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If you are someone who speaks or aspires to speak at professional and industry conferences or similar events, then it is almost certain you will need to record a virtual presentation at some point. To do that you could, of course, just fire up Zoom and record yourself narrating a slide deck, possibly with your …
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Looking to create and sell your very first online course? If so, then you should be prepared for a little trial and error; crafting and structuring an online course takes a great deal of planning and preparation—and your efforts aren’t going to be perfect the first time around. Still, you can increase your student satisfaction …
Teaching adult learners has many potential advantages over teaching younger students. For one, your learners have much more life experience, and this experience can be leveraged as part of the knowledge that is shared among the participants in your class. Also, leaving aside situations where workers are required to take mandatory training (e.g., to comply …
I’ve written before that the core of the business model for successful edupreneurs is empowerment, which basically comes down to asking – and answering – questions like “How will I make life better for my learners?” and “How will I empower them to do what they want to be able to do?” If you don’t …
The e-learning industry has experienced huge growth in recent years, but online courses still struggle to retain learners through to course completion. Studies show the average completion rate for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is only around 15 percent. Even a successful course will struggle to achieve more than 40 percent completion. Low levels of …
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I was running around the stage spouting gibberish while another student translated what I said into normal English. I am sure I looked and sounded like a compete idiot, no two ways about it. Somewhere in the back of my mind was the uncomfortable realization that anyone in the audience could film this and post …
Adult learning theory and adult learning principles: If you aim to sell online courses or other types of education to adult lifelong learners, you need to give yourself a crash course in these topics. Today. One of the downsides of any rapidly growing market is that a lot of junk gets fed into it. The …
An article in the Wall Street Journal a while back highlighted how corporate training programs are often a waste of time and money. With “little practical follow-up or meaningful assessments,” the article argued, “some 90% of new skills are lost within a year.” You can debate the validity of the research highlighted in the article if you want, …
