Why on-line education is getting a bad name
Teaching is a skill. It isn’t just about being a subject expert or a good communicator.
With the proliferation of self appointed trainers on the Internet, people who think that cobbling together some expert (audio) interviews, or writing an ebook from stolen paragraphs off the net, you can start to see why eLearning is getting a bad name. Interesting maybe. Learning, not really.
But it doesn’t have to be that way, and it shouldn’t be that way.
Providing bad quality training is a sin. It could ruin someones chances for life, or at the least slow down their progress and enthusiasm for the topic.
So if you want to teach, why not make sure you at least have the basics covered?
Teaching is a complex subject. More than you can hope to pick up in a free A4 leaflet, or a 10 page eBook (sic).
Also if you are serious about delivering courses en-mass to “groups” of people, you need to consider multi discipline learning as well. BTW this isn’t something you can do properly with the free Moodle platform. So it’s either going to get very labour intensive (which is no bad thing for your students, even if not for you) or you need a proper back end to handle real pedagogical (learning) issues.
Yep strangely I can sell you one of those, because I had to develop it for my own KIP and Better Business University centres. But that is not the point…
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