Including All for Education: The Digital Need
This course is an exploration of the foundations that teachers need to address in order to get their classes online. This course has been designed to help educators gain a full understanding of the benefits to having their courses online both for the instruction of students, exceptional and general; and for the newly found freedoms their online courses provide. In this course, teachers will learn about the history of distance education (DE), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Content Management Systems (CMS); and about Google Classroom which is a Google Drive System. Educators will also learn how to teach their students to be good digital citizenship and be able to share with parents or guardians about the benefits to their online coursework. Understanding both the benefits to online learning and how to be a strong online educator is key to implementing a successful digital curriculum and course.