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Online classes start Jan 5!

7-week, self-paced, beginner and advanced classes available

eeCourses

eeCourses:
Learn. Connect. Grow.

Environmental education is evolving—and so are you. eeCourses are USEE’s flexible, self-paced online learning experiences designed for educators, interpreters, youth-program leaders, and anyone who wants to deepen their environmental literacy and teaching practice. Whether you’re just getting started or sharpening your expertise, these courses help you grow with confidence.

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Practical tools you can use tomorrow

Each course blends real-world strategies, Utah-based examples, and hands-on activities you can bring straight into your classroom, program, or community.

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Learn on your schedule

Busy? Same. eeCourses are built to fit real life—learn at your pace, pause when you need to, pick back up anytime.

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Build your network

Each course includes opportunities to connect with fellow educators across the state, share ideas, and celebrate what’s working.

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Registration Fee: $60

Get ready to level up your practice. This course gives you the essential EE foundations—big ideas, practical tools, and place-based strategies—that will power your teaching and fuel future learning experiences.

By the end of this course, you will…
Explain what environmental education is and delineate the five objectives of environmental education.
List and describe five important factors in creating an appropriate, safe EE learning environment.
Create recommendations for EE programming that facilitate broad accessibility and are designed to be developmentally appropriate, inclusive, and culturally appropriate for diverse audiences.
Select, adapt, and/or develop effective educational materials based on established principles for EE materials.
Select and implement appropriate environmental education instructional strategies.
Design and implement an effective environmental education lesson using the 5E learning cycle.

Registration Fee: $75

Strengthen your programs with evaluation that actually means something. This course gives you the skills to measure real impact across conservation, PreK–12 education, youth development, social justice, and health. You’ll learn how to ask better questions, capture meaningful outcomes, and use national, peer-reviewed tools to tell the story of your work with clarity and confidence.

By the end of this course, you will
Be able to identify evaluation questions that are relevant to your program and your program partners.
Be able to design a logic model and construct a theory of change for your program. 
Understand important evaluation terminology and become more comfortable with evaluation components.
Gain familiarity with a variety of possible outcomes related to EE programs and decide which are relevant to your program(s).
Design an evaluation plan that is culturally responsive, fits within your program design, and is achievable by your team.
Become familiar with a variety of evaluation resources.
Better understand the impacts of your work and feel more confident in sharing those impacts with others.


Important Dates

Winter Term Registration Opens: December 1, 2025
Winter Term Begins: January 5, 2026
Winter Term Ends: February 23, 2026

Spring Term Registration Opens: March 1, 2026
Spring Term Begins: April 6, 2026
Spring Terms Ends: May 24, 2026

Summer Term Registration Opens: June 1, 2026
Summer Term Begins: July 6, 2026
Summer Term Ends: August 24, 2026

Fall Term Registration Opens: September 1, 2026
Fall Term Begins: October 5, 2026
Fall Term Ends: November 30, 2026

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