[Mika]

These days, it looks like selling courses is a great way to earn money online. There are a lot of sites, where you can sell courses. But I want to know if anyone has created a course and tried ti sell from his own website.

[Joseph83]

It will only be profitable if the site is popular ,and when the course author is a reputable person. Sites like Coursera despite being popular are offering free courses just to attract people

[sweerie_banana]

I always wanted to study TEFL. Let me head-on there now, thank you @Joseph83.

I am sorry Mika I don't know much but I intend to teach one day I will try and enroll and see the process.

[chikitta]

I have come across quite a number of sites that offer free courses for like a month then after that you pay a fee to continue which is great especially during this pandemic season. i have tried a few but what am looking for is not offered free i have to pay. I think it's a great way to make money online.

[Mika]

It will only be profitable if the site is popular ,and when the course author is a reputable person. Sites like Coursera despite being popular are offering free courses just to attract people

Yes, there are learning websites that are offering free courses, however, the free courses are just introductory offers. If you want to take a proper course, you need to enroll in a paid course. Just by offering a free course, they are already pulling huge traffic to their site.

[Lilia]

Yes it's the in thing now, but a lot of people are misusing this opportunity by churning out lots of trash courses that can easily be found on the internet. The best way to sell yours is create a landing page and run Facebook ads targeting the relevant audience

[Mika]

That's what I believe. I have checked courses on a lot of popular learning sites including udemy, many courses are just trash. They are just reusing what is already available for free.

[sethbala11]

In as much as I think selling of online courses a very good ways of making money you will have to take a lot of time and resources to.

[Mika]

You will first have to develop a course, you will need a create lot of videos, podcasts as well as reading materials. Thye work can be really tiring though

[sethbala11]

Do you want to create an online school you rest assured that you have to put in a lot of work on the content and also on promotion.

[arunima]

Most of the learning websites like Coursera and Khans Academy offer free courses to attract audiences to their sites. I have completed a few courses with them related to my profession. But the free courses are all introductory and you do not get any certification from them. To have in-depth knowledge and certification from them on completion of the course and writing exams, one needs to pay them and enroll for advanced courses. If the course content is really good, it is definitely going to be a profitable business.

[Mika]

If you are looking for free courses, you need to check Alison, it offers a lot of free courses (the courses are complete and not just an introduction to a course).

[Tyrim88]

Few years ago when i was an instructor in a technology organisation which majored in prorammng,engineering design andproject management certification and training.We developed courses nto varoius modules for their different packages and put them on cd formats,it was mainly an offline sales.But the keys were bought online foractivation.

[sethbala11]

Majority of the site that do online learning offer free courses and you can sure check them out.

[Mika]

Few years ago when i was an instructor in a technology organisation which majored in prorammng,engineering design andproject management certification and training.We developed courses nto varoius modules for their different packages and put them on cd formats,it was mainly an offline sales.But the keys were bought online foractivation.

When I was working for a software company, I was a part of a team for developing a course for a certain company. These days, I am thinking bout adding courses to my website as a way to generate revenue.