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Do you have British Army nurses in your family tree? Are you interested in the history of Army nursing in the UK? If so, this is the course for you.

This six-week course is packed with essential information to maximize academic research processes. Current and prospective college students will learn strategies and best practices for using digital information to support academic work efficiently, effectively, and ethically. Course materials include links to open-access scholarly repositories, data archives, and other materials that are useful to all lifelong learners, regardless of your location in the universe.

America’s most iconic cities. Sponsored by Suffolk University, The History of Boston is a unique online offering that will help students learn about the city’s past, present and future. Taught by Dr. Robert Allison, chair of the University’s History Department, the course is the first and only MOOC based on a city and its history.

This MOOC is designed for teachers who may be interested in creating their own STEAM CAMP based upon a proven model created by Jennifer Miller and Sandra Wozniak. Their STEAM CAMP incorporated NASA MMS Challenge curriculum, authored by Jennifer Miller, Sandra Wozniak, and Tom Chambers, along with other NASA MMS fabrication resources. To be successful in this course, participants should plan to spend approximately 3 hours per week completing activities and interacting with others. The primary audience for this course are those who wish to conduct their own STEAM Camp or after school STEAM program. This MOOC consists of five one-week modules full of NASA MMS student resources that can be used during STEAM related educational experiences. Join the conversation on Twitter, too! #STEAMMOOC

This course is designed to encourage educators to develop new creative habits that foster personal learning networks, content creation, and innovative learning practices that embrace curiosity, failure and reflection. Each week a new creative habit is explored through the examination and understanding of one’s own relationship to creativity. The goal of this class will be to increase awareness of personal creativity, to encourage new learning connections in an online environment, to enhance self- expression, and to increase confidence in the use of digital tools through project based activities. Participants are encouraged to share and interact to facilitate a connectivist attitude, get feedback from their peers, and to forge meaningful and personalized ideas about what living a creative life is all about. Educators will be encouraged to tap into their own creative potential while drawing on the synergy created by participating in a creative learning community. Join us in exploring the power and richness of creativity in our lives. Our hope is that participants will not only draw new meaning and strength from this process, but in turn will provide active and empowering contributions in their own learning communities.

This course covers the major legal issues facing academic administrators with regard to today's college students. Topics include: admissions; financial aid; student activities; intercollegiate athletics, academic standing, probation, and dismissal; alcohol and drugs; student-to-student harassment, discrimination, hazing, and violence; physical, mental, and learning disabilities; privacy rights; intellectual property matters, including music downloading, file sharing, and related copyright concerns. Required materials: Handbook for Student Law for Higher Education Administrators 2d ed., by James Ottavio Castagnera Paperback and hardback editions available from Amazon. Approximate cost: $40 There is no ebook available for this text.

Sometimes, it’s what goes unsaid that is the real story. This interactive course focuses on how health professionals, and wider society, can address weight bias and stigma in obesity and what this might mean for how we address this complex problem.

As educators and learners of foreign language(s), we want our students to be proficient and competent in a target language. The way technology is used in a foreign language class has a significant impact and influence on the success of our students. If you are a foreign language educator passionate about learning how to use technology in your class, this course if for you! This three-week course will require a time commitment of approximately three to five hours each week (to earn the certificate of completion). The first two weeks will be dedicated to discussion and assignments and week three will be dedicated to a final project. This course will provide Web sites and programs that may be used in traditional and online foreign language classes. The focus is placed on all skills, especially speaking and listening.

This course revolves around the work of revising writing, learning, and engaging with language and community. You will explore who you are as a learner as you write about yourself and your language use, as well as consider who you are as a communicator as you critique texts, persuade audiences, and collaborate with others. We've designed this course to help you revise how you write and to help you collect a toolkit of effective reading, writing, and learning strategies. Each of the four modules integrates academic and social contexts (e.g., Facebook, ELI peer review application) to encourage a wide application of the skills you acquire during the course. The skills you will practice in this course (like narration, summary, etc.) are fairly typical for writing classes at many U.S. universities; however, our course focuses on you as a writer and thinker. Recognizing specific learning and communication practices and considering ways to employ them can make you more successful in future coursework and in all communication.

Offered by Sonoma State University and taught by Dr. Paul Porter and Entrepreneur-in-Residence Mark Nelson, this course highlights the role of entrepreneurial thinking in contemporary education. Based on core modules, it covers defining features of entrepreneurialism in education, including becoming an economic unit of one, overcoming obstacles and failing forward, rethinking risk, and building alignment with business-education connections. Join us for an exciting introduction to edupreneurialism!

This is an interdisciplinary course that introduces students to the study of the Ozarks through the arts, humanities, media, and social sciences. The course will explore such issues as regional heritage, cultural adaptation, and the survival of regional and cultural identity and folkways through comparison of Ozarks people and places with other cultural groups and regions.

This course provides prospective college students with a primer in college level reading, writing, and mathematics. Whether a student is preparing to take a standardized placement test, or simply wishing to determine and improve his or her readiness to handle college-level work, this course can help to build mastery and confidence. Students may choose to work at their own pace across all three subject areas, or to select individual content areas. Pretests will determine any learning deficits, which can then be mastered through self-paced learning modules. Not forgetting the importance of the human touch, this course is overseen by a trio of reading, writing, and mathematics professors who will be available to assist and encourage students along their journey to college readiness.

Mega Events: Inside the FIFA World Cup examines the World Cup, a global competition for national soccer teams held every four years. With soccer the most watched and played sport in the world, the World Cup is a global phenomenon with one billion viewers expected for the final game in Rio de Janeiro this July. This course will explore not only the sport of soccer and its organization, but the logistics and development of the event as Brazil prepares for the 2014 World Cup. Join us as we examine the many dimensions of the World Cup—history, culture, politics, business, urban planning—and learn that the FIFA World Cup is more than a game.

Learn how technical communication skills (writing, editing, research) apply to successful project management.

The world of work has changed and employees must be ready to change along with it. At the end of this class, students will know their role in creating/living the future of work and be able adapt, design, or redesign how they will work in the 21st century.

In this self-paced course you will learn about the threat a failing education system poses to US National Security and the urgent need for education reform.

Learn to think like a futurist! Futurism is not about predicting the future, but making informed decisions today that will impact future developments. The Emerging Future: Technology Issues and Trends MOOC offered by the School of Library and Information Science at San José State University provides the planning skills and technology trends needed to create your personal and organization’s future. Knowing who and what to watch will keep you informed on the latest technology issues and trends that will impact the future. The Emerging Future MOOC is a professional development opportunity designed for information professionals and those interested in the topic. The MOOC is not offered for academic credit. SJSU SLIS graduate students who participate in the MOOC will not receive credit toward their master's degrees. The technology landscape changes rapidly, and these changes have economic, social, and ethical significance for individuals, organizations, and the entire world. The Emerging Future: Technology Issues and Trends MOOC brings focus to the planning skills that are needed, the issues that are involved, and the current trends as we explore the potential impact of technological innovations. Participants will experience an interactive online learning environment via a wide range of tools and diverse materials (e.g., freely accessible readings, recorded presentations, and online videos), and they will have an opportunity to: Explore the current technological environment Become immersed in the literature and practices of current futurists Select appropriate resources to use in planning for new technologies. Discuss key impact factors and trends affecting our personal and global existence Engage with peers and instructors, heightening their learning and taking full advantage of this professional development opportunity. Earn badges and MOOC certification on completion of activities related to each of the modules.

This course will give both traditional classroom and virtual teachers resources for improving relationships and interactions with students. After reviewing research and current trends in learning and motivation theory, this course will allow teachers to think-aloud and practice with new tools within a caring community of instructors seeking to improve their classroom practices. Playlists of leveled readings, video lectures, and research-based curricular resources will assist course participants in applying their learning and getting ready for the start of a great school year. One instructor will offer the virtual teacher’s perspective, while the other will cover the traditional, brick and mortar classroom teacher’s viewpoint.

Art Fundamentals will address basic art and design skills in drawing and composition, principles of two-dimensional and human figure drawing. This course is specifically designed for high school students interested in exploring their creativity and developing foundational skills in art and design.

Under Common Core, all teachers need to be writing teachers. Unfortunately many History/Social Studies teachers have not had significant instruction and/or practice in historical writing. This course will help social studies teachers: identify the characteristics of high quality writing, improve argumentative writing, improve informative or explanatory writing, improve narrative writing, conduct rubric validation, and incorporate peer review and revision memos.