Canvas Network

Canvas Network offers open, online courses taught by educators everywhere. Powered by the Canvas learning management system, Canvas Network provides a place and platform where teachers, students, and institutions worldwide can connect and chart their own course for personal growth, professional development, and academic inquiry.
Canvas Network is developed and supported by Instructure, an education technology company that partners with educators, institutions, and technologists to build open educational resources and break down barriers to learning.

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Networked Scholars (Canvas.net)

This 4-week course introduces participants to the tools and practices associated with academics’ participation in online social networks in order to share, reflect upon, critique, improve, validate, and otherwise develop their scholarship.

Getting Started with MinecraftEDU (Canvas.net)

Oct 20th 2014
Getting Started with MinecraftEDU (Canvas.net)
Free Course
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Minecraft has endless educational possibilities, but it can be really overwhelming to begin using it as an educational tool. This course is meant for new users of MinecraftEdu who would like to set up their server and plan their first two lessons using Minecraft.

Exploring the Cell (Canvas.net)

With content based on Next Generation Science Standards, this course explores the properties of life through the cell.

Basic Genetics (Canvas.net)

This course explores the role of meiosis in creating genetic variation. An investigation of alleles, traits, genotypes, phenotypes, genetic crosses, and the role of dominance is used to explore simple Mendelian genetics, as well as the use of pedigrees.

Teachers Without Borders: Educating Girls (Canvas.net)

The film, “Girl Rising,” opens with Sokha, a Cambodian girl in a golden costume, dancing in slow motion. Suddenly, the camera shifts to her life before she was given the chance to get an education—Sokha’s previous life picking trash. How did she get from the dump to dance? This course [...]

Digital Badge: Rockets to the Rescue! (Canvas.net)

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Digital Badge: Rockets to the Rescue! (Canvas.net)
Free Course
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In October 2014, millions of young people across the nation—like you—will become scientists for the day during the seventh annual 4-H National Youth Science Day (NYSD). NYSD is the premiere national rallying event for 4-H Science year-round programming. It brings together thousands of youth, volunteers and educators from the [...]

Google Ninja (Canvas.net)

Most people THINK they know how to use many of Google's free tools, but they actually only use a small portion of what's possible.

Digital Design with VHDL (Canvas.net)

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Digital Design with VHDL (Canvas.net)
Free Course
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This course provides basic knowledge about digital design and implementation using VHDL as the description language, as well as skills in the use of computer-based design and simulation tools.

Understanding the Scientific Method (Canvas.net)

Based on Next Generation Science Standards, this course provides an introduction to the role of science in society, feedback and regulation mechanisms, and using a systems approach to solve scientific problems. Participants will explore the nature of scientific inquiry and learn how to analyze scientific [...]

The Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties: The Emergence of Modern America (Canvas.net)

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The Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties: The Emergence of Modern America (Canvas.net)
Free Course
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This course will explore government policies dealing with African-Americans and Native Americans; the rise of big business and urbanization; the second industrial revolution and immigration; U.S. overseas expansion and participation in the First World War; as well as progressivism and the modernist cultures of the [...]