This introductory course is designed to help practitioners develop a site plan for offering distance or blended learning to adult learners. It is also a prerequisite for IDEAL 102: Instructional Issues or IDEAL 102: Program Administration.
This course is free to IDEAL Consortium Basic Professional Development-level member states. Facilitation is available for a fee.
This course is also available to any organization for a fee. Contact edtech@worlded.org for pricing and for more information about how to set up a section of this course for your group.
Distance or blended learning teachers who have some experience teaching online will spend four weeks focusing on how to best support learners. Each participant develops a case study describing an instructional challenge. Together the cohort discusses each of the case studies, building a "community of practice" that remains available as a resource after the course is done. Through the discussion, each participant arrives at a few ideas to pilot. After a month of piloting, each teacher reports on their success in a webinar.
Suggested Prerequisite: IDEAL 101: Foundations of Distance and Digital Education
This course is free to IDEAL Consortium Basic-level member states. Facilitation is available for a fee.
This course is also available to any organization for a fee. Contact edtech@worlded.org for pricing and for more information about how to set up a section of this course for your group.
This course is for program managers who have had some experienced with distance or blended learning. The class is built around relevant articles and developing a case study, which the class discusses. It is an opportunity for program managers to share insight and information with each other. Through interaction with assigned literature and discussion of their case studies, each participant arrives at a few ideas to pilot to solve the issue described in the case study. After a month of piloting they report back on their success in a webinar. Participants will also have the opportunity to gather information and develop narrative text that they can use in grant applications and state reporting.
Suggested Prerequisite: IDEAL 101: Foundations of Distance and Digital Education
This course is free to IDEAL Consortium Basic Professional Development-level member states. Facilitation is available for a fee.
This course is also available to any organization for a fee. Contact edtech@worlded.org for pricing and for more information about how to set up a section of this course for your group.
Distance and digital education teachers with some prior experience will spend four weeks learning about how to evaluate online resources for use in distance and/or digital learning. Through several readings and discussions, the cohort will create a rubric for future resource evaluation and then pilot its use with one new learning resource they hope to integrate into their distance and/or digital instruction.
Suggested Prerequisite: IDEAL 101: Foundations of Distance and Digital Education
This course is free to IDEAL Consortium Basic Professional Development-level member states. Facilitation is available for a fee.
This course is also available to any organization for a fee. Contact edtech@worlded.org for pricing and for more information about how to set up a section of this course for your group.
This course aims to provide an opportunity for HyFlex teachers to share challenges, possible solutions, and resources with each other. The course includes reading and videos, discussion boards, the use of ed tech tools such as Padlet and Jamboard, and also has three optional live class webinars. Alternatively, the course provides online asynchronous options for those who are unable or choose not to join the live class webinars.
This course is free to IDEAL Consortium Basic Professional Development-level member states. Facilitation is available for a fee.
This course is also available to any organization for a fee. Contact edtech@worlded.org for pricing and for more information about how to set up a section of this course for your group.
As more programs are offering some range of in-person and remote learning options, instructors are challenged to determine how to strategically leverage technology in manageable ways to enhance and expand student learning. The goal of this course is to design strategic, replicable edtech routines that can be part of instructors’ regular practice while developing students’ digital literacy.
This course is free to IDEAL Consortium Basic Professional Development-level member states. Facilitation is available for a fee.
This course is also available to any organization for a fee. Contact edtech@worlded.org for pricing and for more information about how to set up a section of this course for your group.
This course is designed to be a step-by-step facilitated experience to help you walk through the considerations needed to run your own EdTech Maker Space project - from defining clear goals for what resources will be generated from your project to how you will structure participant engagement to how you will evaluate participant work and share out your project's outcomes with the world.
This course is free to IDEAL Consortium Basic Professional Development-level member states. Facilitation is available for a fee.
This course is also available to any organization for a fee. Contact edtech@worlded.org for pricing and for more information about how to set up a section of this course for your group.
This crash course provides adult educators with a foundational understanding of educational technology (edtech) and its integration into teaching practices. Participants will learn to define edtech, explore various examples, and understand effective strategies for integrating technology into their instructional routines. By the end of this course, educators will be equipped to identify key considerations and set out on their journey of thoughtful, strategic edtech integration.
Contact edtech@worlded.org for more information about how to enroll in this course.
This crash course introduces educators to HyFlex (hybrid-flexible) instruction
which is a course delivery model that provides three modes of instruction
(in-person, online synchronous, and online asynchronous) and allows
learners the flexibility to choose which mode works best for them.You'll learn more about what HyFlex is, explore the benefits, and explore considerations for developing a HyFlex class.
Contact edtech@worlded.org for more information about how to enroll in this course.
This crash course offers a rapid introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER), focusing on the distinction between free and open resources through the lens of the 5Rs (Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute). Participants will learn about different Creative Commons (CC) licensing restrictions and gain the skills to evaluate educational resources for key OER components. By the end of this course, educators will be empowered to make informed decisions when selecting and utilizing OER in their teaching practice.
Contact edtech@worlded.org for more information about how to enroll in this course.