Global Teacher Campus
Mobilizing the Global Education Coalition to support teachers in the development of digital skills and pedagogical competencies for online, remote and hybrid education, and to address learning losses.
What is the Global Teacher Campus?
The Global Teacher Campus (GTC) is a flagship program of UNESCO’s Global Education Coalition. It seeks to provide teachers and educators with opportunities to improve their pedagogical knowledge and practice through a wide selection of upskilling courses ranging from Mental Health Psychosocial Support/Social Emotional Learning (MHPSS/SEL) and digital pedagogical training for conflict areas, to the use of ICTs, digital technologies, and other forms of distance and hybrid education.
Response to new challenges
In recent times, new educational challenges and demands have emerged and require reconsidering educational offers and upskilling the changemakers at the forefront of such transformations: teachers.
A motivated teacher in the classroom is the single most important school-based factor to ensure quality education and learning outcomes. The current global “teachers’ gap”, the teachers’ shortage, is both quantitative and qualitative, as many are lacking sufficient skills and training, due to shortage and on-ramping recruitments. Teachers have adapted their practice to cater to longstanding and emerging needs and to a variety of contexts, yet they need to be empowered within well-resourced, efficient, and effectively governed systems.
The most efficient approach to closing the gap is support preparedness by providing content, format, and pedagogies diversification beyond the technological upskilling: a sound preparation on crisis trauma-informed practices, social and emotional learning, education in displacement, psychosocial support, and wellbeing, supported by stronger collaborations among multiple stakeholders, including parents and communities, to sustain learning.
How does it work?
In this context, the GTC brings further learning opportunities for teacher professional development in the fields of hybrid and distance education, and training courses focused on the knowledge and skills required to teach at a distance and in diverse learning environments, including crisis situations, also through curriculum management and formative assessment. Drawing from the GEC partners and UNESCO’s own frameworks and standards, the GTC aims to develop teachers and more adaptive and responsive education systems.
Who can access the courses?
The GTC offers teachers, teacher educators, and teacher training institutions a curated online catalogue of self-paced and facilitated courses. All offers are free of charge. Teachers and teacher educators can access the self-paced courses by clicking the link provided.
For accessing facilitated courses, please contact GlobalTeacherCampus@unesco.org
Available Courses
Below you can search courses available thanks to the generosity of members.
Courses aim to enhance equally ICT skills and online or hybrid instruction and learning as much as teachers’ and students’ social-emotional development and wellbeing.
Several courses may require users to register in order to gain access. All courses are free of charge.
Online and Distance Learning for Teachers in Africa (ODLTA)
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP)
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP)
Online and Distance Learning for Teachers in Africa
- Online Teaching Tools
- Distance Teaching
- Africa
Available in English
Completion time: 2 hours
Course participation certificate of courses and final exam
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
ODLTA, is an introductory course for teachers and teacher educators who plan to conduct online and distance programs. It is developed in response to school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how to use and implement distance learning with a focus on African countries.
The Digital Teacher
- Distance Teaching
- Digital Pedagogy
- Online Course Planning & Design
Available in English, Hindi, and Kyrgyz
Completion time: 20 to 25 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
A complete introductory course for online teaching with an emphasis on digital pedagogy. Learn to use digital technologies to create relevant, authentic, and engaging learning experiences. Enhance your knowledge of digital tools and how to use them meaningfully in teaching. Designed for both novice and expert users of technology to extend and supplement their practice.
SEL for Schools
- Distance Teaching
- Digital Pedagogy
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
Available in English, Hindi, Bengali (2023), and Mongoli (2023)
Completion time: 20 to 25 hours
Two certificates upon completion of courses
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This is a dual certifying course that combines SEL for Classrooms and SEL for Teachers. The objective of the certification is to enhance personal well-being and build the professional capacity of teachers for SEL.
COURSERA
Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU)
Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU)
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Learning to Teach Online
- Distance Teaching
- Blended Learning
- Online Course Planning & Design
- Online Assessment Methods
Available in English
Completion time: 18 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
Learn to design your class to make better use of educational technology (fully online or in blended contexts). Learn how online technologies can enhance your course design. Understand effective online teaching practices and their relationship to the use of different technologies. This is a hands-on, practical MOOC that will guide you through the creation or improvement of your online course.
Be an Online Tutor in 24 Hours
- Distance Teaching
- Online Teaching Tools
- Online Communication Methods
Available in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish
Completion time: 4 hours
Certificate upon completion of courses and final exam.
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
With this introductory course, learn about all the tools needed to conduct an online class. Develop your understanding of up-to-date practices, learn to conduct basic distance-learning courses, and teach effectively through a digital educational platform.
English, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, French
Design an Online Course in 24 Hours
- Distance Teaching
- Online Course Planning & Design
- Online Teaching Tools
Available in English and Arabic
Completion time: 4 hours
Certificate upon completion of courses and final exam.
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
As a follow-up course to ‘How to be an online tutor in 24 hours’, this course helps teachers fine-tune their skills and take learning further by developing an online classroom, planning, and designing online lessons, with the use of readily available online educational tools.
ProFuturo
ProFuturo
ProFuturo
Teachers’ courses – Innovation in the Classroom (catalogue)
- Online Course Planning & Design
- Digital Pedagogy
- Gamification
Available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese
Completion time: 5 - 40 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
Innovation and ICT courses on:
Innovation path: basic level, intermediate level, advanced level and professional level.
Project based learning.
Cooperative learning.
Journey to the school of the 21st century.
Introduction to gamification for teachers.
Flipped Classroom. Education Escape room.
Teachers’ courses – Using ICT (catalogue)
- Distance Teaching
- Online Communication Methods
- Digital Pedagogy
Available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese
Completion time: 5 - 40 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
These courses help teachers discover how ICT can be a great ally in daily practice.
ITC path: basic level, intermediate level, advanced level and professional level.
Teaching digital skills I, II, III.
Communication and collaboration.
Teachers’ courses – To continue learning (catalogue)
- Online Course Planning & Design
- Neurodidactics
- Bullism
- Dyslexia
Available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese
Completion time: 5 - 40 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
These courses show us how neurodidactics works, how to improve coexistence in school and much more. They are training resources to understand how we learn in the digital age.
School bullying: prevention, detention and action.
Act against cyberbullying.
Affective communication in the classroom.
Skills for a life of peace.
Learning difficulties.
Dyslexia in the classroom.
Management for principals at educational institutions.
Neurodidactics.
Computational Thought and Robotics (catalogue)
- Distance Teaching
- Computation and robotics
- Online Course Planning & Design
- Digital Pedagogy
Available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese
Completion time: 5 to 40 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
These courses will help students develop computational thinking and make them prosumers.
Enhanced and virtual reality in your classroom.
Robotics: communication.
Robotics: electronics and mechanics.
Scratch Block programming.
CFIT Training Courses
- Distance Teaching
- Computation and robotics
- Online Course Planning & Design
- Digital Pedagogy
- Africa
Available in English
Completion time: 5 to 40 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
ProFuturo has partnered with UNESCO-CFIT, under the umbrella of the Global Teacher Campus, to carry out a Teacher Training Project in 5 African countries: Liberia, Togo, Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. The goal is to train around 150 trainers/facilitators from the Ministries of Education and/or local Teacher Training Institutions, on topics such as Educational Innovation, Teacher’s Role, 21st-century education, Classroom Management, Lesson Planning, Motivation, Verification of Learning, Digital resources (Image, Audio, Video…), Digital Assessment, or Project-Based Learning. The facilitators will then cascade the training to around 3,000 teachers in 2022 and 5,000 teachers in 2023. The facilitators will be trained and mentored by ProFuturo specialist trainers using innovative methodologies and the ProFuturo Digital Platform (LMS), and it is expected that ProFuturo will donate the digital resources to the countries so that they can continue using them for future teacher training. This initiative is partially funded by the UNESCO-CFIT Fund, while ProFuturo provides the expertise, methodologies, contents and carries out the training and mentoring of facilitators. The project started on May 2022 and it is foreseen to last until June 2023.
Open Training Courses for Teachers
- Distance Teaching
- Computation and robotics
- Online Course Planning & Design
- Digital Pedagogy
Available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese
Completion time: 5 to 40 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
Teachers can enroll and follow these non-tutored courses at any moment on the following subjects:
i. Mathematics for everyone: JUMP MATH!
ii. Innovation Route
1. Basic
2. Intermediate
3. Advanced
4. Professional
Microsoft
Keeping students engaged
- Online Teaching Tools
- Inclusiveness
- STEM and coding
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
- Leadership
Available in English
Completion time: 1 hour
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This course will teach how to use a variety of Microsoft tools to set up and enhance students’ remote learning experience. Including, video conferencing with Teams, recording lessons, sharing content, work assignment and assessment.
Supporting social and emotional learning with Microsoft tools
- Online Teaching Tools
- Blended Learning
- Inclusiveness
- STEM and coding
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL)
- Leadership
Available in English
Completion time: 1 hour
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This course will introduce to social and emotional learning and give practical ways to use Microsoft tools such as Minecraft and Flipgrid to augment and enhance this learning in your school. Microsoft partnered with McKinsey & Company’s Education practice to release a research study, The Class of 2030 and Life-ready Learning, which found that the students of the future need social and emotional learning (SEL) skills to succeed in the jobs of tomorrow.
Student-centered learning
- Blended learning
- Digital Pedagogy
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
- Inclusiveness
- STEM and coding
- Online Teaching Tools
Available in English
Completion time: 1 hour
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This course is for education leaders who are interested in developing and designing student-centered learning environments and experiences. From theory to practice, course participants will develop a foundational understanding of the learning science that supports central tenets of student-centered learning, then explore and develop strategies to promote student-centered learning in their schools.
Hybrid Learning: A New Model for the Future of Learning
- Blended Learning
- Distance Teaching
- Online Teaching Tools
- Digital Pedagogy
Available in English
Completion time: 1 hour
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This course introduces educators to the hybrid learning model. Educators will learn about the five elements of hybrid learning, how to implement them, and how to utilize Microsoft Teams to create a dynamic learning environment for their students.
Hybrid Learning in the Intermediate Classroom
- Blended Learning
- Distance Teaching
- Online Teaching Tools
- Digital Pedagogy
Available in English
Completion time: 1 hour
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This course provides educators with ways to use Hybrid learning in the intermediate classroom. It expands on the Hybrid learning introduction course by focusing on the needs and understanding of the learners in the intermediate grade levels. A specific focus is on creating opportunities for choice, autonomy, and collaboration. It demonstrates how Microsoft Teams, with other Microsoft digital tools, can be designed to be the hub for the intermediate learner.
Hybrid Learning for the Adolescent Learner
- Blended Learning
- Distance Teaching
- Online Teaching Tools
- Digital Pedagogy
- Adolescence
Available in English
Completion time: 1 hour
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This course expands upon the introduction course for Hybrid learning, with a specific focus on creating a dynamic learning experience for students in grades 6-12. Secondary educators will focus on the fundamentals of using Microsoft Teams to create a comprehensive and collaborative hybrid classroom designed for adolescent learners.
Hybrid Learning in the Primary Classroom
- Blended Learning
- Distance Teaching
- Online Teaching Tools
- Digital Pedagogy
- Primary School
Available in English
Completion time: 1 hour
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This course expands upon the introduction course for hybrid learning, with a specific focus on creating a dynamic learning experience for students in primary grades. Primary grade educators will focus on the fundamentals of using Microsoft Teams as a centralized hub to create a comprehensive and collaborative hybrid classroom designed for primary-age learners.
Creating Learning Environments for Sustainability, Equity, and Access
- Blended Learning
- Online Teaching Tools
- Digital Pedagogy
- Sustainability
- Equity
Available in English
Completion time: 1 hour
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This course will help you reflect on the use of technology in the classroom as a tool to create meaningful connections with all students. Educators will reflect on using technology to make their learning culturally relevant, and culturally responsive and create a connected learning experience.
- Distance Teaching
- Online Teaching Tools
- Digital Pedagogy
- Blended Learning
Available in English
Completion time: 1 hour
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
Microsoft Teams is the communications and collaboration hub within Microsoft 365 – an essential tool for remote learning. The training courses below will help you master Microsoft Teams and enable you to teach other educators. Each course comes with resources and teacher training packs as well as a quiz to test knowledge.
Blended approaches for a modern learning environment
- Blended Learning
- Distance Teaching
- Online Teaching Tools
- Digital Pedagogy
Available in English
Completion time: 1 hour
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This learning path focuses on using Microsoft Teams to engage with students in remote and hybrid learning environments. Discover ways to utilize Teams to support all learners in different types of learning environments. Educators will find the best ways to connect with their students no matter the learning model.
Creating classroom communities using social and emotional practices
- Blended Learning
- Distance Teaching
- Online Teaching Tools
- Digital Pedagogy
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
Available in English
Completion time: 5 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
Social and emotional skills development is quickly taking center stage alongside cognitive skills, technical skills, and content knowledge in both the classroom and the workforce. Use this path to learn the fundamentals of how technology helps support social-emotional learning in the classroom. Creating a strong community begins with mindfulness. It continues by supporting students through the use of social-emotional learning techniques. Flipgrid helps engage students in meaningful ways through reflection activities. Lastly, we tie it all together by empowering educators in the hybrid classroom environment.
Continue the learning with the digital classroom and students' voice
- Blended Learning
- Distance Teaching
- Online Teaching Tools
- Digital Pedagogy
Available in English
Completion time: 4 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This learning path guides educators to discover new ways to use the amazing tools provided to them. This course focuses on taking the tools educators already know and provides practical ways for them to be used in new and engaging ways. This learning path does not need to be followed in order.
Childhood Education International
Refugee Educator Academy Webinars & Workshops Archive
- Online Teaching Tools
- Trauma-Informed Practices
- Education in Displacement
Available in English
Completion time: +21 hours
Certificate: n/a
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
Access all webinars and workshops facilitated by the Center for Learning in Practice and its Refugee Educator Academy team since 2018. In this archive, you'll find all available video and audio recordings, PowerPoint Presentations, and resource and discussion boards.
Integrating SEL & PSS into Lessons for Quality Holistic Learning
- Online Teaching Tools
- Trauma-Informed Practices
- Education in Displacement
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
Available in English, French and Arabic
Completion time: 8 to 10 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
Learners can self-guide through introductory lessons on designing an online course for the first time and supporting children with adverse childhood experiences in learning spaces.
This open, self-paced course, Integrating SEL & PSS into Lessons for Quality Holistic Learning, was designed with a team of teachers working with refugee and vulnerable learners across Lebanon.
- Online Teaching Tools
- Trauma-Informed Practices
- Education in Displacement
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
Available in English (with support in French and Arabic)
Completion time: 1 to 2 hours
Certificate: Digital Badge
Free of costs
Credits: In some districts/systems
The Center for Professional Learning at Childhood Education International has created a series of professional development opportunities centered on refugee education and quality holistic learning. Micro-credentials are competency-based assessments of an educator’s areas of expertise. They are rigorous, self-paced professional development opportunities for educators who are looking for PD that builds from their own context. Micro-credentials are a way for teachers to personalize professional development and demonstrate their teaching competencies.
Asset (Strength) Based Pedagogies for Quality Holistic Learning
- Online Teaching Tools
- Trauma-Informed Practices
- Education in Displacement
Available in English, French and Arabic
Completion time: 3 to 5 hours
Course participation certificate, micro-credential opportunity
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This open, self-paced course, Asset (Strength) Based Pedagogies for Quality Holistic Learning, was designed by teachers for teachers, especially those working with refugee and vulnerable learners around the world.
Introduction to Social and Emotional Learning & Psychosocial Support for Quality Holistic Learning
- Online Teaching Tools
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
- Education in Displacement
Available in English, French and Arabic
Completion time: 3 to 5 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This open, self-paced course, Introduction to Social-Emotional Learning & Psychosocial Support for Quality Holistic Learning, was designed with a team of teachers working with refugee and vulnerable learners in Niger.
Supporting Refugee SLIFE: Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education
- Online Teaching Tools
- Trauma-Informed Practices
- Education in Displacement
Available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic
Completion time: 8 to 10 hours
Micro-credential opportunities
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This course was developed in 2017-2018. It aims to support educators working with Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE), including some learners of refugee backgrounds.
Includes:
29 min 33 sec of video
34 supplemental resources
Micro-credentials for quality holistic learning
- Online Teaching Tools
- Digital Pedagogies
- Education in Displacement
Available in English (with support in French and Arabic)
Completion time: variable
Certification: Digital badge
Free of costs
Credits: in some districts/systems
The Center for Professional Learning at Childhood Education International has created a series of professional development opportunities centered on refugee education and quality holistic learning. Micro-credentials are competency-based assessments of an educator’s areas of expertise. They are rigorous, self-paced professional development opportunities for educators who are looking for PD that builds from their own context. Micro-credentials are a way for teachers to personalize professional development and demonstrate their teaching competencies.
Child Well-Being and Protection
- Online Teaching Tools
- Trauma-Informed Practices
- Education in Displacement
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
Available in English
Completion time: 6 to 10 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This short self-paced course will introduce you to key concepts in child well-being and protection that are important to anyone working with children and which are presented, in this course, in the context of teaching and learning. Includes: 2 min 26 sec of video, 7 supplemental resources, Certificate of completion.
Moving My Course Online
- Online Teaching tools
- Trauma-Informed Practices
- Education in Displacement
Available in English
Completion time: 6 to 10 hours
Certificate: n/a
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
A self-paced micro-course that supports new online teachers with the design, development, and implementation of an online module, workshop, course, or program by introducing instructional processes and strategies for online learning.
CE International's Introduction to Trauma-Informed Practices
- Online Teaching Tools
- Trauma-Informed Practices
- Education in Displacement, Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
Available in English
Completion time: 6 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This short self-paced course will introduce you to key concepts in child well-being and protection that are important to anyone working with children and which are presented, in this course, in the context of teaching and learning. Includes: 2 min 26 sec of video, 7 supplemental resources.
Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Early Childhood Development
- Distance Teaching
- Digital Pedagogy
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
Available in English
Completion time: 4 to 5 hours
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This course is designed for early childhood education (ECE) teachers, caregivers, and providers working with children between the ages of 0-8 and their parents. This course is intended to help ECE educators understand the importance of safe and secure learning environments for young children and their parents. Learning objectives include: Gaining an improved understanding of the importance of early childhood for future learning and success aligned with holistic development to promote well-being. Describe the changes in brain development that take place during early childhood. Understand the impact early childhood trauma has on children’s physical, cognitive, and emotional development. Explain the importance and benefits of developing an early childhood education program that provides a safe, secure environment with caring adults to support young children. Develop teaching strategies that address a child’s complete physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being.
Handbook for Holistic Learning: Implementing the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in Kenya
- Online Teaching Tools
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
- Education in Displacement
- Trauma-informed practices
Available in English
Completion time: variable
Course participation certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
The Handbook for Holistic Learning supports teachers’ professional learning within communities of practice, such as peer-to-peer Teacher Learning Circles (TLCs), in Kenya. The handbook is an introduction to SEL and supports the implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) as an integrated and complementary pedagogical set for holistic learning.
SEAMEO
SEL Workshop Packets
- Online Teaching Tools
- Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Psychosocial support (PSS)
- Education in Displacement
- Trauma-informed practices
Available in English, French and Arabic
Completion time: variable
Certificate: n/a
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
This material supports the first section of the Introduction to Social and Emotional Learning Workshop, delivered by the Quality Holistic Learning Project. At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to: Recognize the effects of stress and trauma on student learning and social behavior; Recognize the role of PSS in promoting student resilience in crisis contexts; Distinguish different psychosocial support needs; Classify needs and interventions according to the pyramid of PSS-SEL interventions; Propose appropriate and applicable PSS interventions in your own context.
Shifting Higher Ed Strategies in a Post-COVID world and resources catalog
- Distance Teaching
- Online Teaching Tools
- Online Course Planning & Design
Available in English
Completion time: variable
Certificate: n/a
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
Blackboard offers teachers, teacher educators, and teacher education institutions a selection of facilitated courses: K-12 Blackboard Collaborate is a synchronous platform that provides teachers with the capabilities to bring the classroom into the hands of students in a style that is like a face-to-face classroom but in a virtual environment. ‘Blended Learning and Online Strategies for K-12’ provides teachers with strategies for designing an online classroom environment, whether delivered in a blended classroom or a fully online one. ‘K-12 Blackboard Learn Ultra’ provides teachers with the key features of best practices for creating a digital classroom.
A two-part webinar series on shifting strategies in higher education for a post-COVID world.
It will cover the impact on institutions, current trends—and counter-trends—in the higher ed response, and how schools can respond in four key areas to help mitigate the impact and plan for the long-term success of their students and staff.
Teacher training course to support children with disabilities
- Online Teaching Tools
- Disabilities support
- Learners with disabilities in emergencies
Available in English, Bahasa Indonesia, Dzongkha, Khmer, Lao, Tetum, Thai and Vietnamese
Completion time: 21 to 24 hours
Certificate: Completion Certificate
Free of costs
Credits: n/a
The online teacher training course was piloted in four GPE ESPIG- eligible countries in Asia (Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Timor-Leste). The course is now open for teachers in the region and beyond with additional languages: Thai and Vietnamese. The main course is to provide teachers with training in the following areas:
- Stress management and psychosocial support
- Utilization of different assistive technologies
- Developing emergency response
- Continuity of learning
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