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What is the Gaza Virtual Campus?

The Gaza Virtual Campus (GVC) is a flagship program of UNESCO’s reponse to learning continuity crisis in Gaza. It seeks to provide teachers and educators with opportunities to improve their pedagogical knowledge and practice through a wide selection of upskilling courses ranging from Mental Health Psychosocial Support/Social Emotional Learning (MHPSS/SEL) and digital pedagogical training for conflict areas, to the use of ICTs, digital technologies, and other forms of distance and hybrid education.

Response to new challenges

In recent times, new educational challenges and demands have emerged and require reconsidering educational offers and upskilling the changemakers at the forefront of such transformations: teachers.

A motivated teacher in the classroom is the single most important school-based factor to ensure quality education and learning outcomes. The current global “teachers’ gap”, the teachers’ shortage, is both quantitative and qualitative, as many are lacking sufficient skills and training, due to shortage and on-ramping recruitments. Teachers have adapted their practice to cater to longstanding and emerging needs and to a variety of contexts, yet they need to beempowered within well-resourced, efficient, and effectively governed systems.

The most efficient approach to closing the gap is support preparedness by providing content, format, and pedagogies diversification beyond the technological upskilling: a sound preparation on crisis trauma-informed practices, social and emotional learning, education in displacement, psychosocial support, and wellbeing, supported by stronger collaborations among multiple stakeholders, including parents and communities, to sustain learning.

Who can access the courses?

The GVC offers teachers, teacher educators, and teacher training institutions a curated online catalogue of self-paced and facilitated courses. All offers are free of charge. Teachers and teacher educators can access the self-paced courses by clicking the link provided.

For accessing facilitated courses, please contact GazaVirtualCampus@unesco.org

Gaza Higher Education Institutions

Gaza Virtual Campus (GVC) is a virtual ecosystem of the following partner universities that form the steering committee and the editorial board of the GVC alongside UNESCO.

Featured Courses

Courses aim to enhance equally ICT skills and online or hybrid instruction and learning as much as teachers’ and students’ social-emotional development and wellbeing.

Several courses may require users to register in order to gain access. All courses are free of charge.