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How To Teach Online: Moving online post-pandemic

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Overview

Discover practical ways to deliver online education and support your students.

Since the initial COVID-19 lockdown, many of you have been asked to move your teaching online and even now, online learning continues to play a key role in education. This three-week course will show you useful techniques to adapt face-to-face teaching to online lessons so that your students can get the most out of their learning experience. You’ll learn practical approaches to help you quickly move your teaching online, overcome the hurdles presented by digital education, and embrace the opportunities that come with online learning.

Learn how to create a lesson plan for eLearning

You’ll discuss the challenges of online teaching to understand how to modify your lessons and prepare your students for success. You’ll learn how to create effective lesson plans for online teaching and think about learning design. You’ll also have access to insightful resources, including answers to popular questions about teaching online.

Explore techniques to help you engage your students

Discover how to build a strong online community by connecting with others, and learn how to create engagement through interaction. You’ll find out how to balance online learning with offline, asynchronous learning. Hearing from students about their online learning experiences, you’ll understand how to select and design different approaches to engage students and create an effective student learning environment.

Check progress and provide feedback

Checking student progress and giving useful feedback is very different in an online context, so it’s important to learn the best methods to ensure your students know how to improve. You’ll learn what makes for effective assessments and feedback to create a collaborative experience for you and your students.

This course is designed for educators, teachers, lecturers, and trainers who have to rapidly move from face-to-face to online teaching who are under time constraints.

Syllabus

  • Start teaching online
    • Welcome to the course
    • Preparing your students for success
    • Building an online learning activity
    • Weekly wrap-up
  • Maintaining student interest and engagement
    • Welcome to Week 2
    • Supporting your students' learning
    • Approaches and techniques to engage and interact online
    • Weekly wrap-up
  • From a response course to a community resource
    • Welcome to Week 3
    • Assessment and feedback
    • Reflection and evaluation
    • Peer feedback and your weekly reflection
    • Wrapping up the week and guiding next steps

Taught by

Matt Jenner

Reviews

4.5 rating, based on 36 Class Central reviews

4.8 rating at FutureLearn based on 971 ratings

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  • Anonymous
    After 38 years as an ESL teacher, I want to be not only the teacher of the past, but also the teacher of the future. Since the world of learning is constantly changing, I have moved forward with “How to Teach Online: Moving online post-pandemic”. The course is professionally created, engaging, inspiring and encouraging. The authors shared with us an amazing library of concepts, tools and techniques that can be used in our classes. Doing the course, the learners have a real chance to have first-hand knowledge how it works. The final certificate is also very motivating. I believe all the students enjoy this virtual learning journey with the team of the experienced online educators!
  • Arti
    good and intersesting course . scope for online discussions, reviews and intersting material . Using the skills we have learned in this course so far, we can experience a deeper, more satisfying experience of appreciation. Also, as we discussed just…
  • Nicole Vernon
    If you are a teacher going into online teaching for the first time and not sure how to begin, what strategies to use, then this course is for you. Do you have material and no idea how to arrange it to be presented to students? This course is for you…
  • Maureen Mamaradlo Alger
    It will help me especially for the beginning of this school year 2021-2022, both in my online classes as I teach my learners and for my academic writing for my master's degree. I am writing about the analysis of low academic performance of students…
  • Anonymous
    The course was really informative and useful for each teacher. I am sure that everyone found anything interesting here. I would like to express my gratitude to the organizers of the course and my colleagues from all over the world who shared their experience and ideas.
  • Anonymous
    Is very important this course because the online learning will be for the rest of the life's, by the reason of COVID-19 and the possibilities of mutation of viruses. This course was full, according the title. I like me much. Much thanks for all.
  • Anonymous
    It was remarkable course full of intertainment ,knowledge and interactive update your skills and enlarge your technological utilities,do not hesitate to take this course you are going to be expert in online teaching
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    Anké Jansen Van Rensburg
    I love the flexibility of the course and the fact that there are so many resources and strategies shared. Getting great advice from international colleagues is also a big help! Thank you!
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    Seth Leibowitz
    Excellent course to help navigate the landscape of today and how to teach our students best. I recommend this to everyone.
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    Oleksandra Zanina
    Great course. Easily accessible on laptop or phone. The biggest bonuses of this course are that's FREE and comunity based
  • Anonymous
    Lack of engagement, interaction and tools to teach online. A good example though of what online teaching shouldn't be.
  • Anonymous
    Course is awesome. Educators and teachers made very great content made they put on lots of efforts.i learned lots of information from this course. I will share this content to my peer groups. I noted all the information. And I will implement the techniques. I learned from this course well being and how to maintain good health. I also learned how controlling exam tensions. I learned lesson plans.how keeping continuity to the students on subject. Assessment and feedback back technique now I know because of this course.Honestly feedback techniques is very useful and great. Everyone must know this topic. From now onwards I will plan to implement these techniques. Once's again I thanked to all of your educators.
  • Anonymous
    The course was very informative & interesting. I enjoyed the course and gained quite much knowledge from the same.
    I am sure I will be able to applying the knowledge into my career as well and will share the same with my students and colleagues as well. I will select few more courses from your site and will complete the same. I got quite many ideas from the course e.g., time management, lesson planning & obviously my favourite engaging the students to their core subject with the rightful knowledge they need. Thank you for such a wonderful learning experiences.
    Kudos.
  • Anonymous
    HOW TO TEACH ONLINE FUTURELEARN, Providing Continuity for Students

    First of all I do appreciated all your efforts, as you mention this course was done “in the rush”, to HELP us, for that thank you very much, one comment: I notice one mistake, there is a letter “a “ missing in the word education.

    Punto 1.9 How to be a Better Online Teacher: Advice Guide Adults

    Flower Danby in the Chronicle of Higher Eduction This article includes ‘10 essential principles and practices of better online teaching’

  • Daniel Martins Aragão
    I think there were too many links and articles to be read. So it made me take it longer. Because I wanted to read most of them, taking notes, trying them and even reading other links too. But it was great, because it has given me so many ideas. And as I had mentioned on a comment before I understood that teaching online is just another way of guiding students, and finding approaches is and should be a continuous way for us teacher to help students on the teaching/learning process, which basics are the fundamental key to our work.
  • Anonymous
    I took this course to familiarize with online teaching because I'm getting ready to take a test to qualify for a teaching position. I learned a lot, not only about the contents of the course, but the structure of it also helped me understand the different requirements of online teaching. Very flexible, loads of resources to investigate and a great community to reflect progress. Completely recomended!!!
  • Anonymous
    The course was quite sufficient to cater for the needs of any teachers who would start to teach online. It provides the information and resources needed. It is suitable not only for primary or secondary level teachers but also higher education instructors who are in need of searching information about how and where to start off teaching online. Thanks and kind regards to the course developers.
  • Anonymous
    Very useful course for those who want to teach online. There are many tips regarding active involvement of students , use of new technology, students feedback and assessment, taking care of students health & safety etc. They have shared lots of resources useful to make online teaching more interesting, innovative , participate, encouraging , less-stressful, developing and many more.
  • Anonymous
    I already completed the review and I have completed the the class three times. I appreciate the information , but it has no end. How do you earn a certificate. I completed all the exercises and participated in all the discussions, but can't receive a certificate. So although it was helpful it is also a waste of TIME!
  • Anonymous
    One should visit this site and must do these courses. It helps us in every sort and I have been the student in this quarantine. As a teacher I faced a lot of difficulties of conducting the online session but now I'm familiar of these trick and using the strategies in my classroom.

    Regards,

    Sana Ikram
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