Why Go Nomadic?
Nomadic Courses go far beyond the names and dates from the past.
Enrich your learning
The mini-lectures for Dr. Jackson’s history courses aren’t filmed from behind a desk. Indeed, they’re entirely unbounded by the walls of a traditional classroom. By delivering lessons on-location all over the world, the Nomadic Professor brings the settings of history to life for the student, making for a more engaging online learning experience.
Customize your course
Start on your time
Don't wait for an enrollment period, begin a Nomadic course when you're ready. Our step-by-step guidance and real-time support will give you a virtual experience with all of the structure of an in-person experience.
Set your own pace
Our courses are designed to be completed in 4-6 months, but the question of time is ultimately up to you. You’ll get plenty of help staying on track or getting back on track through our detailed instructions, live support, and vibrant community.
Study flexibly
Utilize every support the course offers, or choose which supports help you meet your goals. Fill out the guided notes, take the quizzes, and earn a grade; or just listen along to the audio version. You can adapt the content to meet your interests and constraints.
Choose your level
Build your high school transcript with one of three tracks: basic, standard, or advanced. The advanced track will prepare you to ace college-credit exams like the CLEP or AP. All three tracks meet the hours requirement to claim high school credit.
Become a master student
Being a good student is a learned skill. Take a Nomadic course to learn how to take notes, how to track key ideas, how to integrate key terms into your vocabulary, how to do research, how to summarize big ideas, how to tease implications out of nuanced language, how to come at an argument from more than one point of view, and more.
Learn the basics
Take notes with confidence
Graduate to taking notes on a blank page by first being guided through a Nomadic course with fillable guided notes. Learn how to build your own effective pages of notes after months of modeling and support.
Integrate key vocabulary terms
Use the NP's unique "structure method" to connect every vocabulary term to every other. Build a network of understanding that will allow you to connect the past to the present in a way that is truly original.
Memorize like a professional
The key vocabulary from every session is clearly identified and defined. Master each term using our built-in review options: printable flashcards, Quizlet flashcards and games, and gradable quizzes.
Practice every step in the research process
From a blank page and no ideas, to a completed undergraduate level research paper with a compelling thesis, learn every step in the research and writing process, from search engines to final drafts, and everything in between.
Become manipulation-proof
Study rich and nuanced historical sources to learn how to identify bias, assess reliability, contextualize time and place, and corroborate evidence. Transfer these highly practical skills to every other domain: reading online, chatting with friends, listening to the news, perusing social media, having conversations around the dinner table, paying attention to advertising, and so much more.Â
Learn to be historically literate
Build knowledge and historical literacy
Our courses aim to develop (1) a broad historical knowledge base and (2) historical literacy–the advanced skills for research, reading, writing, and thinking that professional historians themselves must use to make sense of the past.
Weigh claims against evidence
While we can’t escape the narrative we find most convincing, we are forthright with students, actively training them to judge new information based on what they already know, and what evidence gets marshaled to support new claims.
Challenge simplistic narratives
We teach students the pitfalls of simplistic narratives—what makes cartoonish narratives dangerous, why we shouldn't reduce the past to comic-book stories of good versus evil, and how to make a claim without trivializing other good-faith claims.
Integrate history and language arts​
Our courses integrate history with the language arts and humanities, pairing history with its natural complements in logic, rhetoric, literature, reading, writing, research, visual literacy, and more, in one engaging and holistic curriculum.
More About Us
The Nomadic Team
Meet the globetrotting Dr. William K. Jackson and veteran High School teacher Nate Noorlander. Click here.
Nomadic Partners
Check out our growing list of fabulous partners, which include prominent leaders in the educational sphere. Click here.
In the Media
We've been grateful to amass acclaim for our courses from far and wide. Peruse our reviews by clicking here.
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