List of Online Courses and Certifications

Children with learning disabilities or special needs to deserve a chance to stand equally in society. This will only be possible when the doors of education are wide open for them but a normal teacher can't teach them. Special children require special teachers and that is the sole purpose of this course. 

The Swayam's Children With Development Challenges Course is specially designed to teach teachers and caretakers of those children some special ways of dealing with them. This course will help them develop a better understanding of such students. It will also help them in developing a deeper connection with them and thus teach them with patience and care. 

This course is developed, keeping in mind the needs of children who need special attention. Having an in-depth understanding of the field of education and child psychology will not only help the teachers understand these children well but also will help them in the field of special education. 

The ‘Psychology of Motivation and Learning’ certification program is developed for the students of undergraduate and postgraduate levels to impart knowledge on the various learning concepts and psychological perspectives of motivation in the context of classroom learning. This teacher education program is organized for the students for six weeks and is recognized by the All India Council for Technical Education.

The course instructor for this certification course class is Dr. Manzoor Ahmad Rather, an assistant professor from the department of education at the University of Kashmir. The students gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the experiential learning process in this core course. 

The ‘Psychology of Motivation and Learning’ online certification enables students to get a course certificate and credits points with valuable insights at the end of the training program.

After completing the ‘Talk to Me’: Improving Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Young Adults training program, you will feel better prepared to have a conversation about mental health with young and impressionable people in your life. You will be able to identify concerning behaviors, and then ask the right questions to help someone who may be facing the risk of self-harm, or even suicide. 

The ‘Talk to Me’: Improving Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Young Adults certification course aims to provide young adults, and the people around them with the information, knowledge, skills, and understanding to recognize and identify mental health challenges, and respond accordingly. You could use this information to help yourself or someone else suffering.

Curtin University developed the ‘Talk to Me’: Improving Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Young Adults online course with contribution and support from the following: Healthway Western Australia, Curtin University Teaching Excellence Fund, the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators, Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme - Universities Australia. If you study two to three hours/week, you can comfortably complete this online course in six weeks. Edx does offer 2 tracks, one is the audit track, and the other is the verified track. The audit track is free but it offers limited access to the course whereas the verified track is chargeable but gives unlimited access to the course materials.

The Research Methods in Tourism Studies course by Future Learn will take you through an exploration of tourism and travel, and how to conduct efficient research in the field. The programme is primarily designed for individuals looking to research the tourism industry. The curriculum covers topics such as different types of research, data analysis for research, current trends in tourism research.

To consolidate your knowledge, you will also need to write your very own research thesis, or build a consultancy project. By the end of the Research Methods in Tourism Studies programme, students will be adept in basic methods of hospitality research. 

To get the Research Methods in Tourism Studies certificate upon finishing the programme, students can buy the upgraded version of the course. With the upgraded access, you can also access the training as long as Future Learn hosts it. Future Learn provides this course alongside Nankai University, which is a college of tourism and service management based in China. The video lectures are mentored by erudite faculty currently working in the partner university.

The best way to gain deep knowledge about the premiers of the canonical works of Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Wagner’s Das Rheingold, and Verdi’s Otello are through this course of 19th-Century Opera: Meyerbeer, Wagner, & Verdi certification by edX and Harvard University. The course that we offer will make you drown in the richness of the culture and the legacy of opera music, its cultural influence, composition, and premiere performance in the Grand Halls where it was performed. We will journey the candidates through Paris Opéra during 1836 for the performance of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s grand opera Les Huguenots, and they will learn about the characteristics of Opera and the social context surrounding it.

This 19th-Century Opera: Meyerbeer, Wagner, & Verdi certification course can be taken by beginners as well since this programme provides an introduction to various topics that are useful for higher studies if the candidates want to become a musician or a music teacher. They can finish the course in just six weeks. If the students have selected the verified mode then they are entitled to an unlimited access offer, and in the case the students have selected the audit mode their access is curbed to being a limited access.

Professional Development for Early Career Teachers certification is a 100% online course that is provided on the FutureLearn platform by The University of East Anglia. The course can teach the Teachers to enrich their teaching practices, and also assist them in managing their workload.

The starting of any career can be really tedious since people are overburdened with new challenges, and responsibilities daily. The same can be when teachers start their professional career. The Professional Development for Early Career Teachers certification syllabus will support the participants in ways for the betterment of their teaching skills and also balance out their load of work so that they are able to handle the upcoming challenges smoothly.

For the Professional Development for Early Career Teachers training, the applicants out of 24 hours only give 3 hours in a week at a stretch for 5 weeks to complete going through this course. The programme just contains 5 modules which are explained through short videos and audios that make the learning experience smoother.

The Design in the Classroom with Cooper Hewitt programme is offered by the Smithsonian Design Institute in conjunction with edX. In this course, you will learn to employ design thinking in a classroom setting to find innovative and creative solutions to problems that arise within a community every day. The curriculum is based upon a creative classroom activity by Cooper Hewitt.

Through the Design in the Classroom with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum course, aspiring and professional teachers will learn the skills to educate other teachers about the design process. 

It is a five weeks course that requires you to invest nearly one or two hours every week for completion. It is, however, a self-paced programme; so you can complete it as per your convenience.

The online Design in the Classroom with Cooper Hewitt course will allow you to evaluate current design-based lesson plans and construct new ones. The stages of the design process are also a part of the programme curriculum, along with creating a solution for a real-world community challenge. The programme is free to enrol in.

The Science of Learning certification is a CPD Certification Service accredited online course that has been prepared in association with 2 institutions namely National STEM Learning Centre, and FutureLearn. The course educators are extremely renowned and have full control over what and how they are teaching. With this course, candidates can improve their teaching skills by discussing the art of learning.

The Science of Learning certification syllabus combines topics like what is learning, how it works, and how one can answer questions, and ensure that the learning Science keeps the teaching, and supports the betterment of the learning students. This course will also enlighten different concepts like educational Psychology, and neuroscience so that they can be used for interpreting research.

The Science of Learning training will make the participants reflect on their own teaching practices, and how they can improve on their teaching and learning. The course is small in duration but a lot of important topics have been covered that meet all the learners’ needs.

Certified by CPD services, and developed by National STEM Learning Centre, and FutureLEarn, this expert track Planning for Learning: Formative Assessment certification course on teaching is a 5 weeks course. This course helps in the betterment of the outcome of learning in STEM subjects by doing effective planning.

Planning for Learning: Formative Assessment certification syllabus is mostly guided by experts who have done assessments in learning. They can help the candidates identify their thinking capacity as a learner so that learning goals can be clarified, and teachers can mark their teaching progress, and work towards its betterment. This can be done using students’ understanding in between lessons and during those lessons.

Planning for Learning: Formative Assessment training keeps its aim of developing a plan based on learners' success criteria, starting points, and also helps them build their classroom questioning capabilities so that their teaching approach is adjusted based on the response of the students. Learners can also look forward to doing medium-term planning, and open out the benefits of working with peers as the practice keeps changing.

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The Online Hands-on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Program is a no-coding, no-programming course. But it is still totally lab-oriented, practical, and interactive. It aims to study analytics techniques using Machine Learning and enable students to employ it in their research, teaching, or other industrial contexts.

KNIME and H2O are the two tools you will learn to use with the Hands-on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence programme. The instructor will explain each step in a particular project/assignment and create a workflow for it on KNIME. You will then go through the steps and try to solve them yourself on your laptop. Whenever you have a doubt or question, you can ask the instructor in real-time. The results will become available to both you, and the instructor immediately afterward.

The Hands-on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence training sessions will go live between 2 PM and 5 PM on weekends. There will be six hours of training each week for five weeks, a total of 30 hours. Esteemed faculty from the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) from across the country teach students the course.

The Remembering Empire online course is about the collective memory of the empire. It talks about the memories of French settlers in Algeria and their view of Algerian colonial history. In this program, you will learn about these settlers’ history, the subsequent eight-year-long Algerian War of Independence, and the French settlers’ mass exit in 1962. The curriculum focuses on the mass migration’s cultural impact and aims to arrive at how France shaped Algeria’s colonial history. 

The UK Government’s Arts and Humanities Research Council has funded the Remembering Empire certification. It is a five-week online course in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities. You will be learning through videos, short readings, discussions, and quizzes through an interactive and comprehensive journey. 

Dr. Fiona Barclay of the University of Stirling, Scotland, will deliver the Remembering Empire program. You do not need any prior knowledge to join this course. Moreover, this in-depth curriculum will help you seek career prospects in cultural industries, charities, and amongst memory activists, museums, etc. 

In the wake of COVID-19, most face-to-face (F2F) training and education are being converted into online learning. The Digital Learning Toolkit online course provides you with the resources and tools to effectively create and lead online programs.

The Digital Learning Toolkit certification program will help you design an enjoyable and successful online learning experience for your students. The toolkit covers every dimension of delivering and creating digital media courses. Also, you will learn the optimum use of remote teaching techniques to engage your students.

FutureLearn’s Digital Learning Toolkit course will explore diverse topics, including web lecture recordings, learning analytics, blended learning design, learning theory, etc. During the five-week curriculum, you will become proficient in teaching your students digitally.

The Digital Learning Toolkit training by FutureLearn will also inspire you to experiment with various course ingredients like images, video, assignments, text, etc. Moreover, there are three joining options - Free (six-week audit), Upgrade (paid track for unlimited access and the certificate), and Unlimited (paid track for one-year access to hundreds of short-term courses, the completion certificate, unlimited access to any course you receive certification for, and more).

The Bioreactors online course begins by introducing some of the fundamental quantities that need to be used while working with bioreactors. For example, specific growth rate, yield coefficient, etc. Then, after studying some introductory kinetics, candidates will look at the different kinds of bioreactor operations, and analyze them.

Later on in the Bioreactors online programme, candidates will move beyond the black-box approach and start looking at what exactly happens inside a bioreactor. They will study the cells inside the bioreactor, which are the actual factories that produce a product. They will learn how to optimize these to give us the products we need, in the way that we need them. 

The four-week Bioreactors certification programme benefits not only undergraduate students from Biotechnology, Biological, Chemical, and Biochemical Engineering programmes, but even experienced scholars in their MS, ME, or PhD. Teachers can also take this course, to better understand the fundamental concepts, and reach higher levels of instruction.

The ‘Gender justice and workplace security’ online course is organized to enable students to develop their understanding of aspects of gender justice such as gender equality and other significant laws that have been drafted over the years to support the position of women in society. This National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning(NPTEL) course is provided by Swayam and the course of study is designed to be completed in four weeks.

The course instructor for this elective course for the undergraduate level students is Prof. Dipa Dube from the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. The students of this program will gain a comprehensive knowledge of gender-based concepts and theories in the context of a workplace.

The ‘Gender justice and workplace security’ online training program ensures the participants of the course with a course certificate and credit points after finishing the program with the assessments according to the qualifying criteria. This management studies program is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE).

The ‘Teaching And Learning in General Programs: TALG’ online certification program is an elective multidisciplinary course offered at the postgraduate level. This course enables students to discuss the strategies for outcome-based and quality learning in the education systems. This online course is provided by Swayam in association with the Indian Institute of Science Banglore. The classes are held online, engaged through video lectures, weekly assignments, and the final certification exam. The duration of the certification course is scheduled to be four weeks.

The course instructor of this program is N.J. Rao, consulting professor at the International Institute of Technology Bangalore. He will guide the students with the course curriculum and modules. The students of this program will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge and understanding of the teaching and learning principles that ensure successful education.

The ‘Teaching And Learning in General Programs: TALG’ certification course equips students with an online certificate after finishing the course study and will also get the course credits.

The ‘Advanced Instructional Methods’ online course is a study of the advanced-level techniques and strategies of teaching and instruction that aid in active learning. This online certification course is provided by the Swayam online free education portal in association with the National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Bhopal. The students are enabled to learn about student-centered learning methodologies that include collaborative techniques. 

This is an elective course that comes under the domain of teacher education and the course classes are conducted for four weeks.

The program coordinators and faculty of this certification course are associate professors at NITTTR, Mrs. Asmita A.  Khajanchee, Dr. Sharad K. Pradhan, Dr. K James Mathai, Dr. B. L. Gupta, Dr. J.P. Tegar, and Dr. Sandip S. Kedar. The ‘Advanced Instructional Methods’ certification course enables students to gain two credits and a course completion certificate after finishing the course study and the assessments.

The ‘Accreditation of the Post Graduate Engineering Programme’ certification program is a study of the various standards and procedures involved in getting accreditation of the PG engineering programs by considering the quality improvement. This online free course is provided by the Swayam online portal in collaboration with the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR). The duration of this certification course is estimated to be four weeks.

This elective course which comes under the category of teacher education enables students to gather valuable insights on the nuances associated with procedures, benefits, differences in approval and accreditation, and several other concepts. The program coordinators and instructors for this faculty development program are Prof. D. Singh Karaulia of NITTTR.

The ‘Accreditation of the Post Graduate Engineering Programme’ online certification course helps in upskilling our knowledge and getting an E-certificate after completion of the proctored exam. 

The ‘Basic Instructional Methods’ online course is a study focussed on developing the understanding of the process of teaching and learning through innovative pedagogical approaches with the knowledge of the challenges in the methods to facilitate learning. This course is provided by the free online education portal Swayam in association with the National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Bhopal. This elective course that is part of the teacher education domain is conducted for a period of four weeks. 

The curriculum is created with innovative concepts and principles to facilitate the pre-determined outcomes. The students are made to learn through course videos, lectures, discussions, and assessments. The ‘Basic Instructional Methods’ online certification course enables students to receive e-certificates after completion of the course study and the final exam. The candidates of this online training program are given the opportunity to explore the innovative methods of teaching and learning while also gaining academic credits after course completion.

The Educational Media Certification course is a 4-week online program offered by Swayam. Educational Media training is a part of the teacher education elective curriculum. Dr. Sandip Shivaji Kedar is the instructor of this certification course. 

The National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Bhopal is accountable for designing the course curriculum and granting the certificate.

Educational Media Certification by Swayam includes the principles of research-based instructional design and visual design, copyright concerns in media development, and managing different instructional media effectively in a variety of learning contexts, including classroom, laboratory, workshop, and technology-enabled learning.

The Professional Ethics for Higher Education Teachers Certification course is a 4-week online program offered by Swayam. This course aims to convey the need for professionals to perform moral conduct in their personal and professional lives to ensure continuous happiness and financial success for people.

Professional Ethics for Higher Education Teachers training is a part of the teacher education elective curriculum. This course is educated by Prof. Asmita A. Khajanchee. The course syllabus was created by the NITTTR, Bhopal. The National Institute for Technical Teachers Training and Research, Bhopal, is also responsible for awarding the certificate.

Professional Ethics for Higher Education Teachers Certification by Swayam tries to promote an understanding that it is crucial to accept the idea of coexistence and the necessity of harmony at all levels of existence, such as the self, family, society, and nature, in order to achieve lasting prosperity and joy in one's life.

The ‘Learning Management System’ online course is designed to enable the students and individuals to learn about the teaching and learning systems in the online mode. This course focuses on developing study materials along with the management of their storage and retrieval. This online certification program is provided by the Swayam online education portal and the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research(NITTTR). Online learning in this course is aided by classes through video lectures, books, and reference materials for a period of four weeks. 

The course instructor for this program is Dr. Ranjan Dasgupta, who is a professor in the department of computer science and engineering at NITTTR, Kolkata. The candidates of this program are given theoretical and practical insights on the various aspects and technological standards associated with LMS.

The ‘Learning Management System’ online training equips the students with the course certificate and academic credit points after completing the course study. This course belonging to the category of teacher education delivers skills and knowledge for the web-based teaching-learning system.

The LMS through Moodle certification course is perfect for learners interested in utilising the system to enable structured delivery and management of instructional resources and assessments. Moreover, the Learning Management System (LMS) can also be used to track the progress of learners and provide information regarding the teaching-learning process to the management.

The LMS through Moodle online training is scheduled for four weeks and is a training programme for teachers. AICTE has also approved this FDP course. The course throws light on utilising LMS through Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (MOODLE), an online platform specifically designed to achieve the objectives of learning and teaching programmes.

The LMS through Moodle course curriculum extensively covers all the necessary concepts that help teachers administer quizzes, quickly grade assignments, host online discussions, share resources, and much more! Learners can access, understand, and benefit from the complete demonstration of MOODLE LMS application through this training programme.

As a teacher, it is your job to impart education in a way that breaks barriers and connects with students from all kinds of backgrounds. Students can learn better with a more hands-on, minds-on approach that lets them actively participate in the classroom. The Classroom Strategies for Inquiry-Based Learning training helps teachers in achieving this. 

Based on the UTeach model by the University of Texas at Austin, the Classroom Strategies for Inquiry-Based Learning online course puts emphasis on the experience and knowledge that children add to a classroom. Candidates enrolled in this course will learn from videos of the 5E model in practice at a school, along with commentary from the teachers. 

An inquiry-based approach leads to a more exciting and relevant learning environment. The Classroom Strategies for Inquiry-Based Learning certification course promotes active communication, problem-solving, ideation, etc. The training is a short-term, four-week course offered for free by the University of Texas at Austin and they can audit it for a limited duration for free of cost. Those who want to get a certificate and unlimited access can join the course by paying the fee. 

It is a multi-dimensional course that dwells upon the critical issues in urban education with an in-depth understanding of the contentious political debate that has been surging around it over years. The issues are more in the reform space, where processes, intent, and execution strategies clash due to bureaucratic mismatches and are covered in the Critical Issues in Urban Education training. 

Polarized views and controversies have sparked off late owing to several inconsistencies in education practice. The course helps in identifying these issues, locating them in the broader history of urban education, public schooling, and school reforms. In addition, this Critical Issues in Urban Education online course then translates the evidence, historic viewpoints, and current debates to change these issues as creators of reformed policies in this field.  

The classes are designed keeping in mind the ethics, knowledge, and sentiments of all sections of attendees which may include school leaders, teachers, policymakers, and parents. Even young students are allowed to voice their opinion as part of this course. In short, this course is a single interaction point to argue and debate upon the issues paining students, policyholders, and parents alike.

The Using Technology in Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning course by FutureLearn is brought to you by the Chartered College of Teaching, England. The training reveals how you can employ technology-based practices in delivering better teaching and learning solutions. It focuses on research evidence to provide actionable insights. 

Using Technology in Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning programme will take the help of evidence-based research and case studies performed by academics to teach the candidates on efficient usage of technology. The real-life examples and case studies are there to add to the retention and improve the learning of the candidates.

Besides, the candidates enrolled in Using Technology in Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning training will also learn how to introduce new concepts and provide feedback to students. This 4-week long course is entirely free on FutureLearn and is supported by the Department of Education, UK. The candidates have the option of availing exclusive benefits by upgrading their subscription as well. 

The Online Educator: People and Pedagogy programme by FutureLearn spans a total of four weeks. To complete the course successfully, you will need to invest four hours every week for the classes. You can get accredited for the course by paying a fee and receive a digital certification for the same. 

Moreover, the Online Educator: People and Pedagogy course is developed by The Open University of the United Kingdom. It is one of the most prominent academic institutions in the UK, so an accreditation from the university holds an immense value from the employability standpoint. 

A team of experienced professors from The Open University will hold the classes online to impart learning. In the Online Educator: People and Pedagogy certification programme, you will get to learn about various parts of online teaching, which consists of building an online presence, innovation, disruption, ethical values, design, accessibility, online identity, among others.

Moreover, this course provides you with flexibility concerning time and place. Anyone who is involved in online education or training can benefit. 

In the Education Research That Matters: Ways of Researching programme, you will learn about significant education research methods and how you can use them. The curriculum will help you establish a foundation in the critical techniques used in education research and consider the pros and cons of various methods. 

It is quite challenging to connect existing research insights to practice, and using this to design high-quality and realistic research projects. With the knowledge gained from Education Research That Matters: Ways of Researching course at FutureLearn, you will realize that understanding research methodology is critical in making this task simpler.

As a learner, you will be involved with methods that are crucial to becoming better informed when reading research. Even when designing research in your setting, you will be able to select the best practices to use. The Education Research That Matters: Ways of Researching online courses will take you from first thinking about education questions to researching your own classrooms and schools.

Education Research that Matters: Applying Research to your Teaching Practice programme is all about exploring how engaging with research can help you transform your teaching practice. As a teacher, proper research allows you to enhance your teaching and better assist your students. On this course, you will learn how to find education research, evaluate its quality, and implement its insights.

You will discover robust search techniques and figure out to analyze your research findings. You will be exploring and assessing research from several peer-reviewed and online sources, along with learning to evaluate their usability and reliability. With FutureLearn’s Education Research that Matters: Applying Research to your Teaching Practice certificate course, you will feel confident in interacting with research and implementing it to your teaching practices.

Education Research that Matters: Applying Research to your Teaching Practice course at FutureLearn is designed to help you improve your teaching practice. The curriculum helps you analyze research, while considering the potential implications of your context’s findings. 

The short term Innovative Teaching: Engaging Adult Learners with Active Learning online programme is offered by the online education platform FutureLearn for a period of four weeks and weekly three study hours and is developed by the University of Padova and the University of Georgia. The course instructors for the training programme are Monica Fedeli(Professor at the University of Padova), Edward Taylor(Professor emeritus at Penn State University) and Laura Bierem(Professor at the University of Georgia).

Active learning has made the classroom more interactive and has transformed the conventional teaching methods into a student-centred learning process. The course engages with concepts of teamwork, collaboration and participation among students. In this programme, the learners explore their perspectives on teaching and share their ideas and plan to determine effective teaching strategies. Active learning, a powerful learning experience is structured into the potential of active lectures and engaging in small groups, technology in bringing participation, continuous feedback and assessments and affirmative student-teacher relationships which are dealt with in the course.

Improving Your Study Techniques certification is an online course designed by the University of Groningen, and the certificate is bestowed by FutureLearn. This course is a short-term course for only a period of 4 weeks. This course will teach the students effective skills for the study that can be used for a lifetime. Learning is an essential part of life since there are people who study even after their formal level of education is complete. Many people lack good study skills, and this course is ideal to develop those skills.

Improving Your Study Techniques certification syllabus mainly focuses on the ‘three-step model’ that involves studying, summarising and then finally revising to memorize what one has studied. This course will enable participants to evolve as better students so that they do not struggle while studying.

Improving Your Study Techniques will help the candidates to understand the value of time and make a study plan which is realistic enough to follow every day. This course will help these candidates learn everything from managing stress, to handle procrastination. All this will help them stay motivated during their course of study.