Overcoming The Fear Of Filming Your Online Course Videos
Creating Courses on Camera Presenting on camera is extremely different to presenting face to face. And along with that, comes the terrifying prospect that you are immortalizing yourself in the capturing of a video, that could be viewed by millions of people for the rest of time. Gulp. It’s not surprising that people…
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The Biggest Barriers To Organisational e-Learning
Why are so many businesses not yet benefiting from organisational e-learning? Even though e-Learning has been around for over 20 years, you’d be amazed at how little it is yet being used in organisations for employee training and development. E-Learning doesn’t always suit every learning and development situation, but in a world where employees…
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The Benefits of Hiring Guest Speakers vs Training Organisations For Your Employee Development
You don’t always need a training organisation. Reduce costs and maintain quality with professional speakers for your employee training – Sarah Cordiner Do you really need a registered training organisation to deliver your next employee development workshop? If your staff training absolutely requires an accredited outcome, then a RTO (Registered Training Organisation) – or a…
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11 Ways To Beat Self-Doubt & Imposter Syndrome When Creating Online Courses
Here is a simple fact: it is IMPOSSIBLE to know EVERYTHING about a topic. There is so much information, science, data, opinions, studies, theories, ideas, discussions and more out there that it is an impossibility to keep up with and retain all of that information in our human heads. As an educator and course creator,…
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Increase Your Student Retention by Contextualising Your Training
Most experienced teachers will be able to recall a feeling of losing the engagement of a learner at some point in their career. It’s not an easy circumstance to manage – circumstantially or emotionally. Adult learners often have a choice about taking your course, as well as a voice (and in today’s world a very…
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What I Learned About Being a Great Teacher…. (from murderers and thieves….)
What I learned about how to be a great teacher from murderers and thieves…. What makes a great teacher? There are countless ways to measure the success factors of a great teacher, and many of them are subjective or immeasurable in their nature. The fact is, there are many factors that must combine to…
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12 Success Tips That I’ll Definitely Be Taking into 2017
I’ll save the fluffy intro. Here are 12 things that have really helped me have an absolutely sensational 2016 in business, and that I will definitely be taking into next year – enjoy! Have a really clear plan A plan is not about writing a to-do list. It’s about defining exactly what every single…
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8 Ways To Engage the Right Brain Learner in Your Online Courses
8 Ways To Engage the Right Brain Learner in Your Online Courses The left side of our brain is the logical, analytical and strategic side of us; whereas the right side of our brain is the visual, creative and conceptual side of us. Most people fall more into one side than another the majority of…
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How To Engage Heart-Centered Learners in Your Online Courses
When we are creating courses of any kind, it is critical that we consider the many different learning preferences and learner characteristics that our course will need to engage. In other articles I have talked about how to engage global vs analytical learners; left brain vs right brain learners, kinaesthetic, visual and audio preferences –…
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