Abstract
Tokyo Tech faculty/staff began developing online courses for edX in 2014 by working with student teaching assistants (TAs). In 2016, Tokyo Tech received a grant from MEXT to establish a Graduate Student Assistant (GSA) educational training program via coursework and on-the-job training (OJT). Graduate Student Assistants have been actively involved in assisting instructors in teaching courses in the classroom and online forming a “learning community” with students, peers, instructors and staff. Training students to develop online courses has been accomplished using blended-learning and by OJT. In the Coronavirus era, where education has shifted to online content delivery exclusively, training TAs to create online courses is a practical way to support faculty who are teaching online, develop new online courses for the general public (outreach) as well as to train doctoral students who will become future faculty.
