Pandemic times in Mexico have accelerated, apart from the rise of e-commerce Y the use of payment methods beyond cash, a mass adoption of online education. If we are flexible and somewhat broad, we can even consider that a good part of YouTube has a didactic or educational element.
Let's go to some examples:
- Learn how to light your new boiler? That, friends, is a micro course.
- Learn how to properly brush your cat with that new brush from Amazon? Buddy, you are being educated online.
- Those makeup tutorials? Yuya is being your teacher.
This is why online education is said to be the fastest growing informal category within YouTube. Because we all have something to teach, from someone who makes small 25-minute documentaries about dark facts in the history of video games, to who interviews a communication and journalism expert on a video podcast.
Do you see the trend? That mystisism and barrier in terms of impart knowledge and the next step, if you already have the concern, is offer a summer course or some type of structured training for your audience. For that a Learning Management System like Kearnit, the Mexican cloud system that allows you to create your own online courses in a similar way to Udemy or Platzi.
If neither with specialized software (which by the way, has a free version) you cheer up, we share you 5 reasons to teach online courtesy of a much broader post from the excellent illustrator Raúl Gil:
1. Learn to teach
Gil puts a case that has happened to all of us. Perhaps we have an interest that today is not necessarily our area of expertise, but we have always had it the worm, so learn and document it then sharing that knowledge can be the perfect motivation.
Even, and this we already reasoned around here, it may be an investment of time that you can later monetize. An even cool reason to achieve this would be to pass knowledge only available in another language or through unconventional channels to a wider audience.
2. Giving a virtual course allows you to control your time and calendar
Developing your course, from curiosity or the desire to share an area in which you consider yourself competent, does not have to be a stressful or pressing situation. We are talking about a question Pleasure, so you can take your time to prepare your classes (Gil talks about intense routines in a short time or, consistency in lower doses) and also think well about your methodology and rhythm.
Just as there are students who prefer an hour a day for four weeks, others think more in days of 5 hours each week. Analyze what suits you!
Teaching the class online and producing your material for asynchronous consumption gives you that flexibility.
3. You can learn more about yourself, your profession, your art, your craft
Are you a great pastry chef? You have something to teach.
Do you write creatively and are you celebrated by your colleagues? Something you can share
Are you an expert in accounting? You can think of an innovative angle for your classes.
Once overcome, Gil says, the I have nothing to teach you can discover and develop your passions. Teaching journalism -and I will project myself- is not necessarily teaching writing but you can talk about financing, creative thinking, design for non-designers, time organization, mind maps, and -literally- a thousand knowledge niches that only you can to offer.
Teaching is getting to know yourself again.
4. Of course, get some extra money
Although it should not be 5. the main motivation, making a profit for your experience and time is very attractive when offering classes online in a dedicated system.
Being optimistic, a course -for example- that you develop on illustration is as useful today, as in two years, so if you continue to grow your audience on a blog or social networks, the course that you already have in your catalog can continue to generate money. .
Además de todo el autodescubrimiento, y lo mágico de documentarlo, puedes sacar algunos dólares o pesos 😉
5. Connect, network, make yourself known further
Gil gives an incredible example: Knowing a younger audience, which is naturally an almost obvious audience for an online course by someone with some experience, who may not have known about you through conventional methods.
This can bring you more recognition, better social media numbers, and open doors to a new type of customer.
Plus even new friends or trusted colleagues!
Known Kearnint, a Mexican LMS or Learning Management System and a free version to take your online courses to another level. (And yes, it is better than Moodle).
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