How Will Covid-19 Affect the Future of Online Education?
The pandemic has put online education in the spotlight and under the magnifying glass.
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4 Reasons to Translate Your LearnDash Course
Translating your online course is easier than ever with the new WPML integration.
How to Choose a Kid-Friendly Design for Your Course
Whether you’re working from a template or building from scratch, these design principles for children will help you create a better course for kids.
Have You Created an Accessible Online Course?
With so many in-person courses moving online, here’s how to make sure all your learners can access them.
8 Tips to Help Your Learners Succeed in Their First Online Course
Are your students struggling to finish their semester from home? Here are some online study tips to help them out.
Using Retrieval Practice to Boost Learning Retention
Practice makes perfect. But do your learners ever practice learning?
Why Your LMS Needs to Remain User-Focused
Does Your LMS Encourage Learners to Take Control of Their Learning?
Tips for Writing Smarter E-Learning Quizzes
Better E-Learning Quizzes Result in Better Knowledge Retention
How to Create Online Volunteer Training Courses for Non-Profits
What information should your online volunteer training cover?
4 Misconceptions about Millennials that Are Damaging Your Online Course
If you want to market your online course to Millennials, you need to know your audience.
5 Ways to Interact with Your Online Students
Offering interactions with your students can enhance their learning experience. Online courses have many advantages: they fit very easily into students’ schedules, they are usually more affordable than courses offered by brick and mortar schools, and they are ideal for those who have caring or parenting responsibilities. While focusing on these benefits is great, I…
8 Productivity Tips for Online Course Creators
In the face of distractions sabotaging your concentration, the following tips can help you focus on building the best online course in a timely fashion. Building an online course requires consistent dedication. If you want your course to be as good as it can possibly be, you will need to devote time to ensuring that…
Universities Use YouTube for Recruitment
As tuition costs skyrocket, universities are looking for innovative ways to attract students – and not necessarily for a four-year degree. The concept of getting a bachelors degree is still very much part of culture (especially here in the United States). To say that the traditional method of getting a formal education is “dying” would…
Steal this Sales Copy Formula to Sell More Courses!
You have created an online course and are ready to share it with the world – but can you convince people to buy? Your course is complete, your website is up, and now there’s only one thing left to do—reel in customers for your amazing course. But that’s easier said than done… how do you…
4 Key Considerations when Creating an Online Course
Online courses are a fantastic way to transfer your expertise into the willing hands and minds of would-be students. However, starting one can be easier said than done. How do you quantify and “package” a span of information that for you likely comes as second nature? While creating an online course can seem challenging at…
Online Learning for Children and Young Adults
Children learn differently from adults. Here’s how to design an online course that plays to their strengths. The most fundamental demographic decision any online educator needs to make has to do with age. Are you teaching kids and teens, or adults? We’ve written already about some of the fundamental characteristics of adult learners, but as…
How to Teach Cooking Online, Part IV: Resources
Ready to start your own online cooking course? Here’s a few more resources to help you out. Note: This blog is part of a series. Don’t miss: Part I: Finding Your Angle Part II: Live Teaching Part III: Marketing and Engagement One thing we’ve learned from researching options for online culinary instruction is that while…
How to Teach Cooking Online, Part II: Live Teaching
With cooking, timing is everything. So how can you plan a live lesson when you need to cook at the same time? Note: This blog is part of a series. Don’t miss Part I: “Finding Your Angle.” Shortly after graduating high school, I spent a year taking cooking courses at a community college. Two semesters…
How to Market Your Course to Millennials and Gen Z
Demographics matter for e-learning. Here’s how to make sense of them—and market your course accordingly. Generations are always a bit nebulous. While we tend to discuss them in discrete groups (Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z), the reality is that these generations blend together, and that the transitions from one generation to the next can…
8 Ways to Flip the Classroom for Your Online Course
Wondering how to use the flipped classroom effectively for your blended classroom? The traditional classroom structure has teachers delivering lectures during class time, and learners working on problem sets at home. However, online classes offer instructors a way to reverse that scenario by delivering class lecture content over the Internet, and using class time to…
