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Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change-Online Diploma begins January 10
Dear Zunia Colleagues,CSDi is announcing the January launch of a diploma module of four online field courses on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change. These courses begin by introducing basic climate change concepts, and develop as participants identify local community vulnerabilities, investigate appropriate solutions, develop full projects, launch and manage them.Complete information and course syllabi:http://www.csd-i.org/adapting-overview/Online course participants are using our cours
Free online course for justice professionals dealing with child victims
In order to help to protect children in such situations, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UNODC have launched an online training portal for justice professionals who deal with cases involving child victims and child witnesses of crime.The training portal, the first of its kind, will target geographically diverse criminal justice professionals, including law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, social workers, health sector workers, lawyers and informal justice providers.
Cogito.org
You're passionate about math and science. You already like to think about, talk about, and do math and science, but you also want to know what else is out there—and who else is out there. Or maybe you're someone with a developing interest in math or science and trying to figure out what's out there for you and who's out there to share your ideas with.Either way, Cogito is just the place for you. On Cogito, you can learn about amazing scientists your own age, what they're doing and how they manag
NOAA Educational Resources
Education resources are distributed across many websites and program offices at NOAA and on NOAA partner websites. This portal is designed to assist educators in accessing these materials from one centralized interface. The content here is a sampling of NOAA's education resources and more can be found at each linked location. Materials selected for this site are organized by Themes, topical Collections, and content type that are aligned with common teaching topics and expressed needs of educator
American Meteorological Society K-13 Education Initiatives
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Education Program promotes the teaching of atmospheric, oceanographic, and hydrologic sciences through pre-college teacher training and instructional resource material development. It also promotes instructional innovation at the introductory college course level, hence the K-13 designation for the program. All programs promote activity directed towards greater human resource diversity in the sciences AMS represents.To date, over 100,000 teachers have re
ipHandbook of Best Practices
Prepared by and for policy-makers, leaders of public and private sector research, tech transfer professionals, licensing executives, and scientists, this online resource offers up-to-date information and strategies for utilizing the power of both intellectual property and the public domain. Emphasis is placed on advancing innovation in health and agriculture, though many of the principles outlined here are broadly applicable across many fields.This is an online resource that includes chapters on
UN University releases a FREE and UPDATED Book (v1.5) on: ‘The Why and How of Open Education’
The Collaborative Creativity Group CCG at the UN University UNU-MERIT has just released an updated version v1.5 of their book on ‘The Why and How of Open Education’(http://www.scribd.com/doc/71348644). This updated version includes – inter alia – a new chapter focusing on the Key Challenges of Open Education (Chapter 5).This chapter draws on findings from the EU funded openED and openSE projects, and on findings from a 2011 survey carried out by the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG).This u
MEASURE EVALUATION: Online Courses
MEASURE Evaluation makes free online courses on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) topics available for researchers, program managers, trainers, policy makers, students, and other public health professionals. These courses have been developed by global experts in order to provide state-of-the-art information on M&E topics.MEASURE Evaluation is regularly adding course offerings. For additional information on these and other MEASURE Evaluation training materials, tools and activities, please
United Nations University UNU-MERIT and partners are now recruiting for the 3rd edition of the free online openED course: ‘Business and Management Competencies in a Web 2.0 world’.
United Nations University UNU-MERIT and partners are now recruiting for the 3rd edition of the free online openED course: ‘Business and Management Competencies in a Web 2.0 world’.Starting 7 November, the course is for both students and business professionals and is based around 10 modules including project management, communication skills, and the latest web tools. Participants can follow the entire course or only the modules that interest them.'TAKE IT' The 3rd edition of the openED course com
Pearson and Google Jump Into Learning Management With a New, Free System
"One of the world’s biggest education publishers has joined with one of the most dominant and iconic software companies on the planet to bring colleges a new—and free—learning-management system with the hopes of upending services that affect just about every instructor, student, and college in the country."Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has teamed up with the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS that combines standard course-management tools with ad
