Lincoln Center Institute’s online courses are offered through colleges and universities to matriculated and non-matriculated students.
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The Courses include an introductory three-week workshop, a Survey Course, and a four-course series. All of LCI’s online programs are dedicated to Imaginative Learning. Lincoln Center Institute’s approach is applicable across the curriculum and invaluable for all teachers. Educators and school districts around the world can participate in top-notch studies involving inquiry, imagination, creativity, innovation, and arts and education—all it takes is a computer.

About Online Courses:

• Each is guided by a course facilitator
• Participants are immersed in Imaginative Learning through study of Ghostcatching, a stunning digital-video work of art
• Interaction is enabled through facilitated discussions, journals, and workbooks
• Graduate credit is available for most courses

3-WEEK WORKSHOP

An introduction to the essentials of LCI’s practice. Upon completion, you:

• Begin to understand how the Capacities for Imaginative Learning can be incorporated in lessons—for any subject across the curriculum—in a manner that opens up possibilities for learning.
• Are able to describe Imaginative Learning: The Lincoln Center Practice.
• Can consider how education for the imagination relates to your own teaching.

SURVEY COURSE

In addition to the study of all the components of the workshop, you:

• Learn to plan instructional units and guide the students’ “noticing,” a crucial part of the Institute’s pedagogy.
• Craft at least two experiential lessons around a work of art that are grade-appropriate and allow for differentiated learning, and that connect a work of art to the curriculum and to your students’ lives.
• Make personal, social, and cultural connections to a work of art.
• View the work of Institute teaching artists and teachers in elementary, middle, and secondary education.

FOUR-COURSE SERIES

Where the Workshop and the Survey Course introduce the participant to LCI’s practice by drawing on its essential elements, the complete four-course series takes the participant further into the details of the practice and advanced exploration of imaginative learning with each successive course, resulting in both a greater number and greater depth of competencies. The four courses are:

• Course #1: Introduction to Imaginative Learning: Entering the Study of Works of Art
• Course #2: Teaching for Imaginative Learning: Creating Curriculum
• Course #3: Integrating Curriculum and Pedagogy for Imaginative Learning
• Course #4: Imaginative Learning in your Classroom