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instructor

A Schema.org Property
A person assigned to instruct or provide instructional assistance for the CourseInstance.

Values expected to be one of these types

Used on these types

Examples

Example 1
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Example notes or example HTML without markup.
<body>
<!-- A MOOC created by an Institution, offered through a MOOC platform, with named instructor -->
<!-- Based on https://www.coursera.org/course/datascitoolbox -->

<main>
  <h1>The Data Scientist's Toolbox</h1>
  <h2>
    Johns Hopkins University
  </h2>
  <h2>About this Course</h2>
  <div>
    <h2>Instructors</h2>
    <div>
      <a href="http://example.org/instructor/~315" >
        <p>Jeff Leek, PhD</p>
        <div>Associate Professor, Biostatistics</div>
        <div>Bloomberg School of Public Health </div>
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</main>
</body>
Example encoded as RDFa embedded in HTML.
<body vocab="https://schema.org/">
<!-- A MOOC created by an Institution, offered through a MOOC platform, with named instructor -->
<!-- Based on https://www.coursera.org/course/datascitoolbox -->

<main typeof="Course">
  <h1 property="name">The Data Scientist's Toolbox</h1>
  <h2 property="provider" typeof="EducationalOrganization">
    <span property="name">Johns Hopkins University</span>
  </h2>
  <h2>About this Course</h2>
  <div rel="hasCourseInstance" typeof="CourseInstance">
    <meta property="courseMode" content="MOOC" />
    <meta property="courseMode" content="online" />
    <span rel="offers" typeOf="Offer">
      <meta property="price" content="0" />
      <meta property="offeredBy" content="Coursera">
    </span>
    <h2  >Instructors</h2>
    <div property="instructor" typeof="Person">
      <a property="url" href="http://example.org/instructor/~315" >
        <p  property="name">Jeff Leek, PhD</p>
        <div property="jobTitle" >Associate Professor, Biostatistics</div>
        <div  property="worksFor" >Bloomberg School of Public Health </div>
      </a>
    </div>
  </div>
</main>
</body>
Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Course",
  "hasCourseInstance": {
    "@type": "CourseInstance",
    "courseMode": [
      "MOOC",
      "online"
    ],
    "instructor": {
      "@type": "Person",
      "jobTitle": "Associate Professor, Biostatistics",
      "name": "Jeff Leek, PhD",
      "url": {"@id": "http://example.org/instructor/~315"},
      "worksFor": "Bloomberg School of Public Health "
    },
    "offers": {
      "@type": "Offer",
      "offeredBy": "Coursera",
      "price": "0"
    }
  },
  "name": "The Data Scientist's Toolbox",
  "provider": {
    "@type": "EducationalOrganization",
    "name": "Johns Hopkins University"
  }
}
</script>
Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.