Deeper Learning Hub Online PBL Courses

Teach a Project Based Course from our Catalog. Designed for Distance Learning.

Simply make a copy of one of our project based courses, tweak or add elements, and then invite your students to take the course. The Deeper Learning Hub has partnered with expert project designers to create a diverse catalog of high quality projects that run 1-2 weeks.  Together we can empower students to have agency over their learning and to do meaningful projects even during this difficult moment.

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How to Teach a DL Hub Course

Step 1
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Step 2
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Step 3
Teach your own Group

Course Catalog

All High School Middle School Elementary School
Big Data = Big Business. Big Deal?
Being critical consumers of data is essential for being good citizens.
The Science of Tortillas
By allowing an opportunity for students to capture the science around them with something they are familiar with - this course will help to promote their science identity and simultaneously bridge the knowledge between science , culture and the world around them.
Financial Freedom Project
This project is for students who want to better understand the world of finance and money, and who want a clear plan for taking them from where they are now to financial freedom in their future.
Media 2 M.E.D.I.A. (My Existence Demands Immediate Attention)
Adolescents are bombarded with media that can shape how they see themselves and how others seem them; this course challenges the students to tell their own story to be seen as an individual with a greater knowledge of self.
Course Companion Guide
Describes the process of teaching a course from this catalog. Strongly recommended for any teacher who plans to teach a course. Please select the CEU course if you want to earn units upon completion.
Math is Beautiful: Building Your Inner Mathematician!
This project asks you to explore and build up the brilliant mathematician that is inside all of us!​
At This Moment I Am
In this course, we will be exploring different aspects of your identity. We will be exploring questions such as: Who am I? What influences the way I see myself? Who am I in this community of learners?
Who Is: A story that must be told
This project will explore the process and production of writing a “Who Is” book about an important figure with an untold story. Students will engage in research, reflection, revision and exhibition.
How Do You See?
What can you see? How do you see? How does light impact our lives? These are questions you will be exploring as you take this course. You will learn about vision and light.

Frequently Asked Questions

The DL Hub has created eight short duration project based courses on the online learning platform Pathwright. Teachers can make a copy of a course and teach a private instance of that course to their students. 

The DL Hub is committed to protecting the privacy of student data. When a teacher makes a copy of a course they have created a private version of that course. Only the teacher and other students enrolled in the course will have access to the data.  The agreement with our platform partner details that  Pathwright ensures compliance with all applicable federal and California laws and regulations regarding collection and maintenance of student data, including, but not limited to, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and California’s Student Online Personal Information Protection Act.  

The DL Hub partnered with a talented group of instructional designers who built each project based course. Course designers work as HTH teachers, HTH GSE faculty, PBL consultants,  and curriculum designers. More details about each course designer are available on the about page of each course. 

The DL Hub courses are designed for teachers who are teaching their students remotely. Given the current circumstances, we invite anyone who considers themselves an educator and is working with groups of students to start teaching a course. 

During the current launch, all courses are available for free. At a later date, courses may have a small per student cost to help mitigate our software costs of scaling up this initiative.  We are offering a companion course that details how to effectively use these courses, asks teachers to reflect on their experience. The companion course which offers CEUs costs $50 while the non CEU version is free. 

Yes we encourage teachers to customize courses to respond to your teaching context. Research indicates higher rates of student and teacher engagement when a teacher makes tweaks before teaching an online course like the ones offered in this catalog.  The companion course details high leverage tweaks that can have the desired increase of engagement without being overly time consuming for teachers. 

Students should have an excellent experience completing a course on a Chromebook. Courses can also be completed on a smartphone browser. 

Partners

HTH GSE
HTH GSE
Powered by Pathwright
Powered by Pathwright
Hip Hop Ed
Hip Hop Ed
MAIC Network
MAIC Network
CraftED
CraftED
Create @ UCSD
Create @ UCSD

Resources and Support for Distance Learning

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