Find steps you can take to get trained in using Microsoft products and technologies to improve your teaching. Also, contact your school or university administrator. Your school or college may have training resources as part of their licensing plan, or may have created materials specific to their employees. Once you've had some training, or think you're ready, learn about getting Microsoft certifications and the advantages of getting one.
Microsoft E-Learning: Learn Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows tools and skills. Each course offers pre- and post-assessments, and examples of real-world scenarios of how you would use Office and Windows. Most of these courses take four to six hours to complete.
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Distance Learning: Get a mixture of online classroom training, live discussion, real-world-based scenarios, and self-directed study into one rich and easy-to-use educational experience—delivered right to your desktop.
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Classroom training: Find a course in your area so can to interact with other students and instructors with training from Microsoft Certified partners.
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Training books: Get tips from Microsoft Press books to help you get information on how to use Microsoft products.
Lesson plans and how-to articles: Find lesson plans and how-to articles to help you use and teach Microsoft products more effectively in your classroom.
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Office Online Education Tutorials: Tips and tools for managing schoolwork, templates for college planning, writing papers, etc. Also includes free training courses.
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Windows Accessibility Resources for Educators: A guide that provides information about Accessible Technology initiatives and resources that are available to educators; step by step tutorials to introduce some of the most commonly used accessibility features; and information about assistive technology and step by step tutorials to adjust computers for learning needs.
Faculty Connection Academic Resource Center: Find curriculum materials, curriculum resources and preparation materials for faculty by faculty. These materials leverage real world problems and data to help you ramp up on the curricula materials.
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Microsoft Robotics Courseware: Take a set of labs that can be completed individually or as part of an introductory course on robotics. The labs take you through common robotics concepts such as reading sensors, controlling actuators, designing simple behaviors, and having a robot interacting with its environment using Microsoft Robotics Studio.
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MSR External Research Grants: Find information about pedagogical innovation in many areas of computing—including social computing and gaming.
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SCIENCE: Technical Computing @ Microsoft: Read articles, white papers, papers, reports, links to cool and useful tools, and a variety of other resources and information of interest to science scholars and students who use computing technology.
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Windows Academic Program: Learn concepts, code, and projects useful for integrating core Windows kernel technologies into teaching and research.
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Windows Embedded Curriculum Kit: Learn more about how to get started using Windows Embedded as an academic. Learn how to access Windows Embedded software and find out about the best resources to help you get up and running.
