1. Connecting Classrooms Online

4. What are the benefits?

5. What are the benefits of CCO? A potentially powerful means for Ministries to build capacity as part of education reform initiatives where the development of ICT skills is a focus A meaningful context for developing teachers and their students’ ICT skills within the framework of international school partnership work Involvement in Connecting Classrooms Online can provide schools with a means to both seek funding opportunities for international school partnership and to support applications for such funding through evidence of the online collaborative work they will have done through working in this way Connecting Classrooms Online provides structured joint curriculum projects through its forums and partners’ project spaces as well as access to online training materials and resources directly related to developing a global dimension in teaching and learning Schools can be involved in CCO for as short or as long a time as they wish, and will be guaranteed access to the support offered by the programme as long as they are involved Connecting Classrooms Online provides professional development and networking opportunities both online and face-to-face through the development of its British Council Ambassador network

6. Building the Network

9. Next steps

11. Support

13. Connecting Classrooms Online