It’s been a few months since we last reported on what’s up with Udemy and other eLearning platforms. Here’s a roundup of some recent developments with Udemy and online learning. One thing’s for sure, Udemy is going nowhere except across the globe!
Author: Tom
The work associated with online course development can be a daunting prospect, especially for new online instructors. Even for experienced online instructors, keeping up with all that needs to be done to run and grow a legitimate and successful online course business can be daunting sometimes. One solution to these challenges is to outsource some of your online course development tasks. Outsourcing is the process of hiring (usually via an online job platform) someone or a team of people to do some of the online course development work.
Online training courses have become a default tool for growing almost any personal business. This is certainly for professionals who work in a field or who have a profession which lends itself naturally to “training”. Examples include author/writers, motivational speakers, in-person corporate trainers, certification experts, HR trainers, coaches, industry experts, and more.
Online presentation skills do not come naturally to every aspiring Udemy instructor. Yet your presentation skills can dramatically impact the quality and learning outcomes of your online course. Making a Udemy course is possibly one of the most complicated yet fulfilling profession. Think about it, how many times have you sat in a room listening to a presenter and found your mind wondering and yourself waiting for the talk to be over? How many bad YouTube videos have you skipped over looking for something better and more fun to watch? You don’t want your students to start feeling the same…
Spring is almost here and do you know what that means? It’s time to do some “spring cleaning” and improve your online course (s)! It’s easy to think that after a successful holiday and/or Udemy January sales run that there’s no need to improve your online course. After all, your course is selling right? (Or, perhaps it’s not?)
Learning styles are a big topic in the realms of traditional classroom education. Teachers hear a lot about different learning styles and how they should try to adapt their teaching methods to different kinds of learners. A lot of research has been done on the topic of learning styles and suggestions abound for how to cater to different learning needs in the classroom. Have you considered as an online instructor that the thousands of students who enroll in your course might have several different learning styles? You might ask yourself why do learning styles matter – it’s just a $10…
In a recent blog we provided 7 tips for marketing your online course. In that article we mentioned that in our 2019 instructor survey online course marketing and promotion was one of the most frequently cited challenges by instructors. As a continuation of our coverage of the most basic steps you can take to market your online course, we have included four more online course marketing strategies in this article.
To be Free or Not to Be Free? That is the Question. Free online courses abound. When you are thinking about creating an online course the option to price it for free is one of the first big decisions you’ll need to make. This is true whether you are new to course creation or launching a new course topic. On one hand, it seems everyone is creating courses “for free” – there must be a good reason for doing this, right? On the other hand, you will be putting a lot of time and effort into creating your course (a…
It’s pretty clear to most online course creators that email marketing is critical to course sales and success. You just have to search Quora and other forums to find disgruntled Udemy instructors who thought that simply putting their course on Udemy would bring in the income. And it’s clear from our recent instructor survey that marketing and promoting a course is a real challenge for online instructors.
Do you want to teach online? Check out this list before embarking on your online teaching journey. (5-minute read) Teach Online – An Analogy As we all know from shopping on Amazon or eBay, doing something in the physical world versus the virtual world differs in many ways. How do you shop on Amazon? Well, you’ve probably had a lot of practice shopping in the brick and mortar world. So you use what you know from that experience and then adapt it to shopping in the virtual world. Over time while shopping on Amazon, you try and learn new things…
