Want A New CPD Challenge in 2017?
10 Online Learning Courses to Inspire You ...
A new year welcomes the opportunity to embrace new ideas, refresh your thinking and reach for new goals. Coursera and FutureLearn are great places to access a host of free online learning courses via MOOCS .
In my experience, the way MOOCS are set up really benefits adult learners and enables you to:
- study at your own pace
- fit learning around your life & work schedule
- dip into a range of new topics & collate resources that can be used in your own professional practice
- connect & collaborate with fellow students online from around the world.
- access fee free courses at established & international universities.
Have You Set Yourself Learning Goals for 2017?
Are YOU :
Planning to enhance your professional understanding and skills portfolio?
Do you have some courses that you'd like to recommend to others?
Part of a learning network/organisation which you think would be a useful #connection point for other professionals?
I'd love to see if we can get some Twitter chatter going about this. Please JOIN the conversation by tagging #LearningGoals to @Araidigi, or leave comments on the blog post.
Here is my Top 10 picks for courses starting from January!
University of London & Institute of Education, UK.
What future for education?
University of Aberdeen, UK.
Nutrition and Wellbeing
State University of New York, USA.
Metaliteracy: Empowering in a Connected World
What Future for Education?
Through this course you will start to critically examine your own ideas about education, teaching and learning. The critique will be developed through engagement with theories and ideas developed through educational research.
Nutrition and Wellbeing
Understand the scientific basis of human nutrition, current nutrition concepts and controversies. Draws on world-leading nutrition experts to demystify the complex & often conflicting messages we hear about diet and health from the media.
Metaliteracy: Empowering in a Connected World
This course prepares learners to empower themselves through metaliteracy in a connected world. Metaliteracy promotes critical thinking and self-reflection to consume, create, and share information with others.
University of London, SOAS University of London., UK.
Design Thinking for Innovation
University of Amsterdam, NL.
Quantitative Methods
National STEM Learning Centre, UK.
Differentiating for Learning in STEM Teaching
Understanding Research Methods (UOL/SOAS)
Demystifying research and research methods. Course outlines the fundamentals of doing research. It places the student experience at the centre of our endeavours by engaging learners in a range of robust & challenging discussions & exercises.
Quantitative Methods (Uni Amst)
Principles of solid scientific methods in the behavioral & social sciences. Learn to separate sloppy science from solid research! Covers fundamental principles of science, history & Sc. philosophy, research designs, measurement, sampling, ethics.
Differentiating for Learning in STEM Teaching
Designed for STEM teachers in primary, secondary schools, & FE. this course will help you improve your understanding & use of Differentiating for Learning (DfL) within the STEM subjects.
University of York, UK.
Becoming a Digital Citizen: Intro. to Digital Society
University of Glasgow, UK.
Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World
University of Michigan, USA.
Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
Becoming a Digital Citizen: Intro. to Digital Society
The course, will investigate and explore the concept of the digital society. We’ll look at how personal values and ethical judgments shape our online participation, and how new technologies can be applied to solve some of the problems we might face.
Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World
Explores how people’s language practice & personal connection people have to the language(s) they speak, provoke important philosophical & pedagogical questions around the ways we form relationships, business relations & view the world around us.
Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
This course aims to teach everyone the basics of programming computers using Python. We cover the basics of how one constructs a program from a series of simple instructions in Python.
Design Thinking for Innovation
Today innovation is everyone's business. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, in a government role, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less.