If you have a skill that you could teach or have been teaching, now might be the time to put it online and monetize this training. It’s a sector that is currently growing and expected to keep growing into 2021. Inhouse corporate training for product and process awareness, the training of long-term courses for individual development, and the process of learning a hobby are currently big business online.
What Training is in Demand Online?
The business of e-learning is one of the fastest-growing tech trends of the current data-dominated age. The global e-learning economy was worth 200 billion US dollars in 2019, and it is a sector expected to grow even further. Whether it’s fitness and weight loss, tech, business and entrepreneurship, arts and crafts, healthcare, or full-time higher education, learning these subjects and thus teaching them online is all the rage. Be it just as a hobby or a career-boosting, accredited course. They are all in high demand at the moment and making those that provide such training viable enterprises, regardless of the current economic climate.
As increasing numbers of people find that they have more time on their hands, they are turning to online learning to both create other opportunities and to learn new skills. Businesses and corporates are also using this online space for training, be it using consultants or presenting their own internal training.
It is arguably a sector that is saturating. If you aim to join the fray, be sure to differentiate with the quality of your training. If it’s internal business training or to capacitate staff on new processes you are looking to go online for; then for a clear product message, you will also need a quality platform and cogent content.
What Can You Train Online?
The way technology is developing, pretty much everything can be trained online. As long as you have some experience in the field, you can offer a series of training manuals and videos online. If, however, you want to monetize this training material or need it for a corporate or business reason, then you will need to specifically focus the expected learning on the requirements of the business or particular client group.
You can impart product training effectively through eLearning with Wahoo learning as a prime example of this. Improve and increase employee and client product knowledge by disseminating user manuals and guides for your products online. All these are now possibilities and, in fact, expected to some extent.
How to Get Your Training Online
If you have a skill and are able to design and present your training material, you need to have a host and some space in the cloud to share this skill informally with others. If you are a business owner and want to commence with product training or staff development, then the same goes. However, it is advised that for the corporate and paying market, it is best to have a professional finalize, edit, and check the content as well as then mirroring the software used to have a fully interactive training course online. You should also ensure that if the training is hosted offsite, that the service provider will be able to deal with the expected traffic.
You can pay a service provider to host and develop the material or simply provide them with your material and have them design, upload, and handle the assessments. This will depend on your level of expertise and whether the business has an internal HR and IT department that can work together.
Support, Maintenance, and Business Development
If you’ve gone with a professional setup, ensure that you plan for the analytics and reporting that they will be able to provide. This is one of the key reasons a skilled service provider should be used so that you can focus on the delivery of the training, the results for your business, and marketing the courses. Let the professionals deal with completing the training manuals, digitizing the training, adding the requisite levels of interaction, webinars, and group work. However, they must also be available for updates or provide a simple customer management system (CMS), allowing you to keep the material relevant and run reports as and when you need to.
So, if you are looking for a new source of income or are already in the development and learning field, it’s suggested that you take your offerings online. As the fastest growing tech trend and a growing source of income, whether you are in the HR and corporate training field or are an expert in a hobby craft, get involved in the future and take your training online. Just be sure to do your background research so that the professional partners that you partner with are building and not breaking your brand.
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