Each year, TELS faculty members design a collaborative on-line graduate course and offer it at each participating institution. All TELS graduate fellows participate in these collaborative courses during their graduate program. In addition, prospective fellows, pre-service teachers, and other interested students can enroll for in-depth study of computer technology-enhanced science education. TELS teachers may enroll for continuing education credit.

 

Each institutional partner offers TELS collaborative graduate courses to its graduate students. Professors serve as mentors, meeting with students in person to discuss the readings and carry out the activities designed by the course leaders. Each course participant undertakes a project in collaboration with a student at another TELS institution. These projects can evolve into TELS-funded research. The TELS collaborative graduate courses extend the expertise within the TELS center to a wider audience of graduate students at participating universities and to teachers and administrators, through their nearest TELS institution.