Teachers & Professors
Explore new approaches for your classroom, students, and teaching practice.
4-Week Online Professional Development Course
Designing the Future
of Education
Transformative Practices for Learning Leaders
Reimagine how you teach. Explore practical approaches to transform learning in your classroom, community, and educational system.
4-week online experienceGlobal learning communityUPEACE Certificate
Reimagine what education can be
Prepare your learners for a changing world.
What will your students need to know, value, and be able to do in a future that is hard to visualize?
Explore that question with educational leaders, pioneers, and practitioners from around the world. Reflect on your own education challenge and discover fresh ways to respond.
Leave with ideas to reshape your teaching practice, schools, communities, and educational systems.
Who should take this course?
For educators ready to rethink how learning happens.
Designed for educators at all levels, researchers, policy-makers, administrators, and educational project coordinators. Bring an education challenge from your own context.
School & Learning Leaders
Rethink how your institution responds to changing learner needs.
Nonformal Educators
Bring fresh ideas to community learning and education beyond the classroom.
Education Innovators
Connect research, policy, and educational projects with new possibilities for learning.
Flexible schedule
Compelling content built for your busy week.
With an average of 4–8 hours of work per week, this online course brings together videos, live webinars, articles, and discussion forums.
Online format
DatesJanuary 28–February 18, 2027
LiveThursdays, 12:00–1:30 PM EST on Zoom
ConnectedExchange perspectives with fellow educators and receive personalized feedback.
What to expect
Course skills and benefits
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Your four-week journey
Reflect. Rethink.
Rebuild learning.
Think critically about how we communicate, find information, learn, and work. Explore new pedagogies and bring fresh perspectives to your own education challenge.
This course counts toward the Diploma in Social Innovation or Global Leadership Diploma.
Weekly journey:
Week 01Educating in a Fast Changing World
Week 02Pedagogies for the 21st Century
Week 03Education for Peace & Planetary Wellbeing
Week 04The Future of Education
Course details
Everything you need to plan your experience.
Facilitator
Main facilitator
Taylor O’Connor
Taylor is a youth peacebuilding specialist and peace educator passionate about peacebuilding innovation and participatory approaches. He earned his Master’s in Peace Education from UPEACE in 2009 and spent nearly a decade working with youth peacebuilders and community-based organizations in Myanmar.
He has worked with UNICEF to develop resources and participatory programming for young people in conflict-affected contexts, including virtual trainings and eCourses that have reached participants in more than 100 countries.
Through Everyday Peacebuilding, consulting, and grassroots work, Taylor creates practical resources to help people transform the issues they care about and build peace in their communities.
Course design: Mohit Mukherjee, Founding Director of the UPEACE Centre for Executive Education, created this course. He founded the Centre in 2006 and holds degrees from Stanford University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Course Schedule
This 4-week online course runs from January 28, 2027 to February 18, 2027.
Live Zoom sessions: Thursdays, 12:00–1:30 PM EST.
Course Format
Plan for an average of 4–8 hours of work per week, with videos, live webinars, articles, and discussion forums.
Connect with educators from around the world and receive personalized feedback from your facilitator as you explore challenges and possibilities in your own educational context.
Course Cost
$650
Tuition for the 4-week online course
UPEACE certificate included
A certificate is awarded upon completion by the Centre for Executive Education at the University for Peace, established by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Learn together and save. Enroll with someone else and each receive a 10% discount. Contact us for groups of 3 or more.
Financial plan options. If your participation needs a financial plan to be possible, contact us and we will be happy to share available options.
Alumni discount. University for Peace alumni and alumni of the Centre for Executive Education receive a discount.
Questions?
Contact us at centre@upeace.org or visit our Frequently Asked Questions.
For enrollment inquiries, contact Annia, our program manager.
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Past participants say
Fresh perspectives. Lasting inspiration.
This course allowed opportunities for team building, critical thinking, problem solving, cultural competence, and the practice of authentic leadership skills to define a vision and reach common objectives. I left feeling inspired and more passionate about driving durable changes at the local level and with a global reach!
Alba Diaz
University Professor
This was a wonderful opportunity to connect with dynamic individuals from all over the world and brainstorm about ways to improve and reinvent education in the 21st century. I’ve taken away new techniques and ideas that I can implement immediately with my own university students.
Kristen Palana
Graphic Designer at UNICEF
This course has been that force to assist me in reimagining education in a new and exciting ways and that it is possible to make a change.
The idea that you are helpless is inaccurate. This course has shown that you just have to reposition your mind and find the people who are likeminded with resources and tools to make the difference.
Tyjondah Marshall Gulston
Trinidad and Tobago
Educating in Changing Times was a great decision; I was able to understand that, as a teacher, I am not alone dealing with the new ways students lear, and make me think I need to change the way I present it to them. I was really important for me to share my point of view with others, out of Costa Rica, and learn from them.
Milena Murillo
Costa Rica
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Ready to join us?
Reimagine education.Help shape what comes next.
Join a global community of educators and explore new possibilities for the way we teach and learn.
January 28–February 18, 2027 · Thursdays, 12:00–1:30 PM EST
