Online Course Creation: 6 Things Teachers Must Consider

Creating an online course is one skill every 21^st century teacher should master to an ultimate benefit.                                                                                   

Mind you! The online course industry today is already a $200+ billion market, and a lot of people are already making a buck out of it. Teachers have enough resources that qualify them to be part of this global cake.

But then, there are one or two things every online course creator must know in order to excel in the game. For teachers, there are much more to know about online course creation before one ventures into it.

This post is a brief guide on 6 major things to consider before going into online course creation.

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    1.  Profession

When I say ‘profession’, I am referring to your career path- that area you’re seen as an authority.

Now let me make it clearer to you. Do you know there are many online courses today offering different aspect of learning? In fact, whatever thing you want to talk about has already been discussed by some other persons before now.

Does this dampen your spirit? It should not. All I am trying to tell you is that there is one thing your potential online audience want to know about you before they trust you with their time, and possibly, money. What is that thing?

They want to be sure you’re telling them what you know by experience and not just ‘copy and paste’.

So, if you’re a teacher, create a course that defines your profession. That’s the only way they can trust you as an expert. Once they repose such confidence in you, even if you teach ‘scrap’, they would still consider it a scrap from an expert in the field.

Have you not seen so many of such ‘scraps’ online and you wonder how on earth people are rushing and paying for it.

Guess, you understand now!

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    2.  People

The people here refers to your target audience. Be sure of this truism: there is no single course that appeals to the whole world, no matter how important you think that topic might be.

If you like, create a course on ‘how to live’, the truth is that a lot of persons out there are looking for ‘how to die’, so your course can never appeal to them.

Simply put, narrow your target audience- those who truly need what you have to offer.

You must know them as well as know how to locate them. That your target audience are teachers does not mean that every teacher would be interested in your offer.

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 3.  Presentation

Now that you’re ready- you’ve identified what you want to teach in your online course; you’ve also located your target audience- how do you present your course to your learners?

You’re thinking! Is it going to be a membership course… or a video course (just send them tutorial videos periodically)… or a multimedia combo (video, pdf downloads, worksheet, videoconferencing etc).

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4.  Platform

Your online course is not built on air. There must be a hosting platform.

Here again, your target audience comes to mind. You don’t choose a platform just because it appeals to you; you rather choose a platform because it’s going to offer both convenience and coverage for your target audience.

There are many wonderful online course platforms out there, such as Thinkific, Teachable, Udemy, just to mention but a few.

But think about this: if you’re tutoring locals and/or less digitally-literate persons, do you think those platforms would be the best?

Another way to look at it is this way: What platform should you go with when dealing with those who are more digitally-enlightened?

One more question: what if you have an audience made up persons with diverse interest and status? Guess, you would cut one arm to retain the other?

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5.  Publicity

Your online course is ready!

But nobody knows about it… So, how do you get the word out there?

Do you think by merely sharing links on all social media forums would be enough! Yes! You have to do that, but that’s not enough. Your audience need a bait!

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6.  Profit

The question here is: what do you intend to gain by creating your first online course?

Okay! Just ask me: Chima, what do you intend to gain by creating a free online course? 

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Yes! Some courses are paid courses, so you know the course creator has possibly made money. But what of those free courses you see everywhere online; what’s the profit?

In fact, I want you to create your first online course free.

But you should never do that until you’re through with this FREE ONLINE COURSE.

You have to consider all these points before going into online course creation as a teacher.

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