Online & Distance Courses
Over 200 self-paced courses for teachers for credit, CEU's, Washington State clock hours and Oregon PDUs.  Start any time.  Courses available in most subject areas.

Workshops and Field Studies
are offered in many subjects in Seattle, Portland, Vancouver and Spokane as well as other parts of our bioregion.

Be The Change

September 24-26

Westwind, Oregon Coast

Join us for this extraordinary conference to take your next step in realizing an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling world.                     

We are offering five courses at a reduced tuition rate.  Information on these courses can be found at this page.

Educating for Humanity
and the World We Want
Special Programs

Participate in events and activities that support our initiative towards
Realizing an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually whole human presence on Earth

Want a CATALOG  of our courses ? 
Click here to send an email requesting a catalog.
Our catalog is published annually in January
Our website is always up-to-date with the newest offerings.

IN-SERVICE WORKSHOPS

The Heritage Institute supports your professional development at school by offering university credit for in-services, customizing courses for schools and providing workshop presenters.  Click Here.

ONLINE EDUCATION BEATS THE CLASSROOM

Seems hard to believe that students doing online learning actually rank better on test performance.

Here's some quotes:

Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom

Update | 11:08 p.m. Read an article by Steve Lohr on keeping abreast of innovation in the Continuing Education special section.

A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”

The report examined the comparative research on online versus traditional classroom teaching from 1996 to 2008. Some of it was in K-12 settings, but most of the comparative studies were done in colleges and adult continuing-education programs of various kinds, from medical training to the military.