Online Courses

Looking for STEM professional learning on your schedule?

The Tech has distilled years of best practices into a series of short, online courses that can be taken wherever and whenever it is convenient for you.

Design Challenge Learning Bundle

Our online course will guide you through the core methods for facilitating design challenges and prepare you to implement them in your learning setting. Get your learners excited about STEM while you experience engineering as a learner AND as an educator.

Modules

Introduction to Design Challenge Learning is composed of five core modules:

• Introduction to The Tech’s Innovation Design Process
• Try a sample design challenge
• Essential parts of a design challenge
• Facilitating a design challenge 
• Assessment of design challenges

Outcomes

• Understand how to facilitate design challenge learning
• Experience using the Innovation Design Process 
• Assess design challenge learning
• Integrate design challenges into any learning setting  

Pre-Requisites

None

Computational Thinking Bundle

Computational thinking (CT) empowers young innovators to approach problem-solving with a process or methodology that can be applied to many different problems. Learn how to guide learners and implement them in your learning setting.

Modules

Introduction to Design Challenge Learning is composed of eight core modules:

• Introduction to The Tech’s computational thinking pedagogy
• Key features of a plugged activity
• Key features of an unplugged activity
• Sample computational thinking activities
• Essential steps to facilitate computational thinking activities
• Assessing computational thinking

Outcomes

• Understand how to facilitate Computational Thinking activities.
• Experience Computational Thinking and how Design Challenge Learning can be applied to it.
• Assess Computational Thinking
• Integrate CT activities for both digital and physical applications. Plugged and unplugged respectively.

Pre-Requisites

Design Challenge Learning Bundle recommended, but not required