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Sharing experience about online teaching: Three years ago I had to set up an online MS class in international economics. I was very inefficient in the beginning but after a while I learned a few lessons that helped the job. 1/n
This course was previously taught by @davidhummels who shared his videos with me. My reaction was: how possibly I could produce anything close to that. I learned that I should not try to replicate the best teachers, but find a way in line with my own style, taste & abilities. 2/n
Bringing my own taste, one thing that helped was a very accurate organization of course material. This is important in online teaching because students will always know precisely what to read/watch/listen from where and how they are connected to HW. 3/n
I ended up giving them a weekly study guide. This is for the 1st part. 4/n
In recording videos, divide a lecture into many sub-lectures, each 10-15 min. Students& #39; span of attention is short. This also helps later if you want to reshuffle the organization of material. Also helps to redo a video. Imagine sth goes terribly bad min 45 vs min 10. 5/n
Accept that sometimes you might misspeak during a video, or have a long pause to regain focus, or are somehow far from perfection. If you don& #39;t, you build a bad habit of wanting to record a video again and again. 6/n
Do not try to edit your videos, like cutting the parts you don& #39;t like and such. That& #39;s another bad habit that will slow you down. Also, imperfections here and there make your online videos feel more natural. 7/n
If you are recording on slides, do not write in the first slide: Econ 450 - Fall 2020. Write it in the caption of your video. You may want to use your videos in the future and in a different class! 8/n
Try to provide a short motivation slide/note/video before teaching a topic. In online, students easily get confused the motivation for things they are learning. For example, this is what I share before assigning @rodrikdani (JEP, 2000). https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.14.1.177">https://www.aeaweb.org/articles... n/n
