Writing to Teach - Creating Effective Online Courses with Terri Main

Business Writing to Teach - Creating Effective Online Courses with Terri Main

Level
Mixed
Basic and Premium Members Prices
Member Price: $40.00
Category
  1. Business
  2. Marketing
  3. Writer's Life
Class Length
4 Weeks
The online learning sector of the economy is expected to generate more than $300 billion in revenue this year. In the US, more than 60 percent of all students are taking some sort of online course.

This isn't limited to colleges and universities. Many, if not most, of those courses are being offered by independent teachers or commercial educational websites.

Someone has to write those courses. It might as well be you. This course will show you how to create your first online course the way professional educators do. Taught by a seasoned professional with more than 20 years of experience in online education both as a college professor and an independent online educator.

The course will lead you through the process of creating an online course and show you ways to promote it.
  • Choosing and Narrowing a Topic
  • Creating an Ideal Student Profile
    Setting Course: Creating Behavioral Objectives for Your Course
  • Researching Your Course
  • Creating a Course Outline
    Creating Individual Lesson Plans
  • Designing and Writing Course Content
  • Engaging your student through application
  • Social Learning: Connecting your students to one another.
  • Promoting Your Course
Class Format
Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.

The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.

Please note that you do NOT need to be online at a specific time to access the lectures. This is NOT a live video based class.
Author
terrimain
Start date
Feb 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
End date
Mar 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Registration end date
Feb 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Rating
4.25 star(s) 24 ratings

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