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A course on how to build an audience in social media. Excellent professional development resource for teachers and librarians wanting to build an audience within their social media. The entire "course" would be a large time investment, but many of the resources for the course could be used for staff development.

This is a complete semester course on computer fundamentals. Currently using a third party for online courses, but this would be a great model if we would ever need to bring it in-house.

This resource comes from Edx which offers 820 courses in 30 subjects from 85 institutional partners. This course comes from the University of California: Berkeley and is an 8 week course on the science behind happiness. Our district has been focusing on staff and student wellness this year, specifically mental health. We have many initiatives in place and have been working with local agencies to improve access to healthcare. This would be a course staff or students could take to obtain a deeper understanding of how our bodies function and why we feel the way we do at times.

This is course could be used for a professional development on copyright.

This is course could be used for a professional development on copyright.

This is a very easy to use, ready-made curriculum for teaching coding. There are lots of different lessons using familiar characters, like Star Wars, Minecraft, Frozen, Angry Birds, etc.

Learn to code/teach your students to code. Learn computer science and computational thinking and teach your students. Create an account and take an online course. Self-paced coursework for students. Learn how to teach computer science using Code.org's Computer Science Fundamentals with a free, self-paced online course.

A new form of distance learning, online learning is education in which instruction and content comprising a formal course of study are delivered primarily via the Internet. K-12 enrollments in online courses continue to grow, and while there is great potential in the virtual schools movement, there are many challenges inherent in this relatively new method of education delivery. What Works in K-12 Online Learning provides a comprehensive overview of effective online teaching and learning practices. Based on extensive experience and research, chapters cover a full spectrum of topics including virtual course development, online learning in elementary classrooms, instructional assessment and differentiating online instruction, professional development for teachers of virtual courses, and the challenges that virtual schools will face in the future.

This article caught my attention as I was considering Open Education Resources. This is a positive use of global learning offerings. It may not be available to all, but certainly might be to those who need it. "Looks like a good news for refugees worldwide as they can now pick from over 1,000 online university courses for absolutely free as part of an endeavor to offer education and skills training under a US-based program. The program was unveiled Monday, June 20 as a part of World Refugee Day."

MERLOT is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community. Our middle school is going 1:1 this year and the teachers are encouraged to try blended learning. This site would be helpful for them to help set up their courses.

MERLOT is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community. Our middle school is going 1:1 this year and the teachers are encouraged to try blended learning. This site would be helpful for them to help set up their courses.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has jumped into the MOOC marketplace. Their new courses for fall highlight Wisconsin and the University.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has jumped into the MOOC marketplace. Their new courses reflect Wisconsin and the University.

I loved exploring HippoCampus. The educational video, test prep, and simulations were amazing. I am exploring the topic English, specifically "Crafting an Effective Writer" and have found this video on being a successful online learner. The videos are informative and I could see my English teacher using them and it even applies to this course right now.

This would be a great resource for 8th Grade science for both teachers and students. There are currently 47 episodes on various aspects of astronomy. The narrator fills these short video lessons with a lot of information in terms that students would understand. He speaks animated and quickly. These videos could be used with a flipped classroom approach as an introduction to various astronomy topics, made interactive with Educanon or included in an online science course.

Great resource to share with teachers before summer starts. There are many free courses to take on a variety of subjects. It seems like all teachers at our school could benefit from something on here.

This course could be used in our high school business classes, as their curriculum covers the business plan process. It would be a great way to support a simulation where students create their own businesses from the ground up.

Resources from the University of Washington that breaks down different course activities and appropriate accommodations for students with different types of special needs

Variety of OER courses open to all

This is an online course that would be excellent to use with our 8th graders who are learning robotics and Scratch right now. Engaging them in several different types of basic coding activities can help show how the elements of computer programming are constant whether they are working in javascript or RobotC or Scratch, though the terminology might vary a little. This can help prepare them for more advanced programming classes in HS.

This unit available can easily be integrated into our middle school health class. The "course" was prepared by a nutritionist and includes videos, transcripts, and quizzes