Certifications & Learning Opportunities
Grow Your Knowledge Base
Certifications provide great pathways for you to explore areas of interest, polish your skills, and expand your skillset. Distinguish yourself as an educator and get recognized for your time, effort, and learning.
Add to your qualifications
Check out some of the opportunities below for educators.
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https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/
Google Educators have passed a series of exams proving their competence in the use of Google’s education apps. There are two levels for educators to become certified at "Educator Level 1" and "Educator Level 2".
https://www.commonsense.org/education/recognition-educators
Common Sense offers a recognition program. You can earn a badge that publicly affirms your commitment to helping students think critically and use technology responsibly to learn, create, and participate.
https://www.apple.com/education/apple-teacher/
Apple Teacher is a free professional learning program designed to support and celebrate educators using Apple products for teaching and learning. As an educator you can build skills on iPad and Mac that directly apply to activities with your students, earn recognition in the form of badges.
https://www.apple.com/education/apple-distinguished-educator/
The Apple Distinguished Educators (ADE) program to recognize K–12 and higher-education pioneers who are using Apple technology to transform teaching and learning. You can sign up to be notified when Apple is accepting applications for the program. The application requires that you submit a video showing how you use Apple technology in your work and your life.
https://nearpod.com/certified-educator
Become a Nearpod Certified Educator and get connected to a community of other Nearpod Certified Educators, receive increased support and resources for sharing Nearpod with your colleagues and students.
https://www.iste.org/learn/iste-certification
ISTE Certification for Educators is a new competency-based, vendor- and device-neutral teacher certification based on the ISTE Standards for Educators. This digital credential recognizes educators who understand how to use edtech for learning in meaningful and transformative ways.
Other Learning Opportunities
https://edex.adobe.com/
Cost: Free
Get instant access to free courses, workshops, & teaching materials and connect with the creative education community.
https://www.futurelearn.com/
Cost: Free (Pay for Certificate)
FutureLearn is an online learning platform that offers courses in a variety of subjects including “Tech & Coding” and “Teaching.” There is a diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world.
https://www.udacity.com/
Cost: Free (Pay for Certificate)
Udacity is an online learning platform that overs courses in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Web Development & more, with Nanodegree programs & free online courses.
https://www.simplek12.com/
Cost: Basic (Free), Premium (Paid)
Professional Development specifically for educators. Teachers earn badges for watching a certain number of webinars or engaging in their communities.
https://www.codecademy.com/
Cost: Free (Basic), Paid (Premium)
Codecademy is an online freemium interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS, React.js), Ruby, SQL, and Sass, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS.
https://www.coursera.org/
Cost: Free (Pay for Certificate)
Coursera is an online learning platform. Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, specializations, and degrees in a variety of subjects.
https://www.lynda.com/
Cost: Paid (get access to the whole learning library)
Lynda.com is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn a diverse range of software, technology and creative skills. Connects to your LinkedIn profile to publish your accomplishments.
https://www.khanacademy.org/
Cost: Free
Khan Academy is an online learning platform of video tutorials and interactive exercises. Explore educational videos aimed at self-paced learning in areas such as Math, Science, Computing, etc.
https://www.udemy.com/
Cost: Paid (Per Course)
Udemy.com is an online learning platform. There are a range of courses from various categories from academics, teacher training to IT & Software and more.
https://studio.code.org/courses
Cost: Free
Online learning platform to learn computer science with a full course catalog. There are also one-hour tutorials designed for all ages by starting with an Hour of code.