Getting Started with Learning Box

The Directorate for Research, Lifelong Learning and Employability within the Ministry for Education started offering several self-paced courses as part of its learning provision in November 2021. These courses are brought together by professionals and adult learning educators shifting the method of learning from in-class or educator-directed to digital and educator-supported.

What is Learning Box?

Through self-paced courses, adult learners can further their education, upskill, or reskill according to their needs.

Learning box aims to provide immersive and engaging digital educational opportunities accessible at any time to adult learners. Furthermore, ensuring high quality standards education in the provision of adult education and focusing on reaching more adult learners including working adults for upskilling and reskilling purposes.

Watch the video and learn more about Learning Box.

Self-Paced Courses 

Courses that allow you to learn on your own schedule, within a certain timeframe:

Step into Maltese: A beginner’s course for non-native speakers (30 hours) This course will focus on the basic phonetic, lexical, and grammatical notions of the Maltese language; and help potential students familiarise with idiomatic challenges.

Demystifying Coding (50 hours) This course will empower participants with no prior programming experience to design animations, games, interactive stories, and apps.

Introduction to Project Management (50 hours) This course aims to provide an introduction to project management theory and practice.

The Power to Create and Understand Media: A Media Literacy Course (100 hours) This course will seek to deliver a basic understanding of what media literacy education is as well as its importance and relevance to the everyday life of responsible citizens.

Mind, Body, and Spirit: A Holistic Approach to Mental Health (100 hours) This course will seek to deliver a basic but clear understanding of what holistic health and well-being is and what mental health consists of. 

Exploring different secular and religious worldviews (100 hours) This course will seek to deliver a basic but clear understanding of different religious and secular worldviews that exist in present Western societies.

The essential skills of leadership and management (100 hours) This course serves as a good introduction to leadership and management principles and practices to guide learners into basic leadership and management skills, and prepare for working with and managing people.

Connect with your customers: become a person of excellence in customer care (100 hours) This course is suitable for learners who wish to engage in customer care or seeking work in customer care.

Empowering Personal and Professional Development (100 hours) This course is designed to facilitate better understanding of oneself, with the aim of developing oneself further.

Mastering problem-solving skills: An interactive course for employees (100 hours) This course is aimed at all individuals who would like to learn more about the structure, process and tools used to solve individual and organisational problems.

Children’s Rights, Discrimination and Inclusion (100 hours) The course covers several topics including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Maltese National Children’s Policy, the identification of barriers to child participation and equality of access.

The Learning Through Play Approach (100 hours) This course is designed to introduce course participants to the Learning through Play approach in supporting child development.

An introduction to Human resource management (100 hours) This course introduces learners to human resource management, a key competence for private, public and non-governmental organizations.

Getting Ready for a Successful future: Study Skills and Writing (100 hours) This course course is designed to introduce course candidates to specific study skills and to good-quality writing.

How long is the course?

Registrations for self-paced courses are open from February to April 2023. A course will commence once the minimum capacity is reached.  The Directorate will inform you once a course commences and participants are encouraged to complete the course at their own pace by 15 June 2023.

What do I need to do to complete a course?

As soon as you apply for a course and the minimum capacity is reached you will be contacted by the Directorate. You will receive instructions on how to access the course content. When you complete each section, click on the button ‘Close and Mark as Read’. You will also need to participate in the discussions and complete any quizzes and assignments. Educators will be correcting the work and providing feedback when necessary.

How do I contact the educators?

If you need support with the course content, you can contact the educators via email on learningbox.meyr@gov.mt. Please include the course title in the subject email.

When do I receive the letter of attendance?

You will receive a letter of attendance after the course closes in mid-June 2023.

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New Learners: Those who never applied for a course with the Directorate for Lifelong Learning

If you have never applied for a course with the Directorate for Lifelong Learning, you need to sign up with your e-ID and proceed with the application. If you have already applied for a course with the Directorate for Lifelong Learning, proceed to the next section.

Watch this video to learn more about signing up for an account and applying for a course.

You can find guidelines on How to register and apply for a course

Learners who have already applied for a course with the Directorate for Lifelong Learning

If you have previously applied for a course with the Directorate for Lifelong Learning you do not need to sign up for an account. You can apply by either clicking on;

• Personal Email if you have signed up with a personal email (such as Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo) or;
• Lifelong Learning Email if you have a lifelong learning username in the form of name.surname@lifelonglearning.edu.mt

You can also find guidelines on How to register and apply for a course

Once you apply for a self-paced course you will receive an email that verifies your acceptance for the course. The Directorate for Lifelong Learning will contact you once the minimum capacity is reached and you will be able to access the course content.

Watch this video to learn more on how to access course content

Go to www.learningbox.edu.mt and click on the Login button. Once you are logged in, you will be on the Overview page, go to the My Courses section and click on the unread/available icon.

The course resources will be available as soon as the minimum capacity is reached for you to complete at your own pace.

You can also check the guide How to access course content

You can check the guide on How to submit an assignment

It includes details about the assignment view, an exercise detail view, and instructions on how to submit an assignment on Learning Box.

You can check the guide on How to submit a quiz

It includes details about the quiz tool, the exercise detail window, information on how to submit a quiz and a sample of the different quiz questions.

Apply and get access to the Getting Started on Learning Box demonstration course.

The course is designed to let you experience on online course. It will showcase different course resources available on our Virtual Learning Platform.

In this demonstration course, you’ll learn what it’s like to participate in a course to help you decide if self-paced learning is right for you.

You are encouraged to apply for the demonstration course before you apply for a blended learning or self-paced course with payment.

Applying for this demonstration course is free – there is no payment.

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