Hi Everyone, I am trying to figure out which one would be the best platform (e.g Udemy, Courseara, etc) to host my own course. And secondly is it wise to have one comprehensive course or make multiple small courses.
Some background about the course.
It’s a engineering course
Course will be around 8-10hr long videos.
Still not enough information about your students, the interactivity, the content.
Is the course 100% video?
So the course will be power point presentations, with me going over the content. Yes it will be 100% videos with some reference documents available in pdf format. My audience will be new and experienced electrical engineers.
Is there any automated assessments, or student to student interaction? Are you giving feedback on their work?
Any required tracking ?
Sounds like you’re looking for efficient delivery of mp4 and pdf files with no other tracking of completion or interactions ?
If it’s all video based, look at Kajabi or Thinkific. Teachable might work too. All of those platforms are designed for selling courses that are videos + resources.
Udemy wouldn’t be hosting your own course; it would be hosting on their platform so they take a cut of every sale. That’s not necessarily the wrong option, but it’s not the self-hosting you said you want.
Whether one big course or several smaller ones is better depends on your audience and their goals. Try sending a survey out to your email list or do other market research to figure out what people are looking for. You probably want to launch a smaller one first so you can get your system down and start making money while you work on expanding, but that might not be right for your audience.
Well, in a way to get started that’s a good idea. However, what I have seen across time is the fact that, you stand a better chance to create something long term and sustainable when you’re creating your own brand, rather than hosting courses on other platforms. It’s almost the same fight because the courses market too is saturated, there are a lot of people making courses in the platforms you’re talking about.
You can even start off teaser videos, and use youtube as a platform to pull in some qualified referrals.
Check out this - https://redoctype.com/item/udemy-clone It’s built for something like yours.
I feel the smicro suite sounds about right for that. It is pretty easy for both teacher and student. Especially since you are not looking for a complicated setup. The software may not be as rich as others but solid in its simplicity. smicro.de
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