Capella has partnered with Sophia to create a series of flexible, online professional development courses that help teachers adapt to next generation, digital classrooms. Teachers can take classes ranging from adapting instruction around the new standards to strategies for one-to-one device environments. Courses are free, but teachers may pay to purchase a credit once the course has been completed.
APPROACH
Through the Capella PD course website, teachers can choose from a list of online courses for either continuing education clock hours or optional graduate credits. Courses range from Digital Citizenship to Instructional Coaching. The complete list of courses can be found here.
IMPLEMENTATION
Capella courses are all available through any modern browser and can be completed entirely online.
PRICING
Each professional development course can be completed for continuing education hours for free. Graduate credit can be obtained when an educator takes completes a project and pays a fee of $50.
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