

Our Courses

Christianity & Ecology
There is a need for broader literacy and deeper knowledge of the world’s religions and their ecological contributions. This course is designed as a gateway to the rich ecological dimensions of the Christian religious tradition. We delve into unique contributions from Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christianity, exploring views on and relationship with the natural world.
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18 hours
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English

Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change
Resilient teaching is the ability to facilitate learning experiences that are designed to be adaptable to fluctuating conditions and disruptions. This teaching ability can be seen as an outcome of a design approach that attends to the relationship between learning goals and activities, and the environments they are situated in. Resilient teaching approaches take into account how a dynamic learning context may require new forms of interactions between teachers, students, content, and tools.
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Self Paced
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20 hours
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English

Public Speaking with Canva
By the end of this project, you will explore Public Speaking using Canva to create a structure for an efficient speech to present your projects or ideas. You’ll be able to explore models and structure to feel confident in your public speaking competence and implement those skills in your life during dissertations, while pitching to your clients or while performing a TED talk, why not.
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3 hours
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English

Decision-Making: Blending Art & Science
Why do smart people sometimes think they are right when they are very, very wrong? Our brains are designed to make quick decisions, and sometimes we miss out on what’s really going on. Knowing this, Professor Sydney Finkelstein walks you through the neuroscience behind decision-making, and teaches you to make conscious decisions that are right for you at work and in life. By teaching you to reflect and move forward even better than before, Professor Finkelstein will help you to be the best you possibly can at whatever you do.
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Self Paced
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19 hours
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English

Learn to Teach Java: Inheritance and Recursion
Learn to program with Inheritance and Recursion in Java, and prepare to teach others using the free, online interactive CS Awesome textbook. In this course for teachers we'll guide you both in learning Java concepts and skills but also in how to effectively teach those to your students. This course will support you in teaching the Advanced Placement Computer Science A course or a similar introductory university-level programming course. We'll cover the Java concepts of inheritance and recursion, as covered in the APCS A Units 9 and 10.
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11 hours
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English

Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia
How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course will explore greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. We will look at the relationships between these levels and give many practical examples of the complexities and solutions across the levels. Scandinavia, a pioneering place advancing sustainability and combating climate change, is a unique starting point for learning about greening the economy.
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15 hours
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English

Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom
Welcome to Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom! This course will help you apply strategies to the critical areas of K-12 virtual instruction to significantly impact virtual education. We will examine the pitfalls beginning teachers run into and learn how to overcome them by focusing on the fundamentals that have the greatest impact on student learning in a blended or online environment.
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Self Paced
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9 hours
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English

Online teaching: Using Zoom to connect with learners
Using cloud-based video conferencing platforms such as Zoom has become, for many people, a part of everyday life. This is particularly true for learners of all ages who are now spending more time online connecting with their peers or studying remotely.
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Self Paced
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17 hours
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English

Understanding Plants - Part I: What a Plant Knows
For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant diversity and form—from Charles Darwin’s early fascination with stems and flowers to Seymour Krelborn’s distorted doting in Little Shop of Horrors. This course intends to present an intriguing and scientifically valid look at how plants themselves experience the world—from the colors they see to the sensations they feel.
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11 hours
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English

Creating Engaging Presentations with Mentimeter
By the end of this project, you will be able to use Mentimeter to create live polls, quizzes and more in order to check for student understanding. Whether you are teaching online or in person, Mentimeter has the tools you need to engage and assess your class. Once you are confident with using Mentimeter, you will be able to train your students as well. This will create greater independence and mastery of technology that will allow your students to share their learning in new ways. *You will need a free trial of Mentimeter for this project.
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3 hours
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English

Support Interactive Learning with Genially
By the end of this project, you will be ready to engage your students using the interactive learning opportunites that Genially provides. Genially is “the tool that brings content to life.” Instead of simply showing an image, Genially allows you to map out a learning journey for your students. With a single image or video, students will have access to endless information that you, the teacher, have added using Genially.
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1 hour
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English

Improve your productivity and performance with Canva
By the end of this project, you will create printables that you can use to structure your day, improve your productivity and enhance your performance. You will be able to incorporate a color scheme, images, and other design elements for aesthetically pleasing and value added business marketing collateral.
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3 hours
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English

Constructivism and Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education
This course is designed to help participants examine the implications of constructivism for learning and teaching in science, mathematics, and technology focused areas. Course readings, discussions, and assignments will examine constructivist views of learning, research on students' ideas and idea-based interactions, research on instructional approaches taking student ideas into account, and challenges in implementing constructivist perspectives in instruction.
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10 hours
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English

Teaching the Violin and Viola: Creating a Healthy Foundation
Join us as we explore the fundamental principles and early stages of teaching violin and viola through a series of engaging video lectures and lesson demonstrations, including: 1) Master classes with some of the world’s top string pedagogues, 2) Individual lesson demos of teaching violin/viola set up, left and right hand technique and pieces from the early violin/viola repertoire, 3) Group lesson demos of teaching music theory, ear training and fun activities that encourage good playing habits, and 4) A “field trip” to the violin shop, where we will outfit a new beginning student with a proper
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13 hours
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English

Cybersecurity Awareness and Innovation
It’s not you, it’s me! What’s going on? This course empowers students, professionals and the wider community to deal with cybersecurity attacks and risks focused on identity management and it is an introduction to the upcoming full course focused on cybersecurity awareness. It provides a practical overview of challenging issues like identity credentials management and security, e-mail threats and web impersonation, or web hacking.
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7 hours
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English

Tinkering Fundamentals: Circuits
The Tinkering Fundamentals course will offer educators and enthusiasts an opportunity to develop a practice of tinkering and making. We see tinkering as a serious endeavor—one that is generalizable across content and especially good at interweaving disciplines in a way that leads to complex projects and individualized learning opportunities. Tinkering has recently been introduced into the educational field as a potential driver of creativity, excitement, and innovation in science learning. It is seen by many as an effective means to engage in exploring STEM concepts, practices and phenomena.
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7 hours
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English

Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom
Explore how to integrate works of art into your classroom with inquiry-based teaching methods used by museum educators.
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12 hours
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English

Teaching in University Science Laboratories (Developing Best Practice)
This course is developed to improve the effectiveness of laboratory classes in higher education. It aims to support teachers to improve their teaching skills for active learning in university science laboratory courses. It will show you how laboratory sessions can differ with respect to their aim and expected learning outcomes, how to engage students for learning and how to cope with their different levels of pre-knowledge and experience and probe their understanding.
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15 hours
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English

Hacking Exercise For Health. The surprising new science of fitness.
Renowned exercise physiologists Martin Gibala and Stuart Phillips of McMaster University teach the surprising new science of cardio fitness and strength-building—and then provide you with hacks to get fit and strong (and healthy!) in less time than you ever thought possible. What’s the right mix of exercise between cardio and strength? How do you know if you’re working out hard enough? What’s better, heavy or light weights?
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23 hours
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English

Finance for Everyone: Markets
Markets begins with one of the most common and important elements of the financial system – interest rates. You will learn why interest rates have always been a key barometer in determining the value of everything. You will explore the changing influence of interest rates; the impact of interest rates on consumption, investment and economic growth; and the bizarre realities of negative interest rates. Markets explains how interest rates change the value of all financial instruments, highlighting the role of the bond and stock markets that have toppled empires.
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11 hours
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English

Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Introduction to Student Assessment
The Foundations of Teaching for Learning programme is for anyone who is teaching, or who would like to teach, in any subject and any context - be it at school, at home or in the workplace. With dynamic lessons taught by established and respected professionals from across the Commonwealth, this eight course programme will see you develop and strengthen your skills in teaching, professionalism, assessment, and more. As you carry on through the programme, you will find yourself strengthening not only your skills, but your connection with colleagues across the globe.
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13 hours
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English

Innovative Teaching with ChatGPT
Despite what you may have heard, ChatGPT offers exciting possibilities for supporting innovative teaching and personalized education. This course provides practical techniques that any educator, from K-12 to higher education, can use to help support their teaching. No experience with ChatGPT, prompt engineering, or Generative AI is required. In this course, you will learn how to do exciting things to support your teaching and student learning, such as: 1.
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2 hours
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English

Launching Your Music Career
Launching a career in music is an exhilarating and transformative journey that requires passion, dedication, and a strong commitment to artistic growth. This course is designed to equip musicians with the knowledge and skills to navigate the business side of their music career. This course covers a range of essential topics that will empower musicians to take control of their artistic journey and thrive in the industry. In this course, you will gain invaluable insights into effectively managing a successful gigging career.
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8 hours
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English

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics
This course gives you context and first-hand experience with the two major catalyzers of the computational science revolution: big data and artificial intelligence. With more than 99% of all mediated information in digital format and with 98% of the world population using digital technology, humanity produces an impressive digital footprint. In theory, this provides unprecedented opportunities to understand and shape society. In practice, the only way this information deluge can be processed is through using the same digital technologies that produced it.
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12 hours
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English

Pixel Art for Video Games
This course is aimed to give you the tools and knowledge you need to start creating simple art for video games made in the Unity game engine. Through the aesthetic of pixel art we will explore artistic principals like shape language, color theory, and composition as well as show you a step by step workflow for creating assets that you can use to make your own games. The course is broken into 4 main modules, props, environments, characters, and animation.
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9 hours
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English