Education & Teaching Courses and Certifications

Teaching assistants: support in action

9 ratings at OpenLearn

Teaching assistants are an important resource in education. This free course, Teaching assistants: support in action, looks at how the role has developed across the UK over time. It explores the ...

• OpenLearn
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Educación de calidad para todos: equidad, inclusión y atención a la diversidad

93 ratings

Aprenderás cómo debería ser un sistema educativo que promueva la inclusión y la calidad sin renunciar a la excelencia ni a la equidad y cómo puedes llevarlo a la práctica.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Principles and practices of peace education

6 ratings at OpenLearn

Explores how educators can build peace in classrooms through inner wellbeing, positive relationships, constructive conflict approaches, and critical thinking about the wider world.

• OpenLearn
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

5 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM, provides a toolkit for conducting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) within Science, Technology, Engineering and ...

• OpenLearn
• 24 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

2 ratings at OpenLearn

Museums give children experiences above and beyond the everyday experiences that enrich and build upon classroom teaching and learning. Taking pupils to a museum, or bringing museum artefacts into...

• OpenLearn
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Mastering Medical Teaching

3 ratings

A framework for improving clinical teaching through learning climate, clear educational goals, learner retention, feedback, and self-directed learning.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Online education: The foundations of online teaching

313 ratings at Coursera

Redesign face-to-face teaching for online delivery using transactional distance, the Community of Inquiry model, cognitive load management, and discussion forums that build inclusive learning communities.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Philosophy for Children and P.E.A.C.E.

This course aims to demonstrate how important philosophy is to the development of critical and creative thinking.

• EMMA
• 7 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Dive into the dynamic world of offensive explosiveness with

• CoachTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Action Learning for Inclusion

The Course explains how to develop planning, urban and architectural design teaching or training initiatives with an action-oriented approach, by describing the meaning, and possible methods and tools of Action Learning.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Enhancing education through open opportunities

Explore open educational practices: how teachers, librarians and students share, adapt and reuse learning materials, why open education matters now, and how to remix this MOOC.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 5 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Evaluación efectiva del aprendizaje en entornos digitales

66 ratings

Aprende a diseñar e implementar procesos de evaluación efectiva y auténtica en entornos digitales.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

BES-122: Contemporary India and Education

Explores how Indian society, constitutional principles, and education policy shape equity, diversity, and secondary schooling from colonial legacies to NEP 2020.

• Swayam
• 16 weeks
• Available until Nov 15, 2026
• Free Online Course

Enhancing Catholic School Identity

How to build a Catholic Dialogue School in a pluralising and secularising world

• edX
• 13 weeks, 8-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Basic Concepts in Education

Explores education through philosophical and sociological lenses, tracing progressive thinkers from Rousseau and Dewey to Tagore and Gandhi, and the teacher's ties to curriculum and society.

• Swayam
• 6 weeks
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course