Investing in young children : an elearning course

A child's earliest years present a window of opportunity to improve outcomes later in life. A growing body of literature demonstrates that lack of investments in children in early years can have dramatic negative consequences for their future ability to learn and lead healthy and productive lives. The opposite also holds: Investing in young children can generate very high returns, particularly when compared to equivalent investments made at later stages in life. The course builds on face-to-face training workshops implemented over the last two years and consists of three interactive web-based modules with 15 topics and a total learning time of approximately four to five hours. The three modules are devoted to three simple questions: (1) why invest in ECD? (2) What matters for ECD? (3) How should ECD interventions be implemented? At the end of each module, participants are invited to take a quiz with questions related to the materials covered in the module, and upon completion of the three quizzes with at least 80 percent of correct answers, participants receive a certificate of completion for the course.