K - 12 MOOCs
Brown University
www.brown.edu - Brown has announced a MOOC for K-12 "Exploring Engineering". For more detailed information, please check the school's site directly.
Coursera Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
http://blog.coursera.org/post/49331574337/coursera-announces-professional-development-courses-to
Seven leading schools of education have joined this initiative, including the College of Education, University of Washington; Curry School of Education, University of Virginia; Johns Hopkins University School of Education; Match Education’s Sposato Graduate School of Education; Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University; Relay Graduate School of Education; and University of California, Irvine Extension.
In addition, a new network of educational institutions and museums have joined K-12 offering, including the American Museum of Natural History; The Commonwealth Education Trust; Exploratorium; The Museum of Modern Art; and New Teacher Center.
Initial Courses include:
• “Common Core in Action: Literacy Across Content Areas,” from the New Teacher Center
• “Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classroom,” from Relay Graduate School of Education
• “The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model for 21st Century Schools” taught by Mariale Hardiman of John Hopkins School of Education
• “Effective Classroom Interactions: Supporting Young Children’s Development,” from UVA, taught by Bridget Hamre, Grace Funk, Allison Leach and Kathy Neesen
• “Tinkering Fundamentals: Integrating Making Activities into Your STEM Classroom,” from the Exploratorium
• “Student Thinking at the Core,” taught by Barbara Stengel and Marcy Singer-Gabella of Vanderbilt University
• “Coaching Teachers: Promoting Changes that Stick,” taught by Orin Gutlerner of Match Education
• Three science content focused courses for Educators taught by the American Museum of Natural History
• Eight part series on the Foundations of Teaching for Learning aimed at teachers in the developing world taught by Commonwealth Education Trust
Curriki
http://www.curriki.org/
Curriki, a nonprofit K-12 global community for teachers, students, and parents to create, share, and find free learning resources that enable true personalized learning. We believe free and equal access to the best curriculum materials is possible and Curriki is leading the way.
http://www.curriki.org/welcome/resources-curricula/ - Resources & Curricula. All resources have been vetted and organized to better serve you and your students. These collections bring together the best:
- Teacher-led and student-led, inquiry-based instruction
- Assessment activities, projects, labs and interactive simulations
- Materials include lessons, units, complete eTextbooks and complete courses
- Supports include printable student materials, fiction and nonfiction ebooks, labs, projects, videos, interactive simulations, assessments, rubrics, and more
Imagine K-12
http://www.imaginek12.com/ -Imagine K12 supports companies creating products that help schools, teachers, parents and students improve educational outcomes. Located in Palo Alto, California, Imagine K12 runs a 3-month program for founders and hackers intent on changing the world.
http://www.imaginek12.com/our-program.html -Imagine K12 is designed to help founders take an idea from early stage to the point of being able to raise money from angel investors and traditional venture capitalists. For three months, founders come together in Palo Alto, California to work on their businesses
http://www.imaginek12.com/apply.html - Application Process
http://www.imaginek12.com/companies.html - List of companies supported to date
Indiana University - School of Education
BOOC: Big Open Online Course (Max 500 students)
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/24014.html
A free course in September focused on educators and titled "Assessment Practices, Principles and Policies" for as many as 500 students. BOOC to offer most of the advantages of a Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, but with more interaction, while taking advantage of Google's new Coursebuilder course management system. "Google wants to know whether interactive online practices that are working well with 20 students can be scaled up,". Students who complete the BOOC will learn the practical skills needed to improve classroom student assessments while exploring assessment principles and new accountability policies.
Graduate-Level Credit Option:
Students who wish to take the course for graduate-level credit will be able to do so by completing additional course requirements, including a term paper based on the weekly assignments.
Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Open Lessons - Khan Academy is a non-profit, and its mission is to offer a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. Its library of over 3200 videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.
Browse All Available Videos - http://www.khanacademy.org/#browse
Sign Up for free - http://www.khanacademy.org/signup?continue=%2Fpostlogin%3Fcontinue=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.khanacademy.org%252Fexercisedashboard
UDACITY
http://www.udacity.com/
High School Challenge - http://www.udacity.com/hschallenge - Hundreds of teams led by high school students are competing to complete as many Udacity courses as possible. High school students can still start their own teams by clicking the blue button at the top of the page found thru the link above.
Courses - http://www.udacity.com/courses - Current courses divided into Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced levels. Subject areas include statistics, physics, computer science, artificial intelligence, software testing, programming languages, cryptology, and others.
University of Miami Global Academy
http://myumgaprojects.com/mooc/login/signup.php - Free Online Course. Prepare yourself for your college entrance exams by signing up today for the University of Miami Global Academy's open online course. Our 3-week, 6 session course will cover material for the AP Exam in Calculus AB and BC.. Note: Not all their programs/courses are free, so check prior to signing up.
http://globalacademy.miami.edu/ -The University of Miami Global Academy's vision is to be the premier online high school, by delivering a student-centered, uniquely superior educational experience. Our online learning environment encourages exceptional critical thinking skills, develops curious minds, fosters ambition and leadership potential, and builds character focused on service to community and others.