If you are after searching for free courses and from a distance this is your opportunity to sign up for some of them. We present you some online courses that start in October in the Miriada X platform.
If you like them, you will only have to access their website, with your username and password (if you are already registered) or register as a new user and enjoy them for free. Here are the titles and descriptions.
Courses available at Miriada X
Educate for new media: media competence for teachers
In this course proposed by the University of Cantabria, both theoretical and practical content are developed, focusing attention on making known what the development of media competence implies, in all its dimensions, and how the processes of reception and production of audiovisual content are mastered, so that the Students appropriate the critical content, skills, and attitudes that are essential to become media consumers. Likewise, from a practical perspective, the possibilities of using the media as a didactic resource and as curricular content will be explored, becoming the fundamental axis of the new literacy processes, learning about innovative resources. Finally, the theoretical-practical articulation of the course will be carried out through the analysis of didactic proposals that generate teaching-learning processes applicable in different educational environments whose purpose is the development of the media competence of children and young people.
Its modules are:
- Module 0: Introduction.
- Module 1: Media competition today.
- Module 2: Critical analysis and media production.
- Module 3: The media as a didactic resource and as curricular content.
- Module 4: The teacher as a prosumer. Keys to success.
Course start and duration:
The course will begin on October 3 and its duration is 6 weeks.
If you want to register for this course, you can do it here.
Introduction to vacuum cooking at El Celler de Can Roca
This course proposed by the Universitat de Girona, begins with an introduction to low temperature cooking and then focuses on sous vide cooking, explaining the general characteristics of the technique, its uses and the equipment and utensils necessary for its practice. Then we go into detail on sous vide cooking, emphasizing the advantages it brings and the importance of achieving a correct time-temperature relationship. The MOOC focuses on differentiating direct from indirect cooking by explaining their main characteristics and other culinary applications that can be carried out thanks to the vacuum technique, such as impregnating, compacting or deaerating. The recipes of El Celler de Can Roca and practical examples will accompany the explanations throughout the course.
A perfect and ideal course for the most "cooks".
Its modules are:
- Module 0: Presentation.
- Module 1: Low temperature cooking.
- Module 2: Vacuum cooking.
- Module 3: Sous vide cooking.
- Module 4: Direct cooking.
- Module 5: Indirect cooking.
- Module 6: Other elaborations and tricks.
Course start and duration:
The course will begin on October 10 and will last 7 weeks.
You can access it by clicking here.
Sport, personal growth and health: Martial Arts
This course offered by the Malaga University, contributes knowledge and experiences about ancient self-defense arts. In them, the mind-body balance appears as the essential dimension that ensures self-knowledge, self-esteem, the relationship with our equals and integration with nature. Throughout the itinerary, the essential aspects of martial disciplines and their intimate relationship with global health and personal growth are addressed; the significance of the Master and the appropriate way of executing them to avoid collateral damage, their connection to the environment and to other sciences (sports medicine and psychology, nutrition, coahing, etc).
Its modules are:
- Module 0. Introduction: Sport, personal growth and health: Martial Arts.
- Module 1. Coaching and its Application to Martial Arts.
- Module 2. Health, Safety and Sports Hygiene. Sports injuries.
- Module 3. Martial Disciplines: Traditional and Mixed.
- Module 4. Didactics Applied to Martial Arts. Tactics and Strategy.
- Module 5. Nutrition and Martial Arts.
- Module 6. Fundamentals and Basic Concepts of Training.
- Module 7. Training of Basic qualities.
- Module 8. Psychology and Human Values ​​in Martial Arts.
Course start and duration:
The course will begin on October 11 and lasts 8 weeks.
If you want to access it you can do it here.