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    How to create an online course

    Welcome to our section about how to create online courses. We know its overwhelming in the beginning and you wonder where to start with the whole process. Well, luckily you found us and this page. Here we will publish regularly foundational and advanced articles and resources to help you get started. We want you to be absolutely ready to create online courses but there are many important topics throughout the process.

    Create a course for online platforms

    • Become clear on your objectives and goals
    • Outlining an engaging course
    • Choosing the right course style
    • Deciding on and getting the equipment ready
    • Designing Compelling Slides
    • Filming Your Course
    • Optimizing Video and Audio
    • Preparing the Course Landing page and the Launch
    and some more. Consequently, there is a lot to learn, huh? Therefore make sure to stay current with our block and this section. We will keep you posted on new developments and articles with our newsletter. So make sure you subscribe. So happy reading and create online courses that really engage students and help to make the world a better place. Get in contact if you have questions.

    Mini Course – What Is It and Why Create One?

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    Mini course do not necessarily jump to mind for most would be course instructors because on platforms such as Udemy, Skillshare and others the length of your course matters in terms of rankings, pay and credibility.   But ask yourself,

    Do you have 100 hours to spare? How about $1000?  Have you ever taught a class? How ‘bout an email list and sales funnel – is your database of contact 1000 friends strong?

    If you answered “no” to any of these questions, but you want to launch an online course, you should consider creating a “mini course”.

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    9 Tips From Successful Online Course Creators

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    Successful online course creators seem to be multiplying exponentially in recent years. Back in the early days of Udemy, earning 6 figures as an online course creator was a novel idea. Now stories abound of online course creators making big-time careers out of creating all manner of courses, and then after being so successful, helping others to propel themselves into the world of online course creation.

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    Copyright Infringement and Online Courses

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    Recently, we received a question from a reader about copyright infringement rules as it applies to online course creation.  The reader is considering creating a Udemy course but wants to base the outline, structure, examples and flow of content on a known textbook.

    The reader said that it would be obvious that the course was based on this textbook. He asked if we had experience with other instructors on the issue of copyright infringement.

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    10 Personal Development Skills Courses to Create in 2020

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    In our last article, we highlighted top workplace skills for 2020. This week, we are focusing on top personal development skills.

    Personal development skills are a hot topic in general right now. A new decade has begun and so potential learners will be thinking about what personal goals and characteristics they want to achieve in 2020 and beyond.

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    Teaching Styles – Online Course Application

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    Why Teaching Styles Matter

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    A question every online instructor should consider

    Understanding teaching styles, like learning styles, is part and parcel of being an effective teacher. We thought it suitable to follow up our previous article on learning styles with some similar advice on teaching styles and how to incorporate them into your Udemy course. 

    Why are teaching styles important to consider as an online instructor?  Well if there are a variety of learning styles, then it follows that a variety of teaching styles should be considered to adapt to the various learning styles.

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    Teach Online – 6 Steps to Prepare Yourself

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    Do you want to teach online? Check out this list before embarking on your online teaching journey. (5-minute read)

    Teach Online – An Analogy

    Ecommerce, Selling Online, Online Sales

    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 – for instance, Amazon Prime or Subscribe and Save, and then tweak your shopping experience accordingly.

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    4 Learning Science Tips for Course Creators

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    The Value of Understanding Learning Science

    The majority of Udemy course creators are not professionally trained course designers or certificated teachers.  That’s both the opportunity and challenge of being a course creator and a student on the Udemy platform.  Have an idea, a passion, an expertise?  You can simply “teach” it on Udemy. Want to learn a new skill? You can simply “learn” it on Udemy.

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    Make Your Own Video Studio for Online Courses

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    A Quick List to Get Going

    To make your own videos for Udemy courses, it’s worth putting in a little time and investment upfront to get a great and consistent quality set up to produce your courses.  The choice of equipment can be overwhelming, so here is a brief checklist that you can follow to get going on making your own online course videos. 

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    Online Learning Platforms – 5 Marketplace Comparisons

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    The Range of Online Learning Platforms

    Online learning platform solutions can be a confusing market space to navigate as an online course instructor.   Online course platforms range from “marketplaces” such as Udemy, where anyone can create and sell an online course of virtually any quality, to Coursera which partners only with educational institutions, to Thinkific and other LMS platforms that allow instructors to create a proprietary online course platform and market their online classes.

    If you want to create and sell online courses in a so-called “marketplace” like Udemy, which makes selling online courses relatively easy, you may wonder what alternatives to Udemy exist.  Given the brand recognition and market share Udemy boasts, it may be hard to figure out what other online course marketplaces exist and how they are different.  

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    Getting the most out of your voice for online courses

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    How many human senses exist? Right, there are six senses. When we talk about online teaching, instructors have to make do with only two senses: seeing and hearing. Today’s topic is about the hearing part and therefore your voice.

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