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The first experience of the Open University of Maidan (OUM) activities helped us to make several important conclusions. First of all, our team should apply different approaches and observe the issues from different perspectives to implement changes as it is hard to realize what will be needed in the process, what programs should be outlined and how to establish a systematic approach in one’s studying. Gained experience supported us in our decision to create “Concerned Activist’s School” educational program. This school is the result of facilitators', psychologists', activists', and leaders’ work. Implementing the experience of 26 events we had held all over Ukraine, we transformed the School into a branch of massive open online courses that provide a balanced and comprehensive base of knowledge about public activism, have straight structure and deliver simple and precise messages.
It is extremely crucial that “Concerned Activist’s School” as many other complex programs by the OUM is always changing and adopting concerning demands of the society and patterns of its development.
But how does it actually works? If you are interested in one of our massive open online courses and sign up for it, our platform automatically signs you up for all the online courses of this program.
Complex programs require not only the successful ending of the particular online courses but final assignment completing. When you end the course you may get your Certificate.
This part contains complex solutions of the issues in the civil society sphere. The main objective of the complex programs is to help us with an efficient understanding of the courses and experts effectiveness in answering complicated questions that are on your list. Topics of our courses may correlate with your particular problems and may be instrumental in the troubleshooting process.
The platform creates new opportunities for those responsible and active members of the communities who are ready to change themselves and their communities. Choose your program now and enjoy the education process on the OUM!
Due to an outdated system of thinking, Ukrainians need to be explained the difference between the owner of a private house and the owner of the apartment blocks. It is not obvious to everyone that there may be many co-owners in the apartment building and problems may seem alien until the moment when the water leaks through the holey roof. To make decisions, people need to be ready to communicate, negotiate, persuade, and defend their own position. Apartment buildings co-owners should become a community and take responsibility for their property.
The basis of the common resources management of the community is the advocacy of the legitimate rights and each owner responsibilities. This complex program aims to provide a full range of knowledge of common property management and includes the following courses:
- Energy Efficiency of the apartment blocks in practice
- Effective Management of Common Property through Condominiums
- How to deal with household waste
- Fundamentals of Energy Co-operation
- Project Management
- Introduction to Mediation
- Who is Who? Psychological Age of People and Communities
The Conscious Citizen School is a complex program of civic education launched by the founders of the Open University of Maidan and the Dialogue on Maidan initiative in January-February 2014. The purpose of this program is the formation of proactive civil society in the Ukrainian regions: assistance to local activists in search ideas and formation of teams that will realize different projects in their communities to change the situation for the better.
The program comprises 10 courses and covers various aspects of the development at the personal and institutional levels. All the courses are freely accessible and open to everyone.
This course is developed for those who are ready to make a breakthrough in business or create a unique and successful social project. It is for those who are tired of waiting for changes and ready to start to manage their own life, business, country. "Strategy" and "marketing" are not superfluous words to "management". These are important features of modern management.
- “Strategic” means to be oriented to the future, it is proactive management.
- “Marketing” means to be focused on partnership in relationships, consensus in the interests and activities.
Due to an outdated system of housing and communal services management, Ukrainians are obliged to pay a lot of money for heating. At the same time the temperature regime may hardly depend on the sum they are paying. The course shows you how to change this situation. IFC experts of "Energy efficiency in the residential sector of Ukraine" are ready to help. More than a thousand Ukrainians have already used these advices.
The course was developed by the IFC team with the support of the Swiss Confederation. It includes only practical recommendations, verified by the experience of work in Ukrainian realities.
The course is in Ukrainian. It is freely accessible and open to everyone.
Many Ukrainians live in high-rise buildings. Traditionally, the responsibility for order in such buildings was carried by the housing and communal services. But everything has changed now and Ukrainians have the opportunity to be responsible for their own common property.
The course shows the process of creating condominiums and organize effective management of the common property. It also explains how to avoid the possible problems during the organization process.
The course is in Ukrainian. It is freely accessible and open to everyone.
Plast is a Ukrainian scout organization. Due to self-development in Plast, the future generation of new Ukrainians is being raised today. Plast allows to master the many important skills such as leadership, stress susceptibility, responsibility and many others.
This course is especially interesting for those who want to be a part of the Ukrainian Scout movement. During the course, participants learn the organization history, values and tasks of Plast, the role of a volunteer in the organization, the peculiarities of the methodology of education.
The course is in Ukrainian. It is freely accessible and open to everyone.
It is possible to change the situation in Ukraine for the better when citizens take responsibility and start to control and influence the situation, and not only through elections. Each citizen has to set a question where and how the budget funds are spent and how the communal property of the community is managed. Taxes must work for people and so citizens must carefully monitor all such activities, because it affects the lives of every citizen, every family.
This course shows how to control public procurement and operations with public / communal property.
The course is in Ukrainian. It is freely accessible and open to everyone.
This course is not about yoga, mediums or mass media. It considers an effective communication that allows to find a solution that satisfies both sides of the communication process. The course provides basic concepts of mediation methods and presents effective ways of conflict solving. This course is for those who want to understand their own desires, and also meet the other person needs. It is also for those who deal with conflict situations and want to learn how to solve them. The use of some mediation methods becomes clear immediately after the course completion. All interested people are provided with special opportunities for further trainings.
The course is in Russian. It is freely accessible and open to everyone.
Nowadays, career development has its own peculiarities. It is difficult to predict which professions will be in demand in 5 years. Even more it should be taken into account that some of them has not been created yet. Moreover, the life cycle of some professors is very short and that is troubling as one may lose a job. So, how can people plan a career?
This course explains the issues of the career development and will be useful for students and for those who only choose the future profession or change it - young professionals, experienced professionals, executives, and educated managers. The course does not consider aspects of how to find a job, write a CV, or to be prepared for an interview. The focus is on career planning and its development.
The course is in Ukrainian. It is freely accessible and open to everyone.
This course is developed for managers who want to improve their skills in the quick analysis of financial information. It explains how to make the decisions in launching products and stopping sales of the existing ones, to calculate the best moment for replacing equipment, to hire new staff and others. Based on the analysis of available financial information, the course shows how to make decisions effectively, what indicators should be considered, how to calculate them and what factors one has to take into account.
Financial materials are provided in the comprehensive manner making this course clear and simple for general understanding,
The course is in Ukrainian. It is freely accessible and open to everyone.