Online Learning Opportunities
The EECapacity project offers many online resources and opportunities for learning, collaboration, networking and capacity building available to all environmental educators. Each resource described below includes a link to access it online. We invite you to explore these opportunities and to come back often as we update this section with new resources that become available over time.
EELinked
More than a searchable catalog of internet links about environmental education, EElinked is a global community of environmental educators. Here you can easily find and download EE materials, post your own content, ask questions, share lesson plans and resources, and find and collaborate with EE partners. Tell your story to environmental educators, share your successes, comment on EE resources, and build on each other’s program ideas.
EElinked comprises many different networks, each with a specific focus and intent. You may search, browse, and download materials from any number of networks in EElinked -- all without having to log in or join. But when you join a network, you are able to take a more active role in the community: post announcements, communicate with colleagues, share materials, offer recommendations, and make inquiries.
Join EELinked here: http://eelinked.naaee.net/
EELinked
More than a searchable catalog of internet links about environmental education, EElinked is a global community of environmental educators. Here you can easily find and download EE materials, post your own content, ask questions, share lesson plans and resources, and find and collaborate with EE partners. Tell your story to environmental educators, share your successes, comment on EE resources, and build on each other’s program ideas.
EElinked comprises many different networks, each with a specific focus and intent. You may search, browse, and download materials from any number of networks in EElinked -- all without having to log in or join. But when you join a network, you are able to take a more active role in the community: post announcements, communicate with colleagues, share materials, offer recommendations, and make inquiries.
Join EELinked here: http://eelinked.naaee.net/
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Online Courses
Several online courses are offered throughout the year, through Cornell University’s Civic Ecology Lab. Below you can find links to the courses currently open for enrollment. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums will offer an online course for Nonformal environmental educators that can be taken at any time. We will post the link to the course as it becomes available.
Online Learning Communities
An Online Learning Community is a group of individuals who share a collective goal and values, and who want to collaborate, share their practice openly, getting and giving help to peers, and engaging in reflective dialogue. These communities are designed to keep educators engaged in ongoing learning and sharing of practices. The primary objective of this type of learning community is to support education practitioners as they work to improve their practice.
We currently have the following learning communities open for new members to join:
Guidelines for Excellence
Are you looking for resources that will help you design and implement effective environmental education programs? The National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education, initiated by NAAEE in 1993, has developed a series of Guidelines that set the standards for high-quality environmental education. Each of these publications was developed by a diverse team of professionals, and each has gone through a substantive review by thousands of professionals prior to its publication. For more information visit: http://eelinked.naaee.net/n/guidelines/
MEERA
Do you need help evaluating your environmental education program? You have come to the right place. “My Environmental Education Evaluation Resource Assistant” (MEERA) is an online "evaluation consultant" created to assist you with your evaluation needs. It will point you to resources that will be helpful in evaluating your environmental education program. For more information visit: http://meera.snre.umich.edu/
Several online courses are offered throughout the year, through Cornell University’s Civic Ecology Lab. Below you can find links to the courses currently open for enrollment. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums will offer an online course for Nonformal environmental educators that can be taken at any time. We will post the link to the course as it becomes available.
- Environmental Education in Urban Communities: This 12-week, non-credit professional development course will cover novel practices and conceptual frameworks for urban environmental education. The course is open for educators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The course is open for educators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. For more information visit: http://civicecology.org/course-eeuc.php
- Measuring Environmental Education Outcomes: This 12-week, non-credit professional development course will focus on identifying individual, community, and ecosystem outcomes of environmental education. The course is open for educators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. For more information visit: http://civicecology.org/course-meeo.php
Online Learning Communities
An Online Learning Community is a group of individuals who share a collective goal and values, and who want to collaborate, share their practice openly, getting and giving help to peers, and engaging in reflective dialogue. These communities are designed to keep educators engaged in ongoing learning and sharing of practices. The primary objective of this type of learning community is to support education practitioners as they work to improve their practice.
We currently have the following learning communities open for new members to join:
- Climate Change Education: This learning community follows two guiding assumptions: (1) We will focus on environmental education and distinguish between what makes a program, teaching/learning resource, or lesson “environmental education” (as opposed to science education or social studies education). (2) We will focus on ways for making climate change education relevant for all learners. Relevance, while important for engaging learners, is a challenge for educators helping learners understand and engage with issues that are global. For more information visit: https://www.coursesites.com/s/_Climate_Change_Education_PLC
- Community EE and Urban EE: This joint learning community is open to anyone interested in community environmental education, as well as environmental education in urban spaces. While not all community EE takes place in cities, we believe there is enough overlap in the work that community EE and Urban EE practitioners are doing that we can share our experiences and learn from both approaches together. For more information visit: https://www.coursesites.com/s/_UEEPLC2011
Guidelines for Excellence
Are you looking for resources that will help you design and implement effective environmental education programs? The National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education, initiated by NAAEE in 1993, has developed a series of Guidelines that set the standards for high-quality environmental education. Each of these publications was developed by a diverse team of professionals, and each has gone through a substantive review by thousands of professionals prior to its publication. For more information visit: http://eelinked.naaee.net/n/guidelines/
MEERA
Do you need help evaluating your environmental education program? You have come to the right place. “My Environmental Education Evaluation Resource Assistant” (MEERA) is an online "evaluation consultant" created to assist you with your evaluation needs. It will point you to resources that will be helpful in evaluating your environmental education program. For more information visit: http://meera.snre.umich.edu/
