Free Teacher Training
Free Courses
Offered by volunteers at OU and UWTSD
The Open University (OU) and the University of Wales Trinity St David (UWTSD) formed an informal voluntary academic collaboration, based on long established free instructor/teacher training courses offered by the Open University.
The model is simple: you enrol at any time at complete your studies at a pace that works for you. We check in, once every calendar month and complete those who meet the criteria.
Each of these courses are 100% remote, instructor led, scalable, hybrid MOOC's (Massive Open Online Courses). Once you enrol, you are committed to commence (we will not remove you), however you are not required to complete (if you lack the time). From September 2024 onwards, you can dip in and out of each course at a pace that suits your workload.
Within each course, you will see prominently displayed study instructions and guidance, as well as the terms and conditions for completion. This includes terms and conditions for the final assessment, grades that must be accomplished. You must complete each final exam at 70% or greater and also complete the end-of-course survey - the final exam has unlimited attempts.
Open again, and forever from September 2024
The model has changed, as convergence has provided the OU, UWTSD and our community with an alternate approach to instructor training at scale for free. It is now a roll on, almost roll off experience, where anyone can join at any time.
So long as you complete the final exam at 70% or greater and complete the end-of-course survey - you will be accredited.
To directly enrol on each course - please click on one of the following links:
Completion will happen once a month - typically around the first week of each month, where a volunteer will dive in and check off all those who have completed and met the Final Exam and end-of-course survey criteria. A word to the very wise - pestering us, may encourage removal - not completion.
Terms and conditions of enrolment for the post September 2024, rolling intake:
With the evolution of NetAcad post convergence - there may be minor issues, which you will accept with due consideration.
You understand that this is a voluntary endeavour run by volunteers, there is no entitlement, no commitment, no recourse and no liability on behalf of Cisco, the OU or UWTSD.
The team will checkin once a month, at the start of the month and complete/accredit those who meet the criteria.
Your purpose for participating in this training, is to utilise Cisco accreditation and credentialing, to teach any of these courses via NetAcad.
If you are already enrolled elsewhere, the OU Cisco team and collaborating colleagues WILL NOT remove you from this enrolment
By enrolling, you acknowledge that this is a 100% remote, 100% self-supporting experience
You can unenrol and re-enrol at any time; however any loss of data is entirely your own risk
You will follow the completion requirements described within each course - it is your responsibility to read these with care
You acknowledge that by enrolling on any of these courses, you will not consider yourself to be a formal student of any organisation supporting this programme, including the Open University
You must already have instructor status at an established Cisco Academy - the OU Cisco Team nor UWTSD will provide this
You will not pester the team for anything, doing so will risk of being removed from the programme.
Cavaet emptor (or buyer beware):
From September, 2024 - this experience is experimental - we are still discovering the affordances of the new NetAcad platform.
The courses are set to terminate by 2059 - this is intentional - as Cisco release new content, we will deprecate existing courses and replace them with newer, more current content.