Advanced Learning Designs

Adams State University and Advanced Learning Designs are joining forces to offer you the opportunity to receive college credit for your professional work.

In order to take advantage of this opportunity, you must have already enrolled, paid and finalized your Advanced Learning Design Course. To do so:

  • Select a course
  • Call 1.888.654.5327 or go to adamsstateonline.com to register
  • Submit payment $140 per credit hour (graduate credit optional: Add'l $55 per credit hour)
  • Registration completed/password issued
  • Select "Go To Class" (Note: you will be asked to activate your course before you begin)
  • Enter your information
  • Course begins

To register for graduate credit, complete the steps above to qualify, then click on "REGISTER" below.

  • Enter your student information
  • Select (toggle) course(s) for graduate credit
  • Enter payment information
  • An automated response will confirm registration

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List of courses available through Advanced Learning Design:

SCED 589 A New Order for Teaching Optics in the Secondary Classroom

  • Format: Online
  • Credit Hours: 1
  • Open Enrollment
  • Tuition: (ASU): $55
  • Fees: (ALD): $140

1 graduate credit - Instructor: Jeff Elmer - Most textbooks and curricular materials begin the study of Geometric Optics with the concept of reflection and its application to plane mirrors, and the virtual images plane mirrors produce. While all students are very familiar with plane mirrors, the production of a virtual image by a plane mirror is a very difficult concept for students to comprehend. This course will provide instructors of physics and physical science with a different sequence, which logically develops the concept of the more concrete real image first, before any mathematical analysis of images or the idea of a virtual image are presented.
Grad Credit Tuition (ASU): $55; Course Fees (ALD): $140

SCED 589 Improving Learning (Literacy) Through Managing the Classroom Listening Environment

  • Format: Online
  • Credit Hours: 1
  • Open Enrollment
  • Tuition: (ASU): $55
  • Fees: (ALD): $140

1 graduate credit - Instructor: Dr. Sherwood Williams - Develop beliefs, skills, and behaviors to manage acoustic accessibility for students in the classroom by: investigating recent auditory brain research, examining the relationship between classroom acoustics and student academic achievement, and reviewing studies discussing background noise, signal-to-noise ratios (SNR's) in classrooms, noise affects on academic teacher performance, speaker-to-listener distance, and speech perception in the classroom.
Grad Credit Tuition (ASU): $55; Course Fees (ALD): $140

SCED 589 Aviation and the Elementary Student: An Alternative Unit to Teach Forces and Motion!

  • Format: Online
  • Credit Hours: 1
  • Open Enrollment
  • Tuition: (ASU): $55
  • Fees: (ALD): $140

1 graduate credit - Instructor: Dr. Lee Siudzinski - This course will provide the elementary/middle teacher with the background to teach the four forces of flight to the intermediate grade student to meet the forces and motion benchmarks or learning targets of their district. It will provide the teacher with the ideas and the format to develop and integrate literature and hands-on science experiences for their students. The classroom teacher of today needs to teach science in connection with the other content areas in order to fully utilize the ever-shrinking minutes of the elementary day. This course will stress the importance of integration and the benefits of hands-on science experiences with the student learners while meeting basic physical science standards/learning targets through the exciting world of aviation.
Grad Credit Tuition (ASU): $55; Course Fees (ALD): $140

SCED 589 Aviation for Teachers, Guidance Counselors and Administrators

  • Format: Online
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • Open Enrollment
  • Tuition: (ASU):$165
  • Fees: (ALD): $420

3 graduate credits - Instructor: Dr. Lee Siudzinski - This course prepares elementary, middle school, high school teachers, counselors, and administrators with the knowledge needed to bring aviation to their classroom or school. The course presents the science principles of flight, as well as the history of aviation, careers in aviation, and the future of flight. The course also provides a wide variety of teacher resources that can be used in conjunction with bringing aviation science education to the classroom, school or district.
Grad Credit Tuition (ASU): $165; Course Fees (ALD): $420

SCED 589 Discover Science Everywhere

  • Format: Online
  • Credit Hours: 1
  • Open Enrollment
  • Tuition: (ASU): $55
  • Fees: (ALD): $140

1 graduate credit - Instructor: Marni Pingel - The course will help the elementary/middle teacher discover that science is everywhere. Once understanding the scientific method and how widely it is used, the course will also provide comprehensive lessons to teach all the steps of the scientific method, which meets many process learning benchmarks in many districts. Finally, the course will guide the teacher in creating a classroom-wide science fair, which will help students apply their knowledge.
Grad Credit Tuition (ASU): $55; Course Fees (ALD): $140

SCED 589 Earth Science from Space: Our "Blue Marble" and the BIG PICTURE

  • Format: Online
  • Credit Hours: 1
  • Open Enrollment
  • Tuition: (ASU): $55
  • Fees: (ALD): $140

1 graduate credit - Instructor: Dr. A. Frederick (Fritz) Hasler - This course will demonstrate to teachers how our Earth, our "Blue Marble," fits into the Universe, The Milky Way Galaxy, and the Solar System. It will show the teacher how it takes observations from space to understand our planet as a whole. The basics of space born remote sensing will be explained. The most illuminating and spectacular visualizations of global weather, climate, fires, ocean currents, and long-term degradation of our planet will be shown. The implications of planetary degradation will be discussed. The teacher will learn how to convey this message to students and parents and help students use Internet sites and the course material to make their own presentations.
Grad Credit Tuition (ASU): $55; Course Fees (ALD): $140

SCED 589 Global Warming, Climate Change, and Environmental Degradation: Evidence from Space/Solutions on Earth

  • Format: Online
  • Credit Hours: 1
  • Open Enrollment
  • Tuition: (ASU): $55
  • Fees: (ALD): $140

1 graduate credit - Instructor: Dr. A. Frederick (Fritz) Hasler - This course will explain to the PK-12 teacher that the overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that Global Warming results from human caused increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The climate scientists also agree that Global Warming is having serious negative consequences on the planet. This course presents small scale methods that individuals can use and the large scale methods that governments and industry can use to reduce Environmental Degradation. The spectacular images and animations of Climate Change and Environmental Degradation from space presented in this course give an impression that can't be obtained from words and graphs. The teacher will learn how to convey this message to students and parents and help students use Internet sites and the course material make their own presentations.
Grad Credit Tuition (ASU): $55; Course Fees (ALD): $140

SCED 589 Global Warming: Solutions for You, Your Community, Your Country, and the World

  • Format: Online
  • Credit Hours: 1
  • Open Enrollment
  • Tuition: (ASU): $55
  • Fees: (ALD): $140

1 graduate credit - Instructor: Dr. A. Frederick (Fritz) Hasler - This course will document for the PK-12 teacher the science behind Global Warming and the consequences of inaction. Global Warming is only one aspect of the Environmental Degradation that confronts our Planet. Other aspects of Environmental Degradation include, air and water pollution, deforestation, devastation of natural fish populations from over fishing, degradation of agricultural lands, depletion of aquifers, extinction of species, etc. that are caused by many types of human activities. Minimization of Environmental Degradation from all causes should motivate us to reduce our "resource-use footprint" on the Planet and to encourage others to do the same. Learn what things will work and what things don't work. The teacher will learn how to convey this message to students and parents and help students use Internet sites and the course material make their own presentations.
Grad Credit Tuition (ASU): $55; Course Fees (ALD): $140

SCED 589 Simplifying Physics for Elementary Teachers

  • Format: Online
  • Credit Hours: 1
  • Open Enrollment
  • Tuition: (ASU): $55
  • Fees: (ALD): $140

1 graduate credit - Instructor: Jeff Elmer - The study of motion, forces, energy, and momentum involves numerous concepts, terms, mathematically abstract ideas, and limitless applications. The mastery of such a wide body of knowledge is nearly overwhelming, requiring multiple semesters of study. The purpose of this course is to help K-8 teachers make this enormous body of knowledge more manageable by providing concise explanations and terminology, with useful applications, for the teaching of these ideas.
Grad Credit Tuition (ASU): $55; Course Fees (ALD): $140

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