Welcome to Foundations of Virtual Instruction! This course will help you 'up' your game and develop the advanced skills and techniques that elude even some of the most experienced virtual teachers in the K-12 space. Examine pitfalls and learn how to overcome them by focusing on the fundamentals that have the most significant impact on student learning in a blended or online environment. When you complete this course, you will be able to: • Craft virtual learning experiences that align with your student's needs. • Set up a learning environment to get to know your students, and they get to know each other. • Use a variety of online tools to provide feedback and personalize the learning experience. • Identify at-risk students and employ effective strategies for teaching them. • Compare and contrast online and face-to-face learning communities. • Apply strategies to make virtual courses more human.

By the end of this project, you will be able to use Popplet as a teaching and learning tool with your students. Popplet allows users to create colourful graphic organizers complete with videos, hyperlinks, and more. Graphic organizers allow teachers to communicate information in a clear and organized manner, whether teaching online or in person. For students, graphic organizers are an essential step when planning writing and project ideas, presenting new information, and much more. As we work togther throughout this project, you will become a confident Popplet user, allowing your teaching and your student’s learning to thrive in new ways. *You will need a free trial of Popplet for this project.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an entrepreneur? To start new ventures, build and grow them, be your own boss, create good jobs for other people, make money, and change the world for the better? Do you dream about becoming an entrepreneur but worry that it may be too difficult, require more resources than you have, or involve too much responsibility? Do you fear you don’t have what it takes, or that you might fail not just once, but over and over again? In this course, developed at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and taught by Saras Sarasvathy (Paul M. Hammaker Professor in Business Administration), you will learn how effectual entrepreneurship helps overcome four obstacles people commonly face when they think about becoming an entrepreneur. We will not be going into the nitty gritty details of starting a new venture. Instead, we will explore the lived experiences of entrepreneurs around the world--people who have built for-profit, non-profit, and other kinds of ventures. You will learn from these expert entrepreneurs how to think and act effectually, co-create new possibilities from things already within your control, and tackle uncertainty without having to predict the future.

In this project, learners will create a stunning portfolio website using Weebly. They will learn important skills such as site setup, selecting and customizing an appropriate theme, choosing a site structure, working with elements, adding apps, publishing the site, and sharing it with others. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

This course will teach you how to use your written words to become more persuasive. You’ll learn creative ways to use syntax, effective techniques for telling stories, and a clever method for arranging a complex series of information. You’ll also get a chance to both professionalize your use of punctuation and add a bit of style and sophistication to how you craft everything from sentences to slogans. In addition, you’ll get access to a wide range of books and other resources you can use even after you finish the course. These include (1) the readings and exercises provided to the students who have taken the in-person version of this course at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago; (2) two digital libraries of excellent writing from a diverse collection of journalists, scientists, novelists, poets, historians, and entrepreneurs; and (3) a monthly “Good Sentences” email. Social media has only accelerated the ways in which we all must learn to use our writing to connect, compete, and create—sometimes all at once. So join us for this first course in a four-part series and experience the many benefits, both personal and professional, of becoming “good with words.”

By the end of this project, you will be fully confident in using the Storybird platform with your students. Storybird is a creative writing platform that boosts young learner’s writing skills. Complete with short writing courses and challenges, Storybird allows students complete engaging activities to build their skills and then publish their work in a digital book. From comics to picture books, Storybird has plenty of opportunities to engage young writers. Throughout this project, you will explore and practice the many opportunities offered through Storybird. *You will need a free Storybird trial account for this project. Also you will need a secondary email account to complete this project

Join us for an action-oriented online teacher professional development course! This course will teach participants how to identify and implement a local service-learning campaign using the Roots & Shoots program model. The service learning curriculum equips participants with teacher resources to discover the differences between service-learning and community service, and apply the Roots & Shoots model to help youth have a voice in identifying and addressing needs in their community. At Roots & Shoots, our goal is to develop compassionate leaders to make the world a better place for people, other animals and the environment. Help us achieve that goal! Complete the course and mentor young people to lead change in their communities using community mapping, collaborating with stakeholders, and designing practical solutions in the form of campaigns. Connect young people to Dr. Jane Goodall’s message of hope while facilitating a sense of empowerment that comes from helping others!

Playing to Your Strengths is designed for any professional individual striving to be more productive and more focused today than they were yesterday and those who want to make their greatest contributions at work and in life by embracing a strengths-based mindset. Based on the six-part film series Trombone Player Wanted from Marcus Buckingham, this 6-week course includes video demonstrations, practice simulations, a course guide, and reflection activities that will inspire you to identify your strengths and make them a vital and sustainable part of your everyday life. Leaning into the powerful story of a young boy who wants to make a change, this course centers on the metaphor of building your own orchestra, with each lesson serving as its own “Rehearsal” that allows you to: • LISTEN to responses from the previous lesson • WATCH a 10 min or less video in the Trombone Player Wanted series • PRACTICE applying what you’ve learned • PLAY your part, using the "Learning Guide" and “Orchestra Map” to capture your self-reflection Playing to Your Strengths illustrates that when people get the chance to put their strengths to work, everyone wins: individuals, who get to do more of what they love; team leaders, who get better performance out of team members; and organizations, which see better business outcomes as a result. This is a beginner's course, intended for learners with an interest in building a strengths-based mindset. To succeed in this course, you should be willing to self-reflect and open to shifting perspectives. Making the effort will result in a positive and fulfilling response. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Identify your strengths and demonstrate them individually, at work, or in personal situations • Share, listen, and learn from others as you use your identified strengths • Stimulate conversation and articulate your strengths by asking relevant questions • Create habits that stick as you keep them at the forefront of your correlating Orchestra Map

By the end of this project, you will learn how to use the basic functions of Microsoft OneDrive using a free version of Microsoft OneDrive. OneDrive is a file and document storage offering from Microsoft that allows the user to access their saved documents from any internet accessible device. OneDrive also allows sharing with other users through different levels of access including read only and edit modes. OneDrive allows automatic saving of files so that you never lose your progress and has version control which will allow you to look back at the history of the work you have done on a particular document. Whether it is for work or home, you will learn how to manage your documents and files in OneDrive to accomplish your file management goals. You will learn how and why to use OneDrive as well as the most important features in the free version of the software.

As a PhD student in academia, there are difficulties you may encounter in the area of integrity, such as power relations and issues around social safety, authorship, intellectual property, and ensuring academic quality. How can you properly determine the order of authorship? In what way can social safety be improved? How do others deal with integrity issues? We have developed the MOOC "Responsible Conduct of Research" in which we take you through these topics and provide ideas on how to become a responsible researcher, who feels empowered by knowledge of integrity. 6 modules will guide you in 7 hours through important topics, including examples, a lecture, expert views and experiences and the opportunity to investigate your own research practice. A certificate will be provided to participants who completed every part. This course was developed in the H2020 Integrity project by Mariëtte van den Hoven, Miriam van Loon, Hesther van Gulick and Eline Borsboom, and funded by EU H2020.