Issue 32: November 18, 2017
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Welcome to Eduspire Insights, our new, semi-regular online publication to keep you informed! Insights features news and announcements, events, interesting new course offerings, updates from our software division (
Eduspire Solutions
), links to our blog posts, instructor highlights, and more!
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This Week's News
Keep reading to learn what's new with Eduspire
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Instructional Technology Specialist (ITS) Certificate now available through Wilson College
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Just a reminder that there is a new, PDE-approved Instructional Technology Specialist (ITS) Certificate available through Wilson College in conjunction with Eduspire.
The ITS Certificate, consisting of eight pre-defined courses, is designed to enable educators with technology-focused specialization in their schools or districts to become tech coaches and district tech leaders.
In order to receive the ITS Certificate with the MET degree, the eight ITS courses are taken instead of the customizable MET course track. Two MET Capstone Research and Project courses are added to the eight ITS Certificate courses.
The ITS Certificate can be earned by itself without the MET degree by taking the eight designated ITS courses only.
If you are interested in receiving the ITS Certificate along with the MET, please visit
eduspire.org/met
for more information.
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Interested in Learning More About The Most Customizable Master of Educational Technology Degree in the Country?
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Attend one of our open house sessions to learn about the highlights of the MET program and have your questions answered by an MET advisor!
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BRAND NEW Exciting and Cutting-Edge Online Courses Available!
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Instructor Spotlight: Dennis Albertson
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Get to know us better: Eduspire's top-notch instructors combine experience, skill, insight, and a passion for education. This week's interview features Dennis Albertson —
click here
to read his instructor spotlight profile and learn his favorite ed-tech app and ice cream flavor!
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Eduspire Instructor,
Dennis Albertson
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We've Got Plenty to be Thankful For!
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Since 2012 Eduspire has had nearly 8,000 course-takers, and there have been over 130 MET program enrollments in the last year. We're extremely thankful for all of the support and interest in our courses! We couldn't do it without the dozens of fantastic and skilled instructors and facilitators, our amazing staff, connections with innovators in the ed-tech space, and our partnership with Wilson College. We are grateful for the opportunity to continually develop cutting-edge courses that serve educators nationwide.
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More than 75% of Eduspire course-takers rate their Eduspire experience in the top 10% of all courses they've taken, and that's definitely something for which we'll give thanks.
We wish you a happy and safe Thanksgiving and a year full of blessings!
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New Online Course: Design Thinking in Education
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This course will immerse educators in a design thinking process. Participants will research and develop a project that engages students in a human-centered, problem solving process, specific to their area of study.
This course will help students gain skills of innovation, critical thinking, and creativity while collaborating with others to solve real world problems and find connections to curriculum.
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We're Looking for Guest Bloggers!
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We want our blog to be a place you visit for interesting, relevant, current, and informative content. In order to help us better cater to our readers and audience of education professionals, we invite you to submit ideas for blog topics that you'd like to see the Eduspire team write about.
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Feel free to submit more than one idea with your response.
Topics can range from the latest ed-tech news and developments, to new apps you've begun to use in your classroom, to common experiences faced by educators that you'd like to see your peers weigh in on.
We may write about your suggested topic and highlight it in an upcoming newsletter, so keep an eye on your inbox — and our blog!
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Whether you'd like to bring a course to your district, learn about becoming an instructor, make a suggestion, or just let us know how we're doing, we'd love to hear from you!
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