All courses are still available for registration. Small modifications have been made to courses due to school closures in consequence of COVID-19. Click here for further information.

Providing Interactive Learning Experiences

Providing Interactive Learning Experiences

Course Description

This course offers a variety of strategies to help educators design lessons that are more interactive for their students.  By utilizing these strategies for interactive learning, educators provide multiple opportunities for their learners to become more interactive with the content and with each other.   Along with offering a multitude of strategies, this course also addresses the challenges of interactive learning and ways to overcome those challenges.  While participating in activities that are interactive, learners are more likely to engage with the content and improve their comprehension.

Trust Symbol Credits for Teachers No Risk.png
Trust Symbol Credits for Teachers SSL.png

Course Numbers

  • Adams State: ED 589
  • UMass Global: EDDU 9621

 

Course Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • Students will learn what it means to make learning interactive along with the obstacles of interactive learning and ways to overcome those obstacles.
  • Students will learn and analyze different interactive learning strategies.
  • Students will be able to apply interactive learning strategies to make their own students interact with the content and with each other more during lessons.
  • Students will be able to utilize interactive learning strategies to improve content comprehension among their own students.
  • Students will develop skills to reflect on & improve their own teaching practices.

 

Relevancy to Practice: This course provides educators with the following relevant information to help improve their practice:

  • Strategies and tools for getting students to interact more with the content and with each other to increase engagement and comprehension.
  • Becoming aware of and then overcoming the potential obstacles of interactive learning.
  • Creating common learning experiences and whole-class instruction that is interactive and engaging for all learners.
  • Making lectures more interactive for students by both having students interact with the content within the lecture and with each other.
  • Structuring effective interactive lessons and whole-class discussions.
  • Strategies to help students interact with the text while they are reading.
  • Incorporating effective ways for students to interact, listen and learn from each other.

Course Format 

This is an online course. Please use course materials emailed to you upon your original registration.

Providing Interactive Learning Experiences Syllabus

Click below for a preview syllabus for this course. This syllabus applies to students receiving credits from Adams State University or UMass Global or those taking the course for Continuing Education (no credits).

No-Risk Guarantee: 

You can cancel a course registration within 30-days and receive a 100% refund, no questions asked.

Registration Now Open: Register now and receive your course materials within 24 hours.  Course materials are due within 6 months of registering for the course.

Price:

Starting at $189.00

Credits:

3

Graduate Credits

*Pricing may not include University Fees. Select option to include fees.

University Fee

Course fee may or may not include the university’s registration fee depending on the university partner. University fees are not included in the registration fee for Adam’s State University and University of Massachusetts Global. 

Those additional fees are:
University of Massachusetts Global: $70/credit
Adam’s State University: $55/credit  

Instructions for how to register with your selected University Partner and pay additional fees will be provided after registering with Credits for Teachers.

University fees for Colorado State University Pueblo are included in the course fees. 

Please note that we cannot grant refunds for students who have already turned in work for a course, even if it is within the 30-day window.

Refunds Policy

Students are able to request a full refund of any Credits for Teachers course within 30 days of registration.  In order to do so, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name and the course you registered for and we will complete the refund.

Exchange Policy

Students are able to exchange one course for another within 30 days of registration as long as the course price is the same and the student does not change the university Partner.  In order to exchange a course, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name, course you have registered for and the course you would like to switch to.

Please note that we cannot exchange a course once for students who have already submitted their course for grading, even if it is within the 30-day window.

Transfer Policy

Students that would like to transfer their course from one university partner to another may have the opportunity to do so within the first 30 days of registering for a course.  In order to transfer your course to a different University Partner, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name, the course you are currently registered for and the new University Partner you’d like to switch to.