Micro-Learning
Micro-Learning Modules
The following interactive modules were made using Articulate Storyline and are designed to help faculty with important pedagogical strategies and techniques to enhance instruction. Click on a link below to visit a module:
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Find out what your responsibilities and duties are when a student hands you an accommodation memo.
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Discover ways to get your students up and moving with these high energy active discussion techniques.
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Learn how to incorporate opportunities for students to participate during your lecture.
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Learn how to adjust your teaching to support a deaf student.
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Find out how to start off strong with first day strategies to set a positive tone for the semester.
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Learn how to infuse active-learning into your face-to-face sessions and use alternative technologies and teaching techniques in your online media.
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Review the pedagogy behind memory and view ways to introduce new vocabulary and help students use and review key terms for your course.
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Google & Microsoft Educator Certification
Both Google and Microsoft have self-paced certificate programs that help educators learn how they might be able to use the various free tools available to them. Click on the links below to visit the training sites and learn more about the programs.
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Certificate program designed to teach teachers how they might use Google apps to aid in their instruction. This program covers the core Google apps such as Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Sites, Groups, Gmail, and more. Certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the GCE Level 1 exam.
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Certificate program designed to teach teachers how they might use Google apps to aid in their instruction. This program covers a more comprehensive scope of the Google apps and covers more advanced functionalities of the core Google apps. Certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the GCE Level 2 exam.
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Certificate program designed to help people who want to teach Google apps such as teacher trainers and instructional designers. This program covers advanced features of core Google apps as well as administrative knowledge and skills. Certificate is awarded upon a semi-proctored exam, a video tutorial application and approval from Google.
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Points-based program where you earn points for completing video modules and passing a summative quiz on topics ranging from Microsoft tools to pedagogy to accessibility. MIE Badge awarded upon earning 1000 points.
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Podcasts
The following podcasts are great ways to grow professionally while traveling to and from campus. The episodes range from 30 minutes to an hour in length and contain hundreds of great ideas and resources that you can implement in your instruction immediately.
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Bonni Stachowiak explores the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. Bonni releases an episode nearly every week with interviews and conversations with teachers, authors and innovators on teaching in higher education.
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John Kane & Rebecca Mushtare host a series of informal discussions of innovative and effective practices in teaching and learning. John and Rebecca run the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the State University of New York at Oswego.
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Derek Bruff explores creative, intentional, and effective uses of technology to enhance student learning, uses that point the way to the future of educational technology in college and university settings. Through interviews with educators, researchers, technologists, and others, Leading Lines hopes to amplify ideas and voices that are (or should be!) shaping how we think about digital learning and digital pedagogy.
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Rob Alvarez hosts a weekly podcast where he interview successful practitioners of games, gamification and game thinking that will bring us the best of their experiences to get ideas, insights and inspiration to make learning experiences meaningful.
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Jennifer Gonzalez talks about teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform and educational technology. Jennifer interviews and speaks with teachers, authors and innovators about best practices in teaching and learning.
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Free Massive Open Online Courses
Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) are online courses that are free to join. Many of the websites below have optional credentialing at a cost but you may audit the course for free. MOOCs are a great way to expand your knowledge and network with people around the world who share a similar interest in learning.
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Hoonuit
(Previously Atomic Learning) |
Courses in technology, computer applications, instruction, teaching online and student resources, free to access with HCC email/password.
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Free courses in technology including basic computer skills such as keyboarding, handling the mouse, the Internet and operating systems, as well as software training including the Microsoft Office 2016 Suite.
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Free courses in a wide variety of subjects. All courses are free to audit. Credentials such as Professional certificates and Micro Master's degrees can be earned through the optional course fees.
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Free courses in technology and the arts such as music, graphic design, typography and more.
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Free courses mainly in technology and computer science.
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Free courses in general studies college courses including math, science, English, computer science, business and professional development.
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Free courses in design, web development, business, mobile development and entrepreneurship.
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Free courses in a wide variety of subjects including nature & the environment, teaching, technology, politics, literature, health & psychology, creative arts & media, law, and history.
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Courses in a wide range of subjects, facilitated in Spanish or Portuguese, free to audit.
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Free tutorials on how to use Excel, from basics to advanced features + 300 examples you can download and modify for free.
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