UN Millennium Development Goals e-learning materials

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of these e-learning materials, participants will have learnt about the UN's Millennium Development Indicators, found out how to extract international macro data from ESDS International and carry out simple data analysis. In addition, learners will have an increased understanding of what data is available at ESDS International and the potential of this data for use in their own research or teaching.

Learners can access these materials directly from the ESDS International web site and work through the material in a way that suits their own learning needs - there is no right or wrong way to use the UN MDG e-learning materials.

The following learning objectives have been applied in the creation of these materials:

• Guide to ESDS International:
  • Learn about the origins of the international data service and its role within the wider Economic and Social Data Service.
  • Understand the basic conceptual differences between aggregate (macro) and survey (micro) data.
  • Learn about the organisations that produce international databanks and their role in the UN MDGs.
  • Have a clearer understanding of the topics, geographies and time periods covered by international datasets included in ESDS International's data portfolio.
• Guide to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals:
  • Understand the origins of the UN MDGs.
  • Be aware of each of the goals, targets and indicators and understand how these relate to each other.
  • Learn about the concepts, definitions, implementation and sources of data for the 60 official MDG indicators.
  • Understand how progress toward the MDGs is measured.
• Activities (all also available as e-tutorials):
  • Learn how to search the ESDS International data portfolio (Activity).
  • Discover how to access UN MDG data using Beyond 20/20 (UK FE and HE only) (Activity).
  • Learn how to cite international data. (Activity).
  • Learn how to access the MDG data using UN website (Open Access). (Activity).
  • Discover how to create a visualisation showing progress toward the MDGs. (Activity).
  • Learn how to find the data source of a particular indicator. (Activity).
• Links and Resources:
  • Explore games highlighting the MDGs.
  • Learn what visualisation interfaces to the MDGs are available.
  • Discover 'what you can do' as an individual to help achieve or raise awareness of the MDGs.
  • Explore links to related MDG web sites.