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Saving Schools, Mini-Course 2: Teacher Policies
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
This mini-course looks in-depth at modern-day issues surrounding teacher policies in U.S. education. The teacher is the most important person in our schools. How do we recruit and retain the very best teachers? What are our current methods for recruiting teachers?...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University | Taught by Paul E. Peterson
Saving Schools, Mini-Course 4: School Choice
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
This mini-course focuses on alternatives to public schools in the United States. There has been a rapid expansion of school choice in U.S. education. Charter schools now serve over five percent of the public school population, voucher programs have been introduced...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University | Taught by Paul E. Peterson
Saving Schools, Mini-Course 3: Accountability and National Standards
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
This mini-course focuses on the question of accountability in public schools. Who is accountable for student outcomes? Should we blame the schools or hold the students themselves accountable? Who determines the standards for accountability – the federal government...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University | Taught by Paul E. Peterson
Saving Schools, Mini-Course 1: History and Politics of U.S. Education
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
This mini-course seeks to answer the following question: How did a school system, once the envy of the world, stumble so that the performance in math, science, and reading of U.S. students at age 15 fell below that of students in a majority of the world’s...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University | Taught by Paul E. Peterson
Critical Issues in Urban Education
Rated 4.8★ stars based on | 16 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 44 hours estimated
Urban school reform in the United States is characterized by contentious, politicized debate. This course explores a set of critical issues in the education and educational reform space, with a focus on aspects of the field that have sparked controversy and...
Offered through Coursera | and created by The University of Chicago | Taught by Sara Ray Stoelinga
Saving Schools: Reforming the U.S. Education System
Cost $99 · . Course Length: 50 hours estimated
This course seeks to answer the question: how did a school system, once the envy of the world, stumble so that the performance in math, science, and reading of U.S. students at age 15 fell below that of students in a majority of the world’s industrialized...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Paul E. Peterson
American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice
Rated 4.5★ stars based on | 9 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 36 hours estimated
Discover what shapes how we talk about schools today by exploring the history of U.S. education reform. Engage with the main actors, key decisions, and major turning points in this history. See how social forces drive reform. Learn about how the critical tensions...
Offered through Coursera | and created by University of Pennsylvania | Taught by Dr. John L. Puckett, Dr. Michael Charles Johanek
Google Workspace for Education: Getting Started
Cost $9 · . Course Length: 1 hours estimated
This is a Google Cloud Self-Paced Lab. Learn about Google Workspace for Education
Offered through Coursera | and created by Google Cloud | Taught by Google Cloud Training
China’s Political and Intellectual Foundations: From Sage Kings to Confucius
Cost $90 · . Course Length: 30 hours estimated
This course, the first in a comprehensive series on China, introduces you to the history, geography, and culture of the country.Time, space, and identity — enduring issues in Chinese history — are explored. You’ll study China’s early...
Offered through edX | and created by HarvardX | Taught by Peter K. Bol, William C. Kirby
How to Do Things with Memes
Cost $29 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
How do memes circulate? Why do memes circulate? What does it mean to express your feelings, attitudes, and even politics through memes? This three day mini course introduces you to the history of GIFs and memes, surveys the use and abuse of memes, and asks you to...
Offered through edX | and created by DavidsonX, Davidson College | Taught by Mark Sample
Chinese Culture: Transformation
Chinese Culture: Tradition, Transformation and InteractionCost $99 · . Course Length: 16 hours estimated
Introduction Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has been in the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial...
Offered through edX | and created by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Taught by Jack Chun, Meng Li, Hsueh-yi Lin and others
Chinese Culture: Interaction
Chinese Culture: Tradition, Transformation and InteractionCost $99 · . Course Length: 16 hours estimated
Introduction Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has been in the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial...
Offered through edX | and created by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Taught by Xiaorong Han, Pak-sheung Ng, Lu Pan and others
Inequality and Democracy
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 18 hours estimated
Most countries are getting more and more unequal. But the core of democracy is political equality: that everyone should have an equal say in how their country is run. Can we really expect these things to go together? Can people have equal political power while...
Offered through Coursera | and created by Utrecht University | Taught by Rutger Claassen, Michael Bennett, Yara Salman
Critical Issues in Urban Education
Cost $50 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
Urban school reform in the United States is characterized by contentious, politicized debate. This course explores a set of critical issues in the education and educational reform space, with a focus on aspects of the field that have sparked controversy and...
Offered through edX | and created by University of Chicago | Taught by Sara Ray Stoelinga
The Step-By-Step Guide To Your 401k Plan
Rated 4.2★ stars based on | 42 ratings · . Cost $12 · . Course Length: 1 hours estimated
This course will help you come up with a simple plan to reach retirement using your 401k plan.Should you enroll? How much should you save? Which investments should you choose? Pre-tax or Roth?How do you get all the free money offered to you by your...
Offered through Udemy | Taught by Austin Abell, Glass Jacobson Financial Group, Jonathan Dinkins CPA/PFS
Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement
A MicroMasters from edXCost $940 · . Contains 5 courses · . Course Total length: 114 hours estimated
Nominated for the 2020 edX Prize Education systems around the world face the central challenge of finding innovative solutions and techniques for improving student performance. This challenge is shared by teachers, teacher-leaders, and principals who are...
Offered through edX | and created by The University of Michigan, MichiganX, Microsoft In Education , and others | Taught by Elizabeth Birr Moje, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Nell Duke and others
Understanding Korean Politics
Rated 4.6★ stars based on | 29 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 24 hours estimated
This course will select six most outstanding issues in contemporary Korean politics and will engage in an in-depth, interactive inquiry of those issue. They include Korean politics in history, institutional setting of Korean politics, and dynamics of political...
Offered through Coursera | and created by Yonsei University | Taught by Chung-in Moon
What is Character? Virtue Ethics in Education
Cost $69 · . Course Length: 8 hours estimated
Week 1: An Introduction to Character Education Week 2
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by The Jubilee Centre, University of Birmingham | Taught by Dr Tom Harrison
Engineering the Space Shuttle
Cost $75 · . Course Length: 54 hours estimated
For 30 years the Space Shuttle enabled human spaceflight in the United States and partner nations. Learn all about the Shuttle with this unique course, which also serves as a unique historical record. Since the lecturers are the same people who designed,...
Offered through edX | and created by MITx | Taught by Jeffrey Hoffman, Aaron Cohen
Democratic to Authoritarian Rule
Rated 5.0★ stars based on | 1 ratings · . Cost $25 · . Course Length: 4 hours estimated
This event is part of Michigan’s Teach-Out Series which provides just-in-time community learning opportunities for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. How does history help us...
Offered through edX | and created by The University of Michigan, MichiganX | Taught by Arun Agrawal