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12/2021
FREEJOO

FREEJOO

Akadasia
Teacher's professional development
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FreeJoo is a platform for teacher’s professional development

FreeJoo is THE Global Community of Educators. It provides 21st-century education to educators, helps increase the supply of trained educators, and helps educators improve their income.

With FreeJoo educators can:
1. Access a wide range of professional development content designed by global experts to help them transform into 21st-century educators,
2. Join existing and/or build their own communities of teaching practice, network with and learn from other educators from all around the world,
3. Design their own engaging content using the easiest course builder ever.

Age groups 
Professional education
All education levels
Languages 
Bahasa Indonesia
English
Vietnamese
Hindi
Filipino
Platform 
Browser-based
Registration 
Required
Offline play 
Internet required
Pictures
Videos
Collaborate, share ideas, network, plan excursions & immersion trips and socialise with other teachers.

Collaborate, share ideas, network, plan excursions & immersion trips and socialise with other teachers.

FREEJOO

FREEJOO

FreeJoo uses a simple drag and drop template structure that allows teachers put together a course in minutes.

FreeJoo uses a simple drag and drop template structure that allows teachers put together a course in minutes.

Pedagogy
Educational Quality
Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive
Active
FreeJoo has great pre-curated materials for helping one's professional development as a teacher. Joining FreeJoo gives the teacher the freedom to choose what and how to learn, and when to do courses based on their needs. FreeJoo's course builders have great integrations, e.g. the educators can make the courses interactive by using quizzes, Padlet writing etc.
Rehearse
Construct
In FreeJoo the learning goals are very well present, and the course content also refers to other courses in the platform; giving recommendations on what could be learned next. This allows building new knowledge gradually. The progress in the course is clearly made visible with percentages and progress bars, and the learners also gain a certificate after the course.
Linear
Non-linear/Creative
The topics teachers wish to explore are non-linear, meaning there is no concrete right or wrong, but rather the learner needs to apply the content to their own unique work. When enrolling to a course, the progress of the learner is very well laid out; a student can view their progress throughout the course and see what they have achieved and what they have to study further in order to complete the course.
Individual
Collaborative
The key part is that the user is in control of their learning goals and path. The user progresses at their own pace which is important as they need to understand big issues before moving onto the next stage. FreeJoo allows collaboration within the same school - the course creation and community management tools allow for very rich and interactive school-wide training. FreeJoo also provides a channel for sharing information and forming connection with a multinational community of teachers.

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

FreeJoo has great tools for creating professional learning courses both inside your organization and for public use.
Integration to several online tools allow for rich online pedagogy in the courses.
The community and networking tools make FreeJoo useful in long-term development.

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

FreeJoo has an expanding offering of courses for teachers on multiple topic.

Soft skills learning goals

Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability
Practicing communication through different channels
Learning to plan and design own written content and textual representations
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Understanding technological system operations through making
Using technological resources for finding and applying information
Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology
Using technology for interaction and collaboration
Using technology to express one’s emotions and experiences
Using technology for interaction and collaboration (also internationally)
Practicing to notice causal connections
Enabling the growth of positive self-image
Encouraging positive attitude towards working life
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Practicing to observe spoken and written language
Learning consumer knowledge and smart economics
Learning to notice causal connections
Learning to plan and organize work processes
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
Practicing to set one's own learning goals
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Practicing versatile ways of working
Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life
Realizing the connection between subjects learned in free time and their impact to skills needed at worklife
Practicing to notice links between subjects learned
Learning to face respectfully people and follow the good manners
Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us
Practicing to work with others
Practicing to argument clearly own opinions and reasonings
Practicing creative thinking
Practicing to take care of own and other people’s safety
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Practicing to take care of one's own wellbeing and health
Practicing to take care of one's own and other people’s safety
Practicing to express own thoughts and feelings
Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
Practicing time management
Practicing decision making
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
Practicing to use information independently and interactively
Practicing to find, evaluate and share information
Using technology resources for problem solving
Using technology as a part of explorative process
Practicing persistent working
Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Developing problem solving skills
Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations
Practicing to look things from different perspectives
Practicing strategic thinking

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Our Quality Evaluation Method is an academically sound approach to evaluating a product’s pedagogical design from the viewpoint of educational psychology.

The method has been developed with university researchers and all evaluators are carefully selected Finnish teachers with a master's degree in education.

More about the evaluation