Online Course vs. eBook
If you have something to teach the world and you have a website on which you can showcase it, then an online course may be worth doing. It can help to promote yourself and your expertise. It can also make you money, and can also help to build a base of loyal users.
The two main ways to teach online are through online courses and eBooks. Depending on what you’re trying to teach and how you’re trying to communicate it, one type of product may be better for you to create than the other.
Here are some of the things you should take into consideration when making that decision.
How much are you trying to teach?
If everything you’re trying to teach could fit in a small book, then the most appropriate form would probably be an eBook. This allows you to break down what you’re teaching into several sections without making it into a huge product that takes hours to get through.
However, if you think your content would take up well over 50 pages, you should think about putting it into the format of an online course. An online course is made up of several modules. These modules are then split into topics and then split again into sub-topics if necessary.
How can the topics be explained?
Some topics just cannot be properly explained without more visual content, for example, highly technical content or food recipes. This could mean that you have to use videos in order to properly convey the message to your users and audience. While you can have links to videos in your eBook, an online course might work better.
If, on the other hand, words and a conversational tone would be the best way to explain it, an eBook may be perfectly suitable.
How large do you want the finished product to be?
You have to consider how large the file will be once you have finished it. While this will take into account how many pages you have, it will also look at videos, images, and other content that takes up a lot of space on computer memory.
While that may not matter to you, it does matter to people in countries where the internet is generally slow. Also, if you’re trying to target smartphone users, try to minimize how large the item is by making a small eBook.
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