Why Online Courses Are the New Fool’s Gold
Before you buy another online course, read this.
I know my opinion will be controversial but I just have to be honest.
Online courses have gotten out of hand.
An increasingly popular scheme are coaches teaching employees the way to quit their 9 to 5 jobs is to transfer their knowledge into a sort of powerpoint, set up a fancy spamming system with persuasive copy, and watch the cash roll in. And not only employees: Stay-at-home parents, the unemployed, and the very young are being swept up by the course craze too.
It is sad to see there is no online vetting system for courses. We need an independant website for unbias, anynomous reviews with proof of course receipt required to publish any review.
Also, there is no mandatory accreditation agency for online courses so anyone can publish an online course anytime about anything and sell it any and every way for any price they chose. It is the Wild West!
People with zero training in instructional design, teaching, nor marketing are selling VERY various levels of knowledge packaged into these “courses”.
The results are catastrophic. Bad courses are everywhere!
