What makes a great course great? This is how I start my Awesome Courses Bootcamps. I ask students to spend 5 minutes listing the characteristics of high quality courses. The exercise is...
November 30, 2020 | 8 min read | Read
At some point during course creation, odds are you're going to hit the wall. Almost every author does. It's a terrible feeling. You start questioning whether you'll be able to finish, and whether...
October 26, 2020 | 4 min read | Read
As a course creator, you're going to spend a lot of time looking for images. From your slides to blog posts to your sales pages, you'll need a variety of high quality images, and depending on what...
October 9, 2020 | 4 min read | Read
You've decided to create an online course, and are wondering how to get started. Specifically, how to get started recording video content. You might be asking, "what equipment do I need to start...
August 14, 2020 | 10 min read | Read
One of the most surprising parts of creating a course is how time consuming it is to create high quality multimedia. From working on thousands of courses over the last 10 years, I've learned a lot...
August 5, 2020 | 6 min read | Read
I highly recommend reading The New Yorker profile of David Malan and Harvard's CS50. The article contains a lot of wisdom for online course creators, from one of the true innovators in the field of...
July 24, 2020 | 6 min read | Read