Running an Online Course

Perpetual Learning

Platforms like Teachable have made it easier to create online courses. With schools around the world being shut down, we’ve essentially forced ourselves to learn online.

As with anything else on the internet, there’s a lot of poor courses and a few great ones.

Will Mannon manages a couple of courses that I’ve taken including Building a Second Brain and Write of Passage.

We were in the same cohort for Write of Passage making this a special episode for both of us. Since then, he went on to join the Forte Labs team full-time and I helped create the Write of Passage Fellowship.

The goal of this podcast is to really go deep on the challenges/opportunities behind running an online course and where we see it going in the future.

Online Courses Today

• Let's talk about the different types of online courses out there. We see self-paced courses on a number of different platforms. What really sets some apart from others?
• What have students wanted to see in an online course?
• What courses have done a good job of standing out vs. others?
• Are online courses right for me?

Challenges / Opportunities

• As a consumer, what should I be looking for in an online course?
• As a business, what are the types of companies or individuals who should be looking into creating online courses?
• Where do you see online courses or perhaps even online schools going?
• Community forums can be hit or miss. As a user, how do you make the most out of private communities? On the flip side, as a facilitator, how do you get people engaged?

Running an Online Course

• What type of time commitment are we talking about to build and then run the course?
• What has surprised you the most? (especially going from being a student to instructor)

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