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Online Courses for Environmental Professionals

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Training professionals in 60+ countries

Since 2015, I have co-developed and taught a number of online courses for professional development of environmental educators, teachers, and environmental organization leaders. These courses, taken by thousands of participants from 60+ countries, include:

• Urban Environmental Education

• Introduction to Environmental Education

• Nature Education

• E-STEM Education (Environment and STEM)

Tips for conducting online courses

How to make online online instruction more effective for participants? Here are some tips based on my experience:

• Encourage participants from different countries to share their own environmental stewardship or teaching ideas

• Use social media groups to foster informal exchange and social learning

• Facilitate social learning by providing frequent feedback on discussion boards and asking participants to provide feedback for each other

• Give participants a choice to select learning materials that truly interest them

• Use a variety of learning materials: recorded lectures, readings, social media discussions, discussion board written assignments, responding to each others' assignments, and live or recorded webinars

• Help participants apply new knowledge to improve their practice