A Free Stanford Course on How to Teach Online: Watch the Lectures Online

Earlier this month, Stanford's Online High School offered (in partnership with Stanford Continuing Studies) a free, five-day course "Teach Your Class Online: The Essentials." With many schools starting the next academic year online, this course found a large audience. 7,000 teachers signed up. Aimed at middle and high school teachers, the course covered "general guidelines for adapting your course to an online format, best practices for varied situations, common pitfalls in online course design, and how to troubleshoot student issues online."

The videos from "Teach Your Class Online: The Essentials" are all now available online. You can watch them in sequential order, moving from top to bottom, here. Or watch them on this Stanford hosted page. Day 1 (above) provides a general introduction to teaching online. See topics covered in Days 2-5 below.

Please feel free to share these videos with any teachers. And if anyone watches these lectures and takes good class notes (ones other teachers can use), please let us know. We would be happy to help share them with other teachers.

Finally, just to give you a little background, Stanford's Online High School has operated as a fully-online, independent, accredited high school since 2006. Stanford Continuing Studies provides open enrollment courses to adults worldwide. All of its courses are currently online.

Day 2

Getting Specific: Situations and Tools
Science: Labs in Online Pedagogy

Day 3

Online Classroom Example Clips
Building and Maintaining a Classroom
Community

Day 4

Review of Submitted Sample Lesson Drafts
Troubleshooting Obstacles to Success in the Online Environment

Day 5

Math: Using Writing Tablets and Whiteboards
Modern Languages: Tips for Highly Interactive Class During Which Students Actively Speak and Write in the Target Language
Humanities: Productive Classroom Conversations About Challenging Subjects
Closing Thoughts

How Schools Can Start Teaching Online in a Short Period of Time: Free Tutorials from the Stanford Online High School

“I Will Survive,” the Coronavirus Version for Teachers Going Online

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