In 2021, the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) launched the first courses on its online learning platform, FEE Academy. Today, we’re excited to have met the 3,000 users mark on FEE Academy!
Initially, FEE Academy was created with FEE’s 100+ member organisations in mind. The idea was to produce courses that would support our members in the implementation of one or more of FEE’s five programmes (Blue Flag, Green Key, Eco-Schools, Learning about Forests (LEAF) and Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE)). With educational systems impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, we quickly came to realize that FEE Academy, which is hosted on Moodle, could be a valuable resource not only for our FEE members but everyone interested in learning more about topics related to sustainability and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It became a platform to support quality education and professional development.
Since then, we’ve developed over 20 courses around three key themes; empowering climate action, protecting global biodiversity and reducing environmental pollution. Courses cover topics from pollution and the circular economy to environmental literacy, outdoor education and the Sustainable Development Goals. We’ve also created several programme-specific goals that support capacity-building for the FEE network, including the courses Introduction to Green Key, Outdoor Education: Using Nature as a Classroom, and Eco-Schools Seven Steps - A Project Based Learning Best Practice.
This April, we were excited to launch an incredible course for teachers, Climate Change Education: From Action to Knowledge, which was developed in partnership with the Office for Climate Education. Going forward, this course, as well as the Eco-Schools Seven Steps - A Project-Based Learning Best Practice course, will be valuable tools to support greening schools as part of FEE’s role in the Greening Education Partnership.
We believe FEE Academy has something to offer everyone, whether you’d like to learn about biodiversity or become an auditor for the Green Key programme. This is why all our courses on FEE Academy are free for everyone to use. We also know how busy life can be, which is why our courses are self-paced, meaning you can access them at any time and from anywhere. You can explore course offerings on our website or directly at www.feeacademy.global. To take a course, you simply need to create an account.
Thank you to the many people who have joined FEE Academy and helped us improve it over the past year. We’re looking forward to seeing it continue to grow over the next months and years!