Start Your Own eLearning or Training Business

Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

Ciree Linsenmann

• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781599185736
• eBook ISBN: 9781613083185
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Entrepreneurship
• Index: Business

Possibly credited to advancements in technology or learning behaviors, or a rise in focus on personal development, the education and training industry is steadily growing, creating a demand for eager entrepreneurs. Exploring varied opportunities aspiring business owners will be given business ideas, teaching and training methods, and an overview of essential tools. A range of industry examples will be given for:
•Accreditation, certifications, and credit
•Adding training onto an existing business as side income
•How to sell media/training tools
•How much to charge clients
•Start up costs
•Software types used
•The legal obligations around taxes, business registration, working from home, and content confidentiality
•Growth planning and writing a business planRelevant and fun call-outs, tip boxes, industry stats, an index, and a rich appendix and glossary will be provided. Appendix will offer resources in:
•Continued learning and rounded training for trainers
•Industry organizations and trade groups
•Books and eBooks
•Videos
•Software
•Websites
•Successful online trainers and online education institutions
•Consultants
•Certification organizationsTeaching methods and tools will cover:
•Videos
•eBooks
•Interactive software types
•College sponsored staff training for college instructors
•Hardware, camera, video, sound equipment
•Online group forums
•Online events
•Choosing the right presentation style and linking to appropriate social media sites
•Networking presentations

CHAPTER 1CHAPTER 1

Online Learning TodayOnline Learning Today

Students of life are thriving on the technological advancements that allow them to absorb information efficiently with a whole host of advantages over primarily attending physical, actual classrooms. Distance learning focuses on brain-to-brain transmission of information, allowing learners to save time and money. But where is the place for in-person learning after we embrace the light speed at which information is gleaned for better, more, and most current information? The fusion of face-to-face and distance learning is a fine art and there is a place for both. Each compliments the other and brings to the table qualities the other cannot for an end result that is better than each alone. Adapting the latest technology to the most recent understandings of the way people learn and creating courses that are an appropriate, balanced mix of simulation and tangible experience is what makes distance training today so exciting and limitless.

Distance Learning NeedsDistance Learning Needs

Who can benefit from online learning? The answer is any person with an internet connection and computer, wanting to enrich his or her life with a skill or bit of knowledge. Calculus, the newest club scene dance moves, making gluten-free bread, preparing for SATs, corporate sexual harassment procedures, earning an MBA, food safety, writing a screenplay, mortuary science, witchcraft, smart investing, and programming languages are just the beginning of an endless list.

You, as an eLearning professional, can also benefit enormously from the growing interest in self-improvement and the public’s desire to attain higher education degrees and training certifications. Not only will you learn from the research you’ll need to do to constantly improve your coursework, you’ll also learn from the wide array of context in which you’ll teach and, of course, from what each student brings to the table.

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EdTech Distilled

Educational technology, otherwise known as “EdTech,” is the rapidly developing field dedicated to improving and promoting education through the development of tools such as software, hardware, and teaching processes. It is the mate of distance learning. It combines the skills of high-art technical minds and educators who excel in disseminating knowledge to bring ever more improved ways for students to receive education. It layers face-to-face assistance from great minds in education with online mentorship and learning games programmed to adapt and customize as learners navigate through its systems.

EdTech is advancing and developing trends and tools in each of the main four markets of distance learning: children and young adult education, higher education, corporate training and professional development, and personal enrichment courses.

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More than ever, learning at the pace of the student—whether that student is striving for an advanced degree, corporate or technical skill, or personal enrichment—is very appealing as the pace of absorbing information quickens and our conditioning to convenience grows. Combining training methods and matching each to the venue that is most practical and sensible for it makes for higher quality learning than can be achieved only in person; saving time by watching a technical demonstration video from home rather than driving to see ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Online Learning Today
• Chapter 2: Staking Your Claim
• Chapter 3: Start Your Engines
• Chapter 4: Make It Official
• Chapter 5: A Wealth of Resources
• Chapter 6: Finance the Dream
• Chapter 7: Location, Location, Location
• Chapter 8: Your eLearning Website
• Chapter 9: Human Resources
• Chapter 10: Give Great Content
• Chapter 11: Marketing
• Chapter 12: Tales from the Trenches
• Appendix: eLearning and Training Resources
• Glossary
• Index