Online Learning

Through the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce's LMS, educators have access to free courses and professional development opportunities, available anytime and anywhere. This page features online learning modules available to any educator with:

  • An active Ohio PreK–12 license or permit OR

  • Anyone who has submitted an application for a State of Ohio education credential

Educators interested in taking any human capital online course can find additional information about the Learning Management System and other courses on the Department’s LMS page.

Accessing the Department’s Learning Management System

To use the LMS, you must have fully set up your OH|ID account. If the learning management system application is not an available application in your OH|ID account and you have an active license or have submitted your application for a license, please be sure you have completed the steps to fully connect your account to all education applications.

The Online Learning Access Guide provides the steps to access human capital online learning. Updates to the guide are coming soon!

Attracting & Hiring Top Talent

The newest online course is Attracting & Hiring Top Talent. It focuses on:

  • Candidate experience is how a job seeker perceives and interacts with an organization during the hiring process.

  • Process improvement involves systematic enhancements to the efficiency or effectiveness of processes. Both candidate experience and process improvement are critical for an effective talent acquisition system.

Specifically, you will learn the following as you complete this course:

  • Best practices for improving candidate experience

  • Components of a high-quality employer brand and employee value proposition

  • Social media strategies to enhance candidate experience

  • How to make recruitment practices more inclusive

  • How to identify waste in hiring processes

  • Strategies for interrupting bias in hiring

  • Legally permissible vs. impermissible hiring practices

  • Using AI to support hiring

Participants who complete the course will receive four clock hours.

Human Capital Essentials

This learning series equips principals and district hiring managers with foundational knowledge and practical strategies to enhance human capital practices by providing resources, reflection, and action planning to propel meaningful change.

The free self-paced series consists of these five courses:

  • Introduction

  • Align Your Human Capital System to Your Instructional Vision

  • Find Talent

  • Grow Talent

  • Keep Talent

Participants who complete all courses will receive four clock hours.