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Humanities, social sciences & education · 84Beginner
Online Teacher
Teachers or trainers teaching online or in hybrid mode.
Foundations of virtual instruction, strategies and assessment in the virtual classroom, creating videos and infographics, then generative AI for teaching.
116hours of coursework
12weeks at 10 h
3steps
12courses
3universities
Target skills
Instructional StrategiesStudent EngagementTeachingDigital pedagogyInstructional DesignEducation Software and TechnologyPedagogyLesson PlanningAI literacyParent CommunicationInstructingPlanning
Skill labels as listed on Coursera.
Target jobs
- Online teacher
- Remote trainer
- Online tutor
Progression
- 1University of California, IrvineBeginnerLearning Management Systems, Collaborative Software
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
Show the 5 courses
Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Foundations of Virtual Instruction — 13 h 4.5 (1,500) Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom — 7 h 4.6 (671) Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom — 9 h 4.6 (585) Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom — 11 h 4.7 (515) Virtual Teacher Final Project Beginner 4 h 4.7 (234) - 2Macquarie UniversityBeginnerCanva
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
Show the 3 courses
Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Online education: The foundations of online teaching Beginner 20 h 4.7 (316) Create video, audio and infographics for online learning Beginner 20 h 4.8 (109) Online teaching: Using Zoom to connect with learners Beginner 16 h 4.8 (78) - 3Vanderbilt UniversityBeginnerChatGPT
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Generative AI Primer Beginner 2 h 4.8 (504) Innovative Teaching with ChatGPT Beginner 2 h 4.8 (696) GPT Vision: Seeing the World through Generative AI Beginner 3 h 4.8 (250) Trustworthy Generative AI Beginner 9 h 4.8 (1,160)
With Coursera Plus
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Projects to build
Video lesson
Produce a five-minute video lesson and an infographic for a hard concept.
AI use policy
Write a class policy on generative AI, with allowed and forbidden examples.
Free textbooks
Teaching in a Digital Age, 3rd ed.A. W. (Tony) BatesFree online
Foundations of Learning and Instructional Design TechnologyEdTech BooksFree, CC BY