Online Course – Google Certified Professional Internship in Effective Science Communication

Learn to design effective science communication. During this internship, you will learn how to utilize science to understand how people learn and design science communication activities.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בתקשורת מדעית אפקטיבית של Google

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Planning scientific communication activities
  • Using knowledge from educational sciences
  • Best practices for different models of scientific communication
  • Developing a toolbox with various science communication activities
  • Improving one major activity during the internship

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Director of Scientific Communications
  • Educational Communication Specialist
  • Scientific content developer
  • Scientific Communication Consultant
  • Science Project Manager
  • Lecturer or instructor in the field of science
  • Researcher in the field of education and science
  • Planner of scientific educational activities
  • Science Communication Campaign Manager
  • Science curriculum developer

Internship – Series of 3 courses

Evidence-based science communication has become increasingly important. In this course, you will learn how to plan science communication activities using knowledge from educational sciences. We will also discuss best practices for different science communication models.

Hands-on Learning Project

The core projects in this internship are designed to be flexible. By the end of the internship, you will have a toolbox of different science communication activities, or one large activity that you will develop and improve as you progress through the internship.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

The difficult side of scientific communication

Course 1 • 6 hours

What you’ll learn

  • Describe the field of learning sciences.
  • Describe and compare different theoretical frameworks for explaining human learning.
  • Explain the relationship between cognitive biases and how people fall for misinformation.
  • Describe the motivational interviewing process and what benefits it has in scientific communication.

Skills you will acquire

  • psychology
  • Scientific communication
  • Learning Engineering
  • Science education
  • Learning Sciences

The soft side of scientific communication

Course 2 • 9 hours

What you’ll learn

  • Explain the role of emotion in human behavior and what possible ways it can be used in scientific communication.
  • Explain why authenticity, trust, and empathy help strengthen relationships and thus scientific communication.
  • Explain how improvisation, storytelling, and nonverbal communication can enhance your science communication activities.
  • Describe how to be an inclusive and trauma-sensitive science communicator.

Skills you will acquire

  • psychology
  • Scientific communication
  • Learning Engineering
  • Science education
  • Learning Sciences

Scientific communication modes

Course 3 • 10 hours

What you’ll learn

  • Explain best practices for oral, written, technological, and artistic scientific communication.
  • Apply learning engineering principles to design effective forms of scientific communication.

Skills you will acquire

  • psychology
  • Scientific communication
  • Learning Engineering
  • Science education
  • Learning Sciences

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