Canvas Network Courses

Where did ‘mindfulness’ come from and how did it really develop in the west? Why practice mindfulness? This course aims to introduce the roots and benefits of mindfulness and provide simple instruction on how to practice it in everyday life.

• Canvas Network
• 8 weeks, 3 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Certificate

Essentials of Youth Policy

3 ratings

Young people go through complex transitions to adulthood. Public authorities are responsible for policies to enable young people to be active and responsible members of society and agents of change. How they do that is the main question of our course!

• Canvas Network
• 6 weeks, 4 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

University of Derby

Bridging the Dementia Divide: Supporting People living with Dementia

3 ratings

There are 35.6 million people living with dementia - it is a global health problem. This course focuses on integrative collaborations and partnerships as a way to provide seamless care for people living with dementia.

• Canvas Network
• No Longer Offered
• Free Certificate

Statistics in Education for Mere Mortals

3 ratings

An introductory, hands-on course that teaches educational research statistics by building Excel spreadsheets from scratch through short video tutorials.

• Canvas Network
• 5 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

Northpoint Bible College

Becoming an Expert Learner

3 ratings

This course will explore the diversity of intelligences and help the student to identify their own. Students will also explore study and note-taking methods and techniques to support a variety of learners, helping each to become an expert learner.

• Canvas Network
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

(K-12/HE) Purposeful, Interactive Foreign Language Teaching

3 ratings

This is a course on classroom foreign language teaching methodology primarily for new instructors at the high school and university level. The examples are in English, Italian, French and Spanish (with translations in English of the non-English examples).

• Canvas Network
• 9 weeks, 2 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

This course introduces participants to the regulatory foundations of aircraft accident investigation and investigative techniques specific to major accident investigations.

• Canvas Network
• 4 weeks, 4-8 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Certificate

Explores central questions about human experience through films as cultural and artistic works, alongside thinkers such as Aristotle, Marx, and Kant.

• Canvas Network
• 10 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

Build a foundation in Education for Sustainability through systems thinking, sustainable economics, and sustainability science.

• Canvas Network
• 6 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

Improve your Spanish pronunciation through a focused seven-week course.

• Canvas Network
• 7 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

eSankofa: Conversations About the Black Experience

A community conversation using storytelling and digital dialogue to examine the Black experience, challenge racial assumptions, and foster inclusive action.

• Canvas Network
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

Mega Events: Inside the FIFA World Cup

Explore how the FIFA World Cup extends beyond soccer into global culture, politics, business, and urban development.

• Canvas Network
• 5 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

Mega Events: Inside the Winter Olympics

Use the 2014 Winter Olympics to interpret how mega-events shape host cities and society beyond the public spectacle.

• Canvas Network
• 6 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

Composing for Public Audiences: Writing, Rhetoric, and Research

Interested in refining your writing skills to appeal to, influence, or inform public audiences about a social or political cause? This course provides instruction in and resources for creating persuasive print and visual texts to reach diverse audiences.

• Canvas Network
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

Applied Logistic Regression

This course provides theoretical and practical training for epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and professionals of related disciplines in statistical modeling with particular emphasis on logistic regression.

• Canvas Network
• 8 weeks, 5 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course