Overview
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.
EDUCATOR REVIEWS
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1. Connect with districts to gain suggestions for possible PD offerings. 2. Offer opportunities for teams of teachers to pace themselves together as a PD cohort. 3. Offer more opportunites for teachers to suggest future PD offerings. This will help my classroom instruction and ...
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EDUCATOR REVIEWS
1. Connect with districts to gain suggestions for possible PD offerings. 2. Offer opportunities for teams of teachers to pace themselves together as a PD cohort. 3. Offer more opportunites for teachers to suggest future PD offerings. This will help my classroom instruction and ...
This product would work better if there was a way for teachers to demonstrate/share use of the skills they learned in their classroom.
This product would work better if teachers could form a larger collaborative network.
This product would work better if teachers were offered upfront guid...
PRICING PLANS
Free
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PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES
Audience
For Teachers
K-12
Lifelong LearningCharacteristics
Credits and Certificates
Online Course
Professional Development