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Uncommon Sense Teaching: Teaching Online
  • Level Foundation
  • Duration 15 hours
  • Course by Deep Teaching Solutions
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About

In Uncommon Sense Teaching: TEACHING ONLINE we’d like to help you to move toward fresh approaches to online teaching that build on the latest insights from scientific research. We’ll use insights from movie-making—not to mention from odd visual tricks in Barb’s kitchen—to see how students learn, both independently and together. We all know, for example, that social learning is valuable in helping students grapple with tough concepts as well as in making learning more fun. But if you understand what is happening in the brain during social learning, you can also understand why certain approaches commonly used in online learning, such as discussion forums, can sometimes pose a challenge. As you will see, we can use insights from neuroscience not only to motivate our students, but to help them change their very identity. Our course is designed for university professors, vocational instructors, K-12 teachers, coaches, business trainers, parents, and in fact, anyone who is trying to teach concepts or skills online. We're not just talking about traditional academic materials—if you’ve ever considered teaching a course on Udemy, putting up a video series on YouTube, or launching your own educational blog, this course is also for you. An essential and exciting point is that students can learn even BETTER online than they can in the traditional face-to-face classroom. That’s whether you’re teaching synchronously—that is, live, via a platform like Zoom; or you’re teaching asynchronously—that is, any time—by having videos and other teaching materials accessible to students whenever they want. You can take this course independently from the other two "Uncommon Sense Teaching" courses in this specialization—some of the neuroscience- and cognitive-psychology-based insights we’ll mention here in simple ways are explored more deeply in those other courses. So feel free to take the other two courses in the specialization in conjunction with or after this course. If you’ve already taken the other two courses, you’ll find that this course reviews and extends the practical insights from neuroscience you’ve already received in unexpected new directions. And you’ll find even deeper insights we haven’t covered before. In TEACHING ONLINE you'll be joining a trio of experienced online instructors who have taught millions in some of the world's most popular online courses. One of our deepest goals for this course is to help YOU to teach others to improve their ability to reach and teach students. We’ve loaded the animations and visuals we've developed for this course online in PowerPoints (licensed under Creative Commons) in the assets under the videos, as well as in the resources section. You can rework these PowerPoints as you wish to reteach this material to your colleagues and students. Your sharing and resharing of this material is one of the best things you can do to help us all move teaching and learning forward to a visionary future. YOU are the foundation—children, adults, and society as a whole can leap ahead because of your desire to learn and spread these new ideas!

Modules

Week 1, Lesson 1: Dive into the Practicalities of Your Online Teaching—Along with Learning About Schemas

    • 4 Videos
    • 3 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 2 Assignment
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2 Assignment

  • Sample Onboarding Quiz—Give It a Try Yourself!
  • Week 1, Lesson 1: Dive into the Practicalities of Your Online Teaching

1 Discussions

  • Your Uncommon Calling

4 Videos

  • 1: Introduction to Teaching Online
  • 2: Schemas and the Expertise Reversal Effect
  • 3: Low-stakes Onboarding Quizzes and Avoiding the Horrors of Goodhart’s Law
  • 4: Create a Quick Walkthrough of Your Course

3 Readings

  • Course Syllabus
  • Guidance in Applying for Continuing Education or Professional Development Credit
  • Week 1, Lesson 1: Dive into the Practicalities of Your Online Teaching—Along with Learning About Schemas

Week 1, Lesson 2: Uncovering Why Students Can Be Tough to Motivate

    • 3 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 1, Lesson 2: Uncovering Why Students Can Be Tough to Motivate

3 Videos

  • 5: Schemas of Identity Can Provide Motivation—or Demotivation
  • 6: The Imposter Syndrome in Online Teaching
  • 7: Week 1 Wrap-up

1 Readings

  • Week 1, Lesson 2: Uncovering Why Students Can Be Tough to Motivate

Week 2, Lesson 1: The Surprising Role of Habit in Online Teaching

    • 4 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 2, Lesson 1: The Surprising Role of Habit in Online Teaching

4 Videos

  • 1: On (and Off) Camera Habits and the Declarative-Procedural Learning Systems: Why Knowing and Doing are Not the Same Thing
  • 2: Lights, Camera, Action—Oops!
  • 3: You're Ready for Your Closeup—Wait, Too Close!
  • 4: Breaking Bad Habits When It Comes to Teaching Online—and in Everyday Life

1 Readings

  • Week 2, Lesson 1: The Surprising Role of Habit in Online Teaching

Week 2, Lesson 2: Mental Models & Online Learning

    • 6 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 2, Lesson 2: Mental Models & Online Learning

6 Videos

  • 5: Talk to the Hand—the Power of Gesture to Help Form Mental Models
  • 6: Diving Deeper into Mental Models
  • 7: Catching Continuity Errors at the Movies—How Mental Models Arise
  • 8: Predicting Effective Online Strategies—Insight from Mental Models & More
  • 9: How Long Should Online Videos Be? More Insight from Mental Models
  • 10: Week 2 Wrap-up

1 Readings

  • Week 2, Lesson 2: Mental Models & Online Learning

Honors Lesson

    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Critique Someone Else's Online Video!

Week 3, Lesson 1: Retrieval Practice, Mental Models, and Schemas

    • 5 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 3, Lesson 1: Retrieval Practice, Mental Models, and Schemas

5 Videos

  • 1: Today's Online Learners Have No Time to Waste
  • 2: What Do Retrieval Practice and Spaced Repetition Have to Do with Mental Models? Or Good Online Teaching?
  • 3: Skirting Around the Complexity of Working Memory & Mental Models
  • 4: Retrieval Practice Helps Solidify Both Simple and Complex Events in Schemas
  • 5: Cognitive Load—If the Event is Too Complicated, Watch Out!

1 Readings

  • Week 3, Lesson 1: Retrieval Practice, Mental Models, and Schemas

Week 3, Lesson 2: Using & Encouraging Retrieval Practice Apps in Your Courses

    • 5 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 3, Lesson 2: Using & Encouraging Retrieval Practice Apps in Your Courses

5 Videos

  • 6: How to Use Retrieval Practice Apps to Encourage Collaboration
  • 7: How to Use a Specific Retrieval Practice App (iDoRecall) in Your Coursera Courses
  • 8: How to Solicit Live, Monitored Retrieval Practice from Every Student in a Class Simultaneously (Pear Deck™)
  • 9: Working Memory, Non-Native Speakers, and Barb’s Personal Experiences with Retrieval Practice
  • 10: Week 3 Wrap-up

1 Readings

  • Week 3, Lesson 2: Using & Encouraging Retrieval Practice Apps in Your Courses

Week 4, Lesson 1: Attention and Creating a Social Partnership

    • 8 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 4, Lesson 1: Focus, Suspense, and Creativity

8 Videos

  • 1: Focused versus Diffuse Thinking
  • 2: Attention—How to Get It, and Why You Want to Sometimes Lose It
  • 3: Why Editing Your Own Videos Can Be a Good Idea
  • 4: It's Good to Leave Them Hanging! The Value of Suspense
  • 5: Humor Does NOT Mean Being a Comedian
  • 6: Creating a Social Partnership
  • 7: Teleprompters and Giant Frogs
  • 8: The Paradox of Self-Focus

1 Readings

  • Week 4, Lesson 1: Focus, Suspense, and Creativity

Week 4, Lesson 2: The Value of Student-Student Interaction

    • 4 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Final examination

4 Videos

  • 9: Mental Model and Schema Sharing
  • 10: Jolts of Joy
  • 11: The Challenge of Discussion Forums
  • 12: Wrap-up, Learning as Therapy—and As Preparation for the Future

1 Readings

  • Week 4, Lesson 2: The Value of Student-Student Interaction

Course Wrap Up

    • 1 Readings
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1 Readings

  • Ratings and Where to Go from Here!

Honors Lesson

    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Create Your Own Instructional Video!

Auto Summary

"Uncommon Sense Teaching: Teaching Online" is a Coursera course focused on innovative online teaching methods based on scientific research. Perfect for educators at all levels, including university professors, K-12 teachers, coaches, and even parents. Led by experienced instructors, the course covers neuroscience insights to enhance social learning and motivate students. The content includes practical tips, animations, and visual aids, with a duration of approximately 15 hours. Available through a Starter subscription, this foundational course aims to revolutionize online education and empower educators to transform their teaching approach.

Dr. Barbara Oakley
Instructors

Dr. Barbara Oakley

David Joyner
Instructors

David Joyner

Dr. Terrence Sejnowski
Instructors

Dr. Terrence Sejnowski