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This course is aimed at health care workers in the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK who need to understand how to recognise and intervene with a patient whose physical condition deteriorates.

Determine Your Readiness for Doctoral Studies is a course for individuals interested in discovering what it takes to complete a doctorate.

Determine your readiness for completing an MBA degree.

Determine Your Readiness for Graduate Studies is a course for individuals interested in discovering what it takes to complete a graduate degree.

Low-income populations are at high risk for diet-related diseases, and many rely each month on charitable food assistance. Thus, it is imperative that food banks consider the nutritional quality of the foods they procure and distribute.

This course presents real-world mathematical models to help participants understand the notions and efficiency of differential equations and their symmetries.

Are you an instructor trying to shake things up a bit? Join us for this Australian BOSTES endorsed professional development course on differentiation and how it can be used to enhance classroom instruction and learning.

What’s in your digital teaching toolbox? Do you have the tools you need to reach 21st century learners? This course will introduce you to digital technologies and show you how to integrate them into your classroom/webspace.

Digital Media One is a four-week online course designed for students who want to learn digital media. This may include artists, designers, or photographers who would like to build a Web site or Web portfolio to showcase their work, as well as students who would like to learn more about the curriculum of Peninsula College

Our course help in-service teachers from Sweden and Norway to integrate new media and technologies into today’s K-12 learning environments. Detta är en öppen kurs som hjälper lärare att kunna använda och förstå digitala verktyg och medier.

Ready to explore web-based tools to ignite student engagement in your K-12 classroom? This course examines various web tools and teaches the basics for integrating them into the classroom. Each week we will explore different instructional methods and utilize emerging technology tools to develop presentations, posters, binders, stories, and scavenger hunts. We will investigate the uses and good practices for both teacher-led and student-driven activities through the use of free web-based tools like Prezi, Animoto, Glogster, and many more.

Ready to explore Web-based tools to ignite student engagement in your K-12 classroom? This course examines various Web tools, reasons for using these tools in the classroom, and encourages you to experiment with the tools. Each week we will explore different instructional methods and utilize emerging technology to develop presentations, posters, organization tools, stories, and scavenger hunts. We will investigate uses and good practices for both teacher-led and student-driven activities through the use of free Web-based tools like Prezi, Wordle, Padlet, Voki, and more!

Learn to manage your Digital Self effectively in just six weeks. This course is designed to help you to progress from a tech savvy internet user into a digitally literate one, by coaching you how to improve your ability to use technology for management of your life including learning, work, and more.

Say “no more” to online course designs that create isolated and unsupported learning environments. This course enables those involved in delivering or supporting eLearning activities to experience and explore what it means to be an eLearner, as well as explore the current evidence and research into this important and developing area.

If you wish to effectively approach disability from a human rights perspective, this course is for you. Drawing from expertise and examples at the global and national level, it provides essential knowledge of worldwide standards, practices and challenges.

This self-paced course provides participants with the opportunity to explore, assess, and document learning mastered through a variety of life experiences.

This self-paced course provides participants with the opportunity to explore, assess, and document learning mastered through a variety of life experiences.

This free five-module online introductory course gives you the essential concepts, techniques, and skills to effectively work with data and produce compelling data stories under tight deadlines. Comprised of video lectures, tutorials, assignments, readings, and discussion forums, this course is open to anyone in the world with an Internet connection who wants to tell stories with data. Our media environment is increasingly saturated with data, including large collections of leaked documents published by Wikileaks, public databases about lobbying or government spending, and “big data” from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. As a result, many media organisations seek data-savvy journalists to help them process this information to understand what is in it, to identify what is important, and to provide insights to readers in a compelling way. Modules: 1. Data journalism in the newsroom, with instructor Simon Rogers 2. Finding data to support stories, with instructor Paul Bradshaw 3. Finding story ideas with data analysis, with instructor Steve Doig 4. Dealing with messy data, with instructor Nicolas Kayser-Bril 5. Telling stories with visualization, with instructor Alberto Cairo Meet the instructors: Recommended reading: The Data Journalism Handbook Sponsors: Google; Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands; African Media Initiative; The World Bank Advisory board: Justin Arenstein (African Media Initiative); Josh Hatch (The Chronicle of Higher Education); Scott Klein (ProPublica); Angélica Peralta Ramos (La Nacion, Argentina); Aron Pilhofer (The New York Times); Guido Romeo (Wired Italy); Sascha Venohr (Zeit Online) Organisers: The European Journalism Centre is a non-profit international foundation with the remit to improve, strengthen, and underpin journalism and the news media in the interest of a functioning democratic public sphere. This mission has two main aspects: safeguarding, enhancing, and future-proofing quality journalism in Europe and the world and media freedom in emerging and developing countries. Data Driven Journalism is one of the leading initiatives for training, resources and networking in the area of data journalism. Founded in 2010, the programme is dedicated to accelerating the diffusion and improving the quality of data journalism around the world. We run the website DataDrivenJournalism.net as well as the School of Data Journalism, and produced the Data Journalism Handbook. For more information about this course, please visit the course website.

Project-based lab course on advanced skills and strategies for integrating technology into the PreK-16 classroom. Optional credit offered.

Learn how to interact professionally and increase productivity via email.