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Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

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Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

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Latest Courses

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Sustainable food systems: An introduction

September 2021
1 h 25 m
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Sustainable food systems: Operationalizing the approach

September 2021
1 h 20 m
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Sustainable food systems: Concept and framework

September 2021
1 h 10 m
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Forest and Water Nexus – Introduction

August 2021
2 h
NEW

Small and Medium Enterprises and Nutrition – making the business case

July 2021
2 h
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Introduction to the Farmer Field School Approach

July 2021
1 h
NEW

Small-scale agricultural mechanization hire services as a business enterprise

June 2021
1 h
NEW

Local area and market assessment

June 2021
20 m
NEW

Managing a hire service as a business

June 2021
1 h 15 m
NEW

Selection, assessment and purchase of power sources and implements

June 2021
1 h 25 m
NEW

Rules of the road at sea for small-scale fishers

June 2021
2 h
NEW

Introduction to forest and landscape restoration

May 2021
45 m
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Monitoring forest and landscape restoration

April 2021
45 m
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Sustainable financing of Forest and Landscape Restoration

March 2021
2 h 15 m
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A guide to developing a resilient watershed management plan

December 2020
2 h
NEW

Monitoring and preventing ciguatera poisoning

December 2020
2 h 30 m
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The national greenhouse gas inventory (NGHGI) for land use

December 2020
15 h
NEW

Using FAO methodology to compute damage and loss

December 2020
2 h
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International Technical Webinars

Migration and Youth in Rural Areas

Wednesday 29 September 2021, 14:30 - 16:00 Europe/Rome
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24-hour Global Marathon for Sustainability - Food for Earth

To celebrate United Nations International Mother Earth Day

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E-learning methodologies and good practices

A guide for designing and delivering e-learning solutions from the FAO elearning Academy

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Achievements for 2020

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

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FAO elearning Academy

Major achievements 2019

Alignment with and contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals Framework, Agenda 2030

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Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

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FUTURE FOOD INSTITUTE AND FAO ELEARNING ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL BOOT CAMPS FOR ‘CLIMATE SHAPERS’

Are you interested in an innovative learning opportunity?
Are you interested in becoming a:
'change maker’? 
‘climate shaper’?
‘future leader’?
empowered to revolutionize the food ecosystem, in full respect of humanity and our planet?

Try the Future Food Institute and FAO elearning Academy International Boot Camps to acquire the competencies of a ‘Climate Shaper’: key professional figure in the circular and sustainable food value chains.

Curious to know more? Have a look at the 2021 International Boot Camps offerings!

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What we do

Self-paced courses

The FAO elearning Academy offers over 350 multilingual self-paced e-learning courses, accessible free of charge online, and also in downloadable format. The FAO elearning courses allow you to learn about a subject based on your individual needs and interests, and the format allows you to study at your own pace, anywhere and at any time.

Our design approach is learner-centred, collaborative, multiplatform and multilingual. Course design starts with a detailed target audience analysis, is based on realistic and measurable learning objectives, includes knowledge assessment tests. A final evaluation certifies the acquisition of competencies, by granting a digital badge.

A preliminary thorough multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary collaborative learning needs assessment, involving field practitioners and target audience representatives, is conducted to design a comprehensive curriculum.

The curriculum is based on a detailed analysis of the target audience groups, including their roles, job functions and responsibilities, their key job tasks, and the knowledge, skills and competencies required to improve their performance and reach the overall learning intervention objectives.

Each course has a clear purpose, realistic objectives that are measurable through knowledge tests and a final evaluation that certifies the acquisition of competencies, through the Digital Badges system.

The FAO courses aim to give wide access to education worldwide, to geographically dispersed and marginalized individuals, and gender-biased communities.

International Technical Webinars

The FAO elearning Academy organizes and delivers International technical webinars, in close collaboration with Agreenium (l'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France) and UN-ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific).

These technical webinars are an opportunity for all of us to share experiences and lessons learnt, discuss challenges, and propose innovative solutions and models. These webinars aim to provide a holistic and comprehensive view of current trends in thematic areas related to global challenges, by combining development, research and innovation perspectives.

The main objective of the International webinars is to give practitioners the opportunity to interact with international experts, United Nations officers, university professors, researchers and fellow participants, throughout the world. They can be attended as interactive online sessions on Zoom and are also recorded and available, through the FAO elearning Academy.

Mobile Learning

In certain learning contexts and settings, our courses are made available for learning on mobile devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets). Mobile learning experiences deliver content in small modular chunks and are particularly effective and appropriate when learners are in remote areas with poor internet connectivity, or if they need quick, just-in-time support.

 Just tick the box “mobile” close to the search box to have a direct access to the mobile responsive e-learning courses available.

Face to face capacity development interventions

FAO elearning Academy supports the FAO technical divisions and a number of partners in designing, developing and delivering face-to-face capacity development interventions, which are aligned with FAO priority areas and the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030.

These learning interventions are designed to:

  • Support member countries’ national policy environment, legal frameworks and decision-making processes.

  • Document and capitalize on country experiences

  • Capture institutional memory

  • Gather and share lessons learned

  • Replicate in different settings

  • Follow a learner-centred approach

  • Place countries in the center of their own capacity development process

  • Use local expertise and traditional knowledge

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

FAO elearning Academy organizes, supports and delivers free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with a number of partners and various thematic areas, aligned with FAO strategic programme and the SDG Framework.

MOOCs are extremely powerful capacity development interventions, which facilitate scaling-up of quality learning experiences, to enable skills and competencies acquisition, for shaping more competitive professional profiles. MOOCs are designed in modular manner, have a clear purpose, realistic objectives that are measurable, through knowledge tests and a final evaluation that certifies the acquisition of competencies.

MOOCs aim to give wide access to education worldwide, and to geographically dispersed and marginalized individuals and gender-biased communities.

Online tutored courses

The FAO elearning Academy organizes online tutored courses targeted at specific audiences. These instructor-led courses are modular interactive and based on practical activities, with a set of hands-on tasks designed around realistic scenarios.

Collaborative activities are another core element of these tutored courses, in fact, geographically dispersed participants engage in peer-reviews and discussion groups. The tutor guides them throughout their learning experience to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing. These instructor-led courses are designed around specific competencies. Through experiential learning and hands-on activities learners are guided in applying the newly acquired competencies in a concrete project related to in their professional life.

University learning programmes

FAO has established several partnerships with academic institutions, universities and consortia of universities for the creation of specialized joint Master’s and Post-Graduate Degree programmes and University Specializations, fully based on the FAO elearning courses and associated materials.

The FAO elearning Academy is collaborating with UNIMED, Future Food Institute, LUISS University, African Virtual University, RUFORUM, Open University of Catalonia, UDUAL, University of Pretoria, La Sapienza University, UNITELMA, and many others.

Blended learning programmes

FAO blended learning programmes are always aligned with regional or national policy and/or legal frameworks that need to be implemented, or higher-level convention or treaties to which the country needs to adhere to.

The overall aim is to strengthen the capacities of these targeted professionals and allow them to acquire specific competencies, to facilitate the implementation of policy and legal frameworks and decision-making processes, while addressing local and regional levels challenges.

These blended learning interventions are the result of a preliminary thorough multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary collaborative learning needs assessment, involving local government and institutions, field practitioners and target audience representatives.

This detailed assessment allows then to design a comprehensive curriculum, targeted to specific audiences.

The blended learning programmes provide a continuous learning opportunity over a period of four to six months, through a blended approach including:

  • An online workshop, where participants interact, via a collaborative learning platform, to learn the basics concepts and fundamentals, and initiate a participatory analysis of the country or regional context. In the online component, there is the support of a tutor to guide participants learning experience. Participants are encouraged to use social learning, through blogs, wikis, discussion to interact and complete assignments. Performance measurement criteria and assignments are included to assess participants’ performance and ensure they meet the prerequisites needed to attend the face-to-face workshop.

  • Based on the performance evaluation, following the online workshop, only successful participants attend a face-to-face workshop. The face-to-face workshop is designed based on the results of the online activities with the overall objective of enabling participants to apply the competenciesacquired in the online workshop, and jointly develop realistic action plans at national or regional level.

  • A final online mentoring phase completes the blended learning programme. In the three to six month mentoring period, learners are encouraged to apply learned skills and share the challenges, doubts and issues they are facing, at country level, with the other geographically dispersed participants. This is referred to as peer-to-peer support, and the tutor that provides mentoring, guidance and advice. Therefore, in this phase, participants receive support for the implementation of the action plans designed in the face-to- face workshop, and keep the collaboration and dialogue with other participants.

Self-paced coursesInternational Technical WebinarsMobile Learning Face to face capacity development interventionsMassive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)Online tutored coursesUniversity learning programmesBlended learning programmes
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