Welcome to the Academy Of Mine Blog! Below you’ll find our most recent blog posts related to selling courses online and you’ll also find our most recent podcasts that set out to teach you how to optimize your eCourses.
eCourse Growth Strategies – View All
Is it better to buy or build your own eLearning Platform?
So you've decided that you need an eLearning platform. You've done your market research and you know your industry. You also know the course content you want to put in your platform and have a strategy planned for reaching the students that will take your eLearning...
Do you know what the ROI is of your eLearning platform?
Learning Management Systems (LMS) are an innovative technology that has changed the educational landscape forever, literally allowing an instructor located anywhere in the world to teach any topic to any student at any time. How exciting is that?! Using the internet...
Best LMS for Continuing and Professional Education
Continuing education has become increasingly more relevant in today’s professional world as jobs become more competitive and government licensure requirements remain stringent. Continuing education provides the necessary tools and training to learn how to become more...
Recent Podcasts – View All
Missed Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Lifelong Learning
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Your browser does not support the audio element. Are you selling courses online? If so, did you enter into the market with the assumption that you need to scout for students and teach them for a pre-determined amount of time before allowing them...
Starting An Online Coaching Business
If you’re going to start an online coaching company you’re going to need a platform to offer your services on. You’re also going to need some type of framework to help you grade, assess, manage and administer the coaching process.
How to Adapt Your eBook into an Online Course
So you’ve written an eBook. But have you asked yourself if the eBook format was the best format for your idea? If you’re a non-fiction writer, this podcast will argue that the online course (or eCourse) format is probably a much better format for many reasons. Not only does it provide readers and students a more interactive learning environment, but it also provides content creators exciting financially opportunities that they never known before.
Recent Polls – View All
Are You Using Badges as Micro-credentials For Your Online Courses?
In a recent blog post we talked about the advantages of using badges as micr0-credentials to verify online educational accomplishments. Badges don't cost anything to implement. You can simply use open source tools like the Mozilla Open Badge project and...
eCourse Sellers: How Many Terms Are You Actively Trying to Optimize Your Course Around?
We've been on a little bit of a keyword kick lately. We're obsessed with this topic and this is one area that we really focus on helping our eCourse selling members succeed. We provide training, strategy and tools that help eCourse sellers grow their educational...
eCourse Creators: How Many Hours / Month Do You Spend on Keyword Research Planning?
In a recent blog post we talked about ways to analyze long tail search volume data. This data is important because for this of us with limited time (i.e. all of us) because we need to make sure that when we begin implementing a content marketing strategy for our...
EdTech: Tools & Tutorials – View All
eLearning Platform Migration: What You Need To Know Beforehand
Does the mere thought of migrating from one eLearning platform to another fill you with dread and anxiety? Would you rather stay tied to your current platform because staying put is the lesser of two evils when considering moving to a new platform? Are you unable to...
SCORM vs. Tin Can (xAPI): which is right for your eLearning Platform?
Do you have questions about having a SCORM compliant learning management system (LMS)? Wondering about the difference between SCORM vs. Tin Can in online learning content standards and LMS training? If so, read on…
8 Things I learned after launching my first Online Course
I wrote my first ebook about 10 years ago. However, I wanted more interactive elements so I transformed my ebook into an online course, expanded my content, offered podcasts, video tutorials, a private members only area and much more. It was definitely a change for...
Instructional Design – View All
Anchoring the Lesson for Your Online Class
The finer aspects about creating a practical starting point before every lesson for your students. In the previous blog article, Anchoring the Lesson for Your Class – Part I, we explored the concept of having an orientation board for every online class, and how it can...
Using an Orientation Board For Your Online Classes
Create a practical starting point before every lesson for your students. If you have ever had experience with sailing, or know someone who has, you may have heard about or experienced first-hand the sense of freedom that comes with it. Being out on the open water with...
Online Student Assessment: Be Fair, Meaningful, Effective and Useful
The previous article discussed the importance of understanding that effective assessment-development is critical for both the online teacher’s curriculum design and the student’s eLearning experience. It also illustrated the inversely-proportionate relationship between the Learning Pyramid, Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy, and…
Education – View All
Top 12 Components of a Professional Training or Continuing Education eLearning Platform
With the advancement of technology taking over more and more aspects of our day-to-day lives, elearning enters a whole new set of expectations and compliance regulations when it falls under the umbrella of Continuing Education (CE). Though much elearning is utilized...
Anchoring the Lesson for Your Online Class
The finer aspects about creating a practical starting point before every lesson for your students. In the previous blog article, Anchoring the Lesson for Your Class – Part I, we explored the concept of having an orientation board for every online class, and how it can...
Teaching Online: Being Professional vs. Being Perfect: A Wrench In The Works Part III
How to continue keeping your cool when things do not go as planned. In the previous two blog articles A Wrench in the Works – Part I and A Wrench in the Works – Part II, there was an introduction and further elaboration, respectively, into the concept of professional...