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ONLINE COURSES

Discover the advantages of earning renewal credit online. LEARN NC online professional development lets participants work and learn at a time and location most convenient to them, while fostering a comfortable, welcoming learning community through continual communication and discussion.

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has partnered with LEARN NC to offer North Carolina teachers online professional development courses. Courses are taught by expert instructors who have demonstrated their superior subject knowledge through their research and advanced coursework.

  • Convenient format: The asynchronous format allows teachers to participate at a time and place that is most convenient for their schedule, when they have the most time and energy.

  • Cost-effective courses: LEARN NC online courses eliminate travel and substitute teacher expenses.

  • Valuable content: LEARN NC has designed several courses that focus on critical need areas, including improving the teaching in core areas and closing the achievement gap for minority students. Courses are available in most subject areas.

  • Moodle Training: LEARN NC is the statewide provider of the Moodle learning management system. All public schools in North Carolina can offer online courses on LEARN NC’s Moodle platform after completing an online Moodle Training course.

  • Online teacher training: North Carolina teachers can now earn a LEARN NC Certificate in online instruction through the Carolina Online Teacher program (COLT). In five core courses and two electives, totaling a minimum of 17 CEUs, teachers can master the component skills of online teaching: effective collaboration and facilitation, creating learning communities, navigating the virtual classroom, and developing student-centered instruction.

  • Trusted partnerships: North Carolina e-Learning for Educators courses align statewide leaders in professional development to produce high-quality, cost-effective professional development. The Department of Public Instruction, LEARN NC, UNC-TV, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at the North Carolina State University College of Education, and the North Carolina Virtual Public School have collaborated on a series of courses that will bolster content knowledge and classroom technology integration. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Education under Grant No. U286A050018.

For a full list of available courses, please click here or contact Ross White, LEARN NC associate director.

 

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