TechChange welcomes opportunity to work with organizations and universities to deliver innovative online courses to staff, constituents and other target audiences on our custom online learning platform. Courses are fully customizable (content, length, bandwidth, language etc.) and can be tailored to to fit the needs of institutional clients. To learn more about the features of our platform or request a demo email us at info@techchange.org. For a list of custom course topics see below.
Custom Course Topics
- TC101: Technology for Social Change
- TC102: Introduction to Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)
- TC103: Technology Tools and Skills for Emergency Management
- TC104: Global Innovations for Digital Organizing: New Tactics for Democratic Change
- TC105: Mobile Phones for International Development: New Platforms for Public Health, Finance, and Education
- TC106: New Technologies for Educational Practice
- TC107: New Media and Citizen Journalism in the 21st Century
- TC108: Technology and Social Entrepreneurship
- TC109: Technology for Conflict Prevention and Peacekeeping
- TC110: Social Media and Technology Tools for Research
- TC201: Ushahidi
- TC202: FrontlineSMS
- TC203: Open Street Map
- TC204: M-Pesa & Mobile Money Transfer Systems
- TC205: Twitter
- TC206: JavaROSA
- TC301: Data Collection, Evaluation and Monitoring
- TC302: Security and Censorship Circumvention Tools
- TC303: Technology, Transparency, and Good Governance: The Rise of Open Data
- TC304: Mobile Technology and Election Monitoring
- TC305: Technology and the Rule of Law
- TC306: Social Media for Social Change
- TC307: Technology, Climate Change and the Environment
- TC308: Video Games for Social Change
Track Record
TechChange has successfully managed distance learning projects for groups in Sudan and Pakistan, and has provided simultaneous training for participants in over 43 countries. Examples of our group courses include:
TC104a: Global Innovations for Digital Organizing
TechChange directors Charles Martin-Shields and Chris Neu worked with AECOM’s Sudan office to create a space for 20 Sudanese civil society organization leaders to learn about technology for civic engagement. Chris and Charles worked with AECOM’s staff to determine appropriate content, and make modifications to the platform so that participants could participate in both English and Arabic, as well as having a Sudanese civil society expert co-facilitate the course.
Global Innovations for Global Collaboration
Working with IREX, TechChange Director Chris Neu is facilitating an online training program for 40 Pakistani university students as part of the Global UGRAD program, using TechChange’s online training platform. The three week course will provide the students will opportunities to learn from experts on global development and technology, as well as maintain their relationships that were developed during their studies at U.S. universities.
Blended Learning
TechChange is currently in the process of designing approaches to blended learning, drawing on the team’s experience doing face-to-face training in Africa, the Middle East and at leading universities. By combining the best practices of in-person training with opportunities for participants to continue learning in an online environment, we expect to develop a model of capacity building that is both sustainable and cost-effective for institutions working in the fields of technology, development and conflict prevention.