Distance Learning Programs
Our month-long distance learning courses immerse you in connecting with your deepest values and helping create a humane world. Each course includes:
- a course book
- a booklet of exercises
- links to relevant resources
- access to the Online Commons for engaging with your fellow students and the course advisor(s)
- guidance and feedback from your course advisor(s)
- participation in one or more course salons (conference calls)
- a certificate of completion and/or Continuing Education Credits, if desired
Between the course assignments and the Online Commons, you should be prepared to devote an average of 90 minutes a day to your course.
Current Distance Learning Programs Being Offered:
A Better World, A Meaningful Life (formerly called MOGO Online)
A month-long distance learning course for people who want to put their vision for a better world into practice.
May 3-28, 2010
September 6-October 1, 2010
With A Better World, A Meaningful Life, learn to tap into your deepest values and help create a peaceful, just, compassionate, sustainable world while cultivating your own inner peace and joy. Through this month-long course, you’ll have the opportunity to assess your life, examine your values, explore new information and do more good for yourself, other people, animals, and the environment.
Raising a Humane Child
A month-long distance learning course for parents who wish to expand their strategies to help their children become more compassionate citizens and to make choices that demonstrate reverence, respect and responsibility for the environment, other species and all people.
March 1-26 2010
October 4-29, 2010
Developed for parents with children of any age, Raising a Humane Child will expand your parenting strategies to help you bring humane education concepts and values to your children and manifest your vision for a better world, starting with your family.
Teaching for a Positive Future (formerly called Sowing Seeds Online)
A month-long, distance learning summer institute for educators who want to inspire their students to become leaders and changemakers for a healthy, peaceful, and sustainable world.
July 5-30, 2010
Teaching for a Positive Future is designed to train classroom teachers, community educators and homeschooling parents to effectively teach critical thinking about social justice, environmental ethics, and animal protection, and enhance your students' understanding that their choices make an impact on themselves, their local community, the fate of other people, other species, and the Earth. The course’s emphasis throughout on building critical thinking skills provides participants with a constructive approach for teaching about complex, controversial issues. You'll develop new techniques and ideas to revolutionize and revitalize your students’ education and to make your teaching even more rewarding, interesting, and meaningful.
Dive Deeper into Humane Education. Apply for our Humane Education Certificate Program and become a dynamic, effective humane educator.
What is humane education? Visit: http://humaneeducation.org and click on "BEGIN MOVIE" in the header at the top.
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March 16, 2010 - 2:00 pm | Location: University of Maine - Orono (100 Neville Hall)
Please join us for an inspiring talk with Zoe Weil at the University of Maine in Orono. Co-sponsored by the Peace Studies and Sociology departments. Learn about the ways in which your everyday choices, your work, your activism, and your volunteerism can do the most ...
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