How to Create an Awesome Online Course

What are the benefits of Bodhih’s ‘create your own online course’ workshops?

Bodhih programs for create your own online course begins with the advantage of online courses in general.

Participants through discussions comprehend how online options today offer a variety of programs and courses. They lower total costs and have a far more comfortable learning environment with higher convenience and flexibility. Online courses not only help with work-life balance but also allow more interaction and greater ability to concentrate.

One significant reason that makes online courses popular is that students can take online courses and even complete entire degrees while working, while in-between jobs, or while taking time to raise a family. Even if someone wants to complete a degree, it may not mean they want to leave their current job.

Bodhih’s workshop on ‘create online courses to sell’ helps participants appreciate the criticality of improving technical skills including – navigating different learning management systems including creating and sharing documents, incorporating audio/video materials into assignments, completing online training sessions, etc.

Bodhih’s workshop on ‘how to create an on online course video’ by laying out the pre-requisites

Learners are encouraged to find course idea and iterate with it – along with the market!
First things first – decide what the course is about. The topics that would be included inside the main content. The depth and degree of details needs to be thought through. This activity should be iterated along with validating the market demands.

Thereafter participants need to check for market demand – Empty Spaces!

Through class instructions, Bodhih’s facilitators surface the step to research various course offerings available in the market and to look for empty spaces to fill.

A checklist is used in the class to determine the market demand –

Bodhih’s workshop on ‘create online courses’ focusses on the fact that before creating the course curriculum it is important to firm up the learning outcomes!
Through class exercises and facilitator presentation, participants are guided at this stage to create compelling and target-focussed learning outcomes. It is important that the students who sign up for online courses need to know how they would benefit from it and that assurance comes from tightly knit learning outcomes.

Bodhih’s workshop on ‘create online courses to sell’ helps the participants validate the course idea to be used for creating online course. Once that crucial milestone is passed, then it is time to work on making the course curriculum in detail – from modules to course plan.

From Index to chapters and within them the sections. The sections thereafter have to be broken down into smaller segments that would have the text (in paragraphs or bullets etc.)

What is Bodhih’s Edge in the workshop “create online courses”?

The important part of the program is to seek and experiment with various engaging types of learning delivery methods. Participants are instructed on how to use appropriate kinds of instructional aids that are to be created or sourced. These includes pictures, moving images, audio case studies, quizzes, self-assessments, and interactive screen modules. Finally, the entire course curriculum is brought together in a power point or a keynote presentation.

Bodhih’s program on “how to create an online course video” brings it all together as participants work through the final stages of filming, recording and editing the online course as part of production. It is time for the camera now.

Once the power point is ready, the screen recording can be done using Screen flow (for Mac) and Camtasia (for Windows). A user-friendly software, Camtasia allows course creators to quickly cut, edit, replace any green screens, fix sound as needed, add logos, and text and pop-ups to the videos. Files are saved as MP4 files and then uploaded to an online learning management system.
Bodhih’s workshop “create online courses” teaches participants on the nuances of an online course marketplace system, to host and add plug-ins plus the software specific to the website.

The last step in creating an online course is to set price points and figuring out how it plugs into a larger education business model. Bodhih’s workshop concludes with learners’ guidance on how to launch the online course by deciding the marketing of the online course through various content marketing strategies.