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Everything I know about how to create a transformational online course
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1/ The thread that started it all, a collection of my essays and checklists on the
Do you have an online course?
— Andrew Barry \U0001f981 (@Bazzaruto) October 18, 2020
I want to tell you a little about learning architecture.
My agency partners with content experts to help them create courses, and I've written extensively about it.
If you want to learn about educational design, here's a start \U0001f447
2/ There are two stages to building a successful online course business - launch and your first students
They require mastering different skill
As my friend @BillyBroas pointed out to me last week: online courses are moving upmarket.
— Andrew Barry \U0001f981 (@Bazzaruto) October 28, 2020
What does this mean if you want to create an online course these days?
Think of it in two stages
3/ Avoid the same mistakes I made over the last 15 years doing this
Some of the mistakes I've made creating online courses make me cringe
— Andrew Barry \U0001f981 (@Bazzaruto) November 23, 2020
This coming week I'm going to share a few lessons I've learned from mistakes like these
4/ Great online courses are not about the transfer of knowledge
They're about the transformation of students
\u2018Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.\u2019
— Andrew Barry \U0001f981 (@Bazzaruto) November 23, 2020
\u2013Socrates
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I'll begin with the ancient history ... and it goes way back. Because modern humans - and before that, the ancestors of humans - almost certainly originated in Ethiopia. 🇪🇹 (sub-thread):
The famous \u201cLucy\u201d, an early ancestor of modern humans (Australopithecus) that lived 3.2 million years ago, and was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, displayed in the national museum in Addis Ababa \U0001f1ea\U0001f1f9 pic.twitter.com/N3oWqk1SW2
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) November 9, 2018
The first likely historical reference to Ethiopia is ancient Egyptian records of trade expeditions to the "Land of Punt" in search of gold, ebony, ivory, incense, and wild animals, starting in c 2500 BC 🇪🇹
Ethiopians themselves believe that the Queen of Sheba, who visited Israel's King Solomon in the Bible (c 950 BC), came from Ethiopia (not Yemen, as others believe). Here she is meeting Solomon in a stain-glassed window in Addis Ababa's Holy Trinity Church. 🇪🇹
References to the Queen of Sheba are everywhere in Ethiopia. The national airline's frequent flier miles are even called "ShebaMiles". 🇪🇹