About The Nomadic Professor
The Nomadic Professor specializes in online high school history courses. The courses are secular and non-partisan, focusing on training students to appreciate nuance while engaging them through on-location video lectures featuring the globe-trotting Nomadic Professor (Dr. W. Kesler Jackson). Students learn to think about historical events in context, and to tease out all of the factors that complicate a given historical moment. An emphasis on evidence and logical argument, the development of a broad knowledge base, and the on-location video element combine to make history come alive as students engage in making original judgments about the past.
The courses are rigorous but engaging, with text and audio broken up by on-location video lectures filmed all over the world—from Kyrgyzstan to Ecuador, from Mississippi to Bulgaria, from Tibet to Saudi Arabia—with additional videos constantly being added. In addition, students and teachers are supported through every course with excellent scaffolding: guided notes, document lessons with video modeling, easy-to-read rubrics, answer keys, structured vocabulary review, and training in related key concepts like logic, rhetoric, research, literature, and more.
Course Features
- Aligned with California standards
- Sample sessions available (American History, Media Literacy, The History of Free Speech)
- Secular and non-partisan
- Online
- On-location video content
- Course audio option included
- Original text
- Separate student and instructor logins and dashboards
- Daily work organized by “questions to answer”
- Gradebook w/ assignment and student management
- Fillable and/or printable PDF handouts
- Document lessons with training in primary and secondary sources
- Instructor answer keys
- Instructor handbook
- Assignment rubrics
- Daily quizzes (automatically assessed, w/ feedback)
- Quizlet or PDF flashcard vocabulary review
- Optional community for feedback and discussion with course creators and other course users
- Possible credits include history, logic, rhetoric, historical methods, writing, and literature
- 30-90 minutes a day depending on student, course, and number of sessions per week
Contact Details:
Main Address:135 Buckboard Ave
Fruitland ID, 83619