Now Creating Your Own Distance Learning Courses Makes More Sense Than Ever

Distance Education Online Articles : Now Creating Your Own Distance Learning Courses Makes More Sense Than Ever by Susan Dunn, WebStrategies for Coaches & Entrepreneurs

Peope are flocking to distance learning to grow personally and professionally. When you create and teach a DL course, you help people, establish your expertise, promote your practice, and generate passive revenue.

THINGS TO KNOW

Check out copyright laws at http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html . Attach the © to your materials, and respect the copyrights of others.

Offer options - streaming video, audio, teleconference, packaged, modules, self-paced, or all. Include individualized instruction, and email interaction, and make your products licensable (another revenue stream).

Plan lesson and homework to take one hour a week, for busy adult learners. For free bridge line, go to www.konferex.com .

ADVANTAGES

You can see (or may have experienced), the tremendous advantages to DL- ·Flexibility for the student ·Access to the instructor ·Affordable and convenient ·Concentrate in privacy and convenience of own home or office ·Self-paced learning ·Ability to reach diverse individuals globally and accommodate different learning styles ·Once established, the courses run themselves

Disadvantages are mainly for those students who learn better in a real-time group situation.

WHAT & WHERE TO TEACH?

Check out sources like www.blackboard.com , and www.teleclasses.com to see what topics you have knowledge in are popular. Use a dedicated website or a 'school' like www.blackboard.com . For a free international bridge line go to: www.konferex.com. Eventually you can turn the logistics or registration and emailout over to a VA.

Create a CERTIFICATE for your students with your URL and phone number on it so when they display it, others can find you.

To jumpstart the process, hire a distance learning coach. Writing and teaching on the Internet require a new set of skills. Teaching has been called "the highest form of learning." When you teach they learn, you learn and it's a win-win situation

About the Author
©Susan Dunn, http://www.webstrategies.cc . I market and mentor coaches who want passive revenue, values-added extras, Top Tens and articles, Internet promotion, more success and a full practice. Computer remote assistance. Mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for marketing ezine. Put "checklist" for subject line.

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