Uncommon Sense Teaching: Teaching Online 

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

5: Schemas of Identity Can Provide Motivation-or Demotivation

6: The Imposter Syndrome in Online Teaching

7: Week 1 Wrap-up

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

Sample Onboarding Quiz-Give It a Try Yourself!

Week 1, Lesson 1: Dive into the Practicalities of Your Online Teaching

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

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

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

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

Week 2, Lesson 2: Mental Models & Online Learning

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

Week 2, Lesson 2: Mental Models & Online Learning

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!

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 DeckTM)

9: Working Memory, Non-Native Speakers, and Barb's Personal Experiences with Retrieval Practice

10: Week 3 Wrap-up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ratings and Where to Go from Here!

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

Final examination