Teachers / Professional Development

A Wisconsin-based firm called LERN - Take a look at the home page at http://www.k12onthenet.org.The online course Teaching with Technology includes an audio part, discussions and readings. This provides multiple ways to experience online, and is the best way to understand teaching (and learning) online. It is also inexpensive. www.TeachingOnTheNet.org has a beginning course entitled Teaching Online.

Guide to Wisconsin’s Post-Secondary Online Courses: http://www.huhs.org/community/onlinecourses/

Viterbo University – a sample of a WebED course format can be found at www.WebED.com. Lots of Internet courses in Administrative Development, Assessment, Classroom Management, Gifted and Talented, Health and Fitness, Instructional Strategies, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Special Education, Staff Development, Technology Training, World Languages, etc. Call 1-800-234-8721 to register.

Milwaukee Area Technical College offers online courses: More information, including how to register, is available at: http://oncampus.matc.edu

UW-Fond du Lac Continuing Education at http://www.ed2go.com/uwfdl/ Offers online course relating to writing, computing, Internet, and personal enrichment.

UW-Stout – has quite a few online courses at www.uwstout.edu/access/

Catalog of Distance Learning , a web site which lists distance learning courses offered by the UW institutions. The URL is: http://www.uwex.edu/disted/catalog/

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College: http://online.nwtc.tec.wi.us/

UW-Sheboygan: www.ed2go.com/uwsheb

Marquette University: There is an excellent course on Utilizing Assessment in Learning with Technology as a classroom teacher course. After this in the series there are the following: Teacher as Leader, Online Facilitator, and Spinning Your Web 1 and 2 (online course development). URL: http://leadership-online.com/index.htm

INDEPENDENT LEARNING are courses that enable students to study at their own pace, in their own place. With over 300 print based courses (many with e-mail capabilities) at the undergraduate level, Independent Learning courses can help students complete university degree requirements or meet professional licensing standards without having to attend class. Students may register for these courses at any time and have a year to complete them. http://learn.wisconsin.edu/

University of Wisconsin Colleges Online offers a variety of online, semester-based undergraduate courses that can be used towards an online liberal arts Associate degree. This degree is accepted by University of Wisconsin four-year campuses as fulfilling the university-wide general education breadth requirements. Courses can often be transferred to other universities as well. www.online.uwc.edu

University of Wisconsin Green Bay - www.uwgb.edu/outreach/educ

Silver Lake College – www.sl.edu

UW-Stevens Point Extension - They have many credit classes online for teachers and others seeking adult professional development. Please go to our website, click on "classes" and then on "distance learning." Of most interest to teachers are the Communications Courses (Technology and Leadership Certificate Program, or TECHLEAD). http://www.uwsp.edu/extension

Wisconsin Technical Colleges online learning opportunities at www.eTEchCollege.com

Connected University http://cu.classroom.com

Azusa Pacific University http://online.apu.edu

George Washington University www.gwu.edu/~etl

Nova Southeastern http://fcae.nova.edu/gtep/online

University of Texas http://www.utexas.edu/cee/dec/online/index.shtml

Pepperdine Online http://gsep.pepperdine.edu/academics/education/ma-edtech/

University of Central Florida http://online.ucf.edu

Penn State http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/pub/index.shtml

Lesley University http://www.lesley.edu/online_courses.html

Capella University http://www.capella.edu/schools_home_page/final.asp

Walden University www.degrees4teachers.net

University of Phoenix http://onl.uophx.edu/programs/default.asp

Ilinois Online Network http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu

PBS TeacherLine, funded by a grant from the Department of Education, provides teachers with online professional development in mathematics and technology integration. http://teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline/academy/academy.cfm

Teacher Education Institute www.teachereducation.com

New Horizons http://onlineanytime.newhorizons.com

TeacherLine - online professional development for K-12 educators www.ecb.org/TeacherLine