Course introduction

Future Learn provides this course on “How to Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students” in the time of COVID-19 pandemic. So, discover practical ways here to teach and support your students online.

With the spread of coronavirus pandemic, there has been a growing shift towards teaching online as schools and universities closed. Even for experienced instructors and teachers, the existing situation presents challenges. However, with the right knowledge, you can remove the hurdles caused by teaching online and embrace its possibilities.

This course will give you practical steps toward online teaching and student support. You can look at your own work, adapt your approaches, and share your stories with a global community of educators who’ll help you get started and keep going in times of uncertainty.

Course quick details:

Course developer & provider: Future Learn

Instruction language: English

Mode: Self-paced

Subject: Teaching

Price: Free

Digital upgrade: Free

Duration: 3 weeks (2 hours/week)

Start date: Flexible

Course instructors:

1. Matt Jenner

Head of Learning at FutureLearn.

2. Felicity Parsisson

Parsisson is a Learning Designer at FutureLearn.

3. Monty King

King is a former English language teacher, now a Learning Designer for FutureLearn.

What you will learn:

After taking this course, you‘ll be able to:

• Create plans to set your students up for success
• Generate and share approaches and techniques for maintaining continuity while moving teaching and learning online
• Reflect on the benefits and problems of moving classes from face-to-face to online
• Identify methods and approaches for engaging your students online.
• Adjust your practice to the online context
• Gather, review and evaluate student feedback on your new approaches
• Talk about how to manage the personal impact of teaching online.

Who can enroll?

This course is of utmost usefulness for educators, teachers, lecturers, and trainers who have to speedily move from face-to-face to online teaching in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

 Course syllabus

This course takes three weeks to complete.

1^st week: start teaching online

2^nd week: maintaining student trust and engagement

3^rd week: from a response course to a community course

More details on content can be found here.

Course benefits

• Shareable certificate
• 100% online and full access to the course

• It includes any articles, videos, peer reviews and quizzes
• A PDF certificate of Achievement to certify your success when you’re eligible

How to apply?

You can join this course by completing registration in the given link.