Computing Education Courses and Certifications

Stanford Seminar - Cognitively Appropriate Computing Education for Young Learners

How cognitively appropriate voice and visual tools can make computing and AI education accessible to young children.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Teaching with Tech in the Primary Classroom

In this course get an introduction ro coding projects you can use in your Primary School classroom. These projects can help you to reach the achievement standards for years 3-6 with practical examples of projects that you can code to teach coding.

• OpenLearning
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Code, Create, Play - unplugged to Scratch

Learn how to bring coding and computational thinking into your early childhood setting — from unplugged play to teaching with technology — using Code Club Australia resources

• OpenLearning
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Teaching Impacts of Technology in K-12 Education

64 ratings at Coursera

Learn computing impacts — data collection and privacy, relationships, the future workplace, global society — and evaluate lesson plans and classroom resources for teaching them to K-12 students.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

Computational Thinking for K-12 Educators: Nested If Statements and Compound Conditionals

1 rating

Learn to program nested if/else statements and compound Boolean conditionals in Snap and Scratch, build a soccer game, and prepare classroom debugging and equity resources for students.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Learn to Teach Java

57 ratings at Coursera

Prepare to teach introductory Java for AP Computer Science A: preview the CS Awesome curriculum and practice teaching debugging, code tracing, and problem-solving patterns.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Teaching Impacts of Technology: Fundamentals

40 ratings at Coursera

Learn to teach K-12 students how everyday apps work, pairing food delivery and streaming with geolocation, GPS, compression and spanning trees, plus constructivist unplugged lesson plans.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Computational Thinking for K-12 Educators: Sequences and Loops

26 ratings at Coursera

Teach sequences and loops with block-based programming: build Snap and code.org programs, spot common student bugs, run classroom discussions, and apply pair programming.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Teaching Impacts of Technology: Data Collection, Use, and Privacy

10 ratings at Coursera

Teach K-12 students how personal data is collected and used: explore cookies, HTTPS, cryptography, big data and machine learning, plus Bloom's taxonomy and retrieval practice.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Teaching Impacts of Technology: Relationships

Explore how smart devices reshape personal relationships and teach the computing behind them: newsfeed algorithms, big O notation, image encoding, CSTA standards, and ICAP lesson plans.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Capstone Project: Teaching Impacts of Technology

Prepare to teach the AP Computer Science Principles Explore Task: complete the task yourself, create a computational artifact, and grade student work using APCSP scoring guidelines.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coding for Your Classroom K - 3

1 rating

Self-paced, asynchronous course aimed to build educators’ comfortability and confidence in digital literacy. Through hands-on learning activities and demos in a variety of web-based platforms, educato

• edX
• 4 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Quantum Computing for Your Classroom 10-12

8 ratings at edX

Quantum Computing for Your Classroom is an activity focused, self-paced course designed to help educators integrate an exciting new field into their physics and computer science classrooms.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Friday Institute;  North Carolina State University

Teaching the Computer Science Discoveries Course

1 rating

Prepare to teach the Computer Science Discoveries curriculum in Grades 6-10: navigate Code.org resources, apply computational thinking, use the lead learner model, and address equity gaps.

• MOOC-ED
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Teaching Coding in Grades 5-8 with Scratch Encore

8 ratings at edX

This course introduces teachers and other educators to the basics of teaching programming with Scratch to students in grades 5-8 using Scratch Encore, a culturally responsive, intermediate computer sc

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)