online teaching

These are the courses that FutureLearners across the UK have been joining the most over the past week. Psychology courses are particularly popular at the moment, with Sensation and Perception, The Psychology of Personality and Psychological First Aid all trending. Plus, there’s more in...

Following the outbreak of COVID-19, many higher education institutions are having to move courses and lectures online, leaving many teachers and universities feeling underprepared. In response, The Open University (OU), a world leader in flexible distance learning, has announced a new Online...

Monty King, Learning Designer at FutureLearn, shares insights from the free online course ‘How To Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students’, and offers some tips if you’re new to online learning. Teaching Online How to Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students was built in response...

In the light of the challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers and educators are having to take their teaching online to meet the immediate skills and knowledge needs of their pupils and students. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are the perfect resource for teachers and...

Overview This course is designed to help you create dynamic, interactive online courses through the use of multimedia tools, student collaboration opportunities, and formative assessment and feedback. Each week we will focus on a particular topic: 1. Using multimedia for teaching and learning...

Overview For three decades and longer we have heard educators and technologists making a case for the transformative power of technology in learning. However, despite the rhetoric, in many ways and at most institutional sites, education is still relatively untouched by technology. Even when...

Overview Are you an educator? Have you ever wanted to understand more about how to design your class to make better use of educational technology – whether fully online or in blended contexts? Would you like to learn from those who have extensive practical experience with online technologies...

Overview This course provides teachers with the foundation for understanding the movement towards virtual instruction. It introduces fundamental knowledge needed by teachers to succeed in a technology-dependent, instructional environment. You will explore the history of online learning and...

Overview Emerging technologies are quickly gaining momentum in the field of virtual K-12 instruction. In this course, we will explore how the latest trends in the use of technology affect student learning and engagement. What innovative learning spaces and tools are available to instructors? How...

Overview This course will help you ‘up’ your game and develop the advanced level skills and techniques that elude even some of the most experienced virtual teachers. We will examine the pitfalls beginning teachers run into and learn how to overcome them by focusing on the fundamentals that have...

Overview Effective measures of performance and assessment are a crucial component of any virtual program. Teachers and administrators must understand both the myths and challenges of assessing performance virtually, administering standardized testing with geographical challenges, and complying...

Overview How might digital learning change the future of education? The demand for digital learning (and the experts who can deliver it) continues to grow rapidly. In this course you’ll examine what online learning is, who needs it, who creates it and why.  From the perspective of ‘teaching as...

Overview Teaching English Online Is it time for a new online direction in your teaching career? Teaching English online is becoming more popular all over the world, giving learners and teachers flexibility in where and how they develop English language skills. Join our course to find out about...