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Professional Development and Online Courses
posted by: Ruthie | September 11, 2013, 05:57 PM   

With the announcement of Google and EdX joining forces to provide online courses, opportunities to take courses online, either for free or pay, continues to expand. For teachers, this provides an easy way to keep on top of their craft through professional development. While not every site offering online courses have courses that teachers can use for professional development, many do.

If you're interested in using an online course for professional development, here's a list of good websites to start checking out:

These courses are designed to be used for professional development and do not lead to a degree. Teachers wishing to pursue a course that does lead to a degree open themselves up to even more options.

With quite a large range of options before teachers, keep in mind the sage advice from We Are Teachers before committing yourself to any one option.

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