40 Tips on Making a Great Online Course
What you'll learn
- Understand solutions to 40 common online teaching problems, including advice on:
- 1: Video Quality Time Savers
- 2: Audio Quality Time Savers
- 3: Computer & Editing Software
- 4: Storage and Backups
- 5: Preparing to Record Your First Course
- 6: Re-recording Beats Over-editing
- 7: What My Video Recording Studio Looks Like
- 8: Everyone Has A Skill They Love and Can Teach
- 9: Teaching from Your Heart First
- 10 How to Know What Course to Teach Next
- 11: Adding Structure to Your Courses
- 12: Adding (Even More) Exercises
- 13: Slide Structure (Less is More)
- 14: Quality Control
- 15: Course Image, Name and Trailer
- 16: Delivery (How You Present)
- 17: Optimal Voice Strategy
- 18: Edutainment Works
- 19: Authenticity
- 20: Best Udemy Instructor to Use as a Role Model for Production Quality and Delivery
- 21: Best Udemy Instructor to Use as a Role Model for Creative Genius/Content Delivery
- 22: Promoting Your Course
- 23: Monthly Promotion Timing
- 24: Being Consistent with Your Promotions
- 25: Advertising Your Courses
- 26: Customer/Student Communications (The Customer is ALWAYS Right)
- 27: Dealing with Negative Customer Reviews
- 28: Automatic (Welcome & Thank You) Messages
- 29: Answering Questions from Students
- 30: Legal Issues: Piracy and Monitoring News Stories on Your Courses
- 31: Copyrighting Your Course (Meaning the Content Can’t be Copied…Not the Name)
- 32: Trademarking Your Course Name (Meaning Protecting the Name and Not the Content)
- 33: Teaching on Non-Udemy Platforms: Udemy is Google and Everyone Else is Bing
- 34: What to Do if Your Course Isn’t Selling
- 35: Am I Breaking the Rules?
- 36: Should I Quit My Job and Teach Full Time?
- 37: Time to Market
- 38: The Easiest Way Ever to Write a Book Version of Your Courses!!!!
- 39: It Takes Time…Rome Wasn't Built in a Day
- 40: Foreign Translation of Courses & Closed Captions
Requirements
- Nothing. This course is for anyone that wants to teach online.
Description
This course will help you save time and money when creating your online courses. Learn from my mistakes. Creating an online course is easier than you think; in this course I will humbly teach you how to work smarter (not harder) by discussing 40 tips/best practices I have learned the hard way teaching online over the past 12 months.
Topics we will cover include:
Technology to use to make your online courses
What should you teach?
Structure of your courses
Delivery (how you present/teach)
Promoting your course
Customer/student communications (the customer is always right)
Legal issues (protect your intellectual property)
What to do if your course isn’t selling
The easiest way ever to write a book version of your course!
And much more...
Please learn from my many mistakes teaching online, so I can save you time and money. In this course are 40 mistakes I made and I want you to learn from my many failures so you can get your course up and running quickly. Making an online course is so much easier than you think as you already have everything single thing that you need to build something far bigger than yourself. : )
This course will help you save time and money when creating your online courses. Learn from my mistakes. Creating an online course is easier than you think; in this course I will humbly teach you how to work smarter (not harder) by discussing 40 tips/best practices I have learned the hard way teaching online over the past 12 months.
Thanks!
Chris
Who this course is for:
- Anyone that wants to teach online. You don't have to be a teacher; all of us have at least one skill that we can teach that can enhance the lives of many.
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Please join me for my weekly Office Hours Q&A on my YouTube channel every Thursday from 8am until 10am Pacific time. Here is my bio thanks:
Chris Haroun is the founder & CEO of the 300+ hour online Haroun MBA Degree Program®, an award winning business school professor, MBA graduate from Columbia University & former Goldman Sachs employee. He has raised/managed over $1bn in his career.
He also has work experience at hedge fund giant Citadel, consulting firm Accenture & several firms that he has started, including an investment firm that had a venture capital investment in Facebook several years before the Facebook IPO.
Chris has sold more than 2,000,000 of his online business & self improvement courses in 12 languages in 196 countries and his courses have been profiled in Business Insider, NBC, Inc, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur & on other business news websites. Chris is the author of the #1 best selling online business course called "An Entire MBA in 1 Course®” & many other courses.
He’s the author of the book "101 Crucial Lessons They Don't Teach You in Business School®," which Business Insider wrote is "the most popular book of 2016." Forbes called this book "1 of 6 books that all entrepreneurs must read right now."
He is a frequent guest lecturer at several Bay Area MBA schools including Berkeley & Stanford. He also has an undergraduate degree with a major in Management Information Systems & International Business from McGill University where he is a McGill University Dobson Fellow (awarded for his work mentoring students with start up business models).
He has founded several companies & served on the boards of several Bay Area companies & charities, including The LEMO Foundation & Providing Opportunities for Women. His #1 charitable focus is currently building schools in Rwanda and other countries, as well as continuing to provide many scholarships to students all over the world.
According to Business Insider "Haroun is one of the highest rated professors on Udemy, so you can expect to be in good hands through the course of your education."
He is passionate about education as he believes that all problems can be solved via education. Chris lives in Hillsborough, California with his wife Christine and his 3 sons Andrew, Matthew and Dylan.
Chris lives by this quote: “Don’t expect to accomplish your dreams in life unless you help others accomplish theirs first.”