Connected University - Classroom Connect, in addition to featuring a variety of online learning resources and in-person conferences and workshops, offers Connected University, an online professional development community with courses, software tutorials, and instructional support. CU boasts more than 80,000 subscribers and over 65 classes, ranging from guided courses on educational leadership to self-paced "how to" lessons on Internet searching. Participants can earn continuing education units or graduate credit.
eTeaching Institute - Offering tools for building virtual classes and schools, eClassroom also has some ready-made classes in designing and managing online courses, providing an opportunity for instructors to "learn by doing" as they use the online environment to explore effective approaches to teaching online.
Educational Impact - In addition to working with districts and states to create customized programs, Educational Impact delivers a variety of online professional development classes on topics such as safe schools, brain-based research, and educational leadership. The courses integrate streaming video case studies, live chats, discussions, handouts, transcripts, and assessments that determine whether participants have completed a lesson successfully.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston - HRW currently offers two online courses on reading instruction (grades 6-8) and literacy (grades 6-12)
McGraw-Hill - McGraw-Hill's online class for K-6 educators, "Mathematics, YES!" can be taken for university credit.
Metacourse - Like eClassroom, Metacourse is supplementing its primary business--developing tools for designing online learning experiences--with online classes on facilitating and creating such learning experiences.
OnlineLearning.net - Part of the Online Higher Education division of Sylvan Learning Systems, OnlineLearning.net offers more than 1,700 online courses for accreditation and graduate level credit.
PBS TeacherLine - PBS TeacherLine helps lead visitors to online professional development opportunities, including facilitated modules by local PBS stations as well as chats, resource links, portfolio tools, and a virtual math academy with self-paced lessons.
TC Innovations - A Columbia Teachers College initiative, TC Innovations offers the New Teacher Academy, five online seminars that blend facilitated group meetings and online coursework to help new teachers enhance classroom effectiveness and improve student performance. TC Innovations trains local district facilitators to manage the academy and works closely with the district to tailor the curriculum.
Teachscape - Built around videotaped teaching cases, Teachscape offers professional development opportunities with both in-person and online learning activities in several curriculum areas. The first of these is mathematics, for which Teachscape has collaborated with the Concord Consortium to develop multimedia case studies that show real teachers implementing standards-based mathematics instuction in their classrooms. Additional course in science and language arts are under development.
TeachStream - The Video Journal of Education is in the process of revising and relaunching its TeachStream web site, featuring bite-sized videotaped case studies, commentary, and assessments. Schools purchase a customized set of videos, choosing either online delivery or CDs.
Thirteen Online - Thirteen Ed Online's "Concept to Classroom" is a series of free workshops on such topics as inquiry-based learning, teaching to academic standards, WebQuests, using the Internet for teaching, and making family connections. Each class has text, a discussion area, and mini case studies presented in both video and text format. Letters and information for administrators in a teacher's own district are designed to help local districts be aware of their own CEU credits for completion.
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