Uncommon Sense Teaching: Teaching Online
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Taught by Dr. Barbara Oakley, David Joyner, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski
Social SciencesPersonal Development
About the course
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 w
The consensus
Every one of the 20 reviews we read gave it 4★ or more. This is the most-upvoted one (1 vote).
“A great level knowledge has been impacted on me through the course.”
Coursera's 4.9 comes from 71 ratings. Of those, 0.0% are 1–2★.
Starisk reads the reviews learners voted most helpful, and weights each by the square root of its votes: a review with 80 upvotes counts about five times one with 2. Unvoted reviews are not skipped out of laziness — by this model they carry no evidence that other students endorsed them.
That measures what the most-endorsed reviews say, not “true quality.” The rating distribution above is the whole population, so you can see the sample next to it.
Reviews read on 23 Oct 2026.Read them on Coursera ↗