for 5%, and the action plan together with the peer reviews will count for 95%.
You will draft an action plan that defines a step-by-step process on how you can collect and use data to support you in addressing a concrete challenge you are facing in your classroom or school.
The overall passing grade is 95%.
The final deadline to complete all activities is 28 May 2025, 23:59 CEST.
Note to teachers from Galicia: Se es profesor/a de Galicia e, aparte do certificado da European Schoolnet Academy, queres recibir a certificación oficial de parte da Consellería de Educación, Ciencia, Universidades e Formación Profesional, inscríbete en FPROFE: https://www.edu.xunta.gal/fprofe/
Note to teachers from Emilia-Romagna: Per i docenti della regione Emilia-Romagna iscritti alla piattaforma regionale https://iscrizioni.istruzioneer.it/ è possibile ottenere, oltre all’attestato rilasciato da European Schoolnet Academy, anche l’attestato rilasciato dall’Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per l'Emilia-Romagna (Servizio Marconi) che attua un'azione di facilitazione ed accompagnamento a questa attività. Maggiori informazioni al link: https://bit.ly/EuroSmooc21.
Note to teachers from Ireland: It may be possible to count the completion of this course as part fulfilment of any discretionary CPD hours, subject to your school management's approval. Therefore, please enquire with your school management if your participation in this course can be formally recognised.
Course Staff
Antoine Selim Bilgin - Course Coordinator
Antoine Selim Bilgin is pedagogical and research manager at European Schoolnet (EUN). He worked for the policy experimentation Teach-UP and co-developed the digital formative assessment toolkit for the policy experimentation Assess@Learning. He coordinates the statistics and evaluation of EUN Academy courses and various EUN projects. He is a teacher trainer in assessment and data literacy. He is specialised in Psychology of Learning and Cognitive Science, with a master’s degree in research in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam and in Applied (Clinical) Psychology from Ege University.
Behind the course
This course is run thanks to Agile EDU, an EU-funded 3-year project that started in January 2023. Agile EDU aims to identify the key factors needed to develop and implement digital education ecosystems, which enable an inclusive and high-quality digital education, and to develop an expertise and community of knowledge exchange of these factors.
The project is coordinated by European Schoolnet and includes a mix of partners representing public authorities, local authorities, universities, and civil society: University College Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Oslo (Norway), Portuguese Ministry of Education (Portugal), Foundation Empieza por Educar (Spain), and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (Sweden). The French and Slovenian Ministries of Education are associated partners.
Disclaimer
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.