How to Teach Online Without Selling Your Soul: Build Your Own e-Learning Business, Create Unique Content And Work From Anywhere [Kindle Edition]

André Klein (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

"The best book on How to build an online teaching business that I did not write." - Kirsten Winkler, education consultant

The most important thing about this book is that Andre unflinchingly spells out the simplicity of teaching online, and strips bare the misconceptions surrounding bells, whistles, toys and technology. After reading this, you will no longer feel overwhelmed about teaching online, and you’ll avoid the many pitfalls of teachers like myself who dived into the online world without Andre as a guide. – Sylvia Guinan, edupreneur

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How To Teach Online Without Selling Your Soul is an unflinching look at the educational landscape of both present, past and future.

Besides giving a detailed overview of education between over-reliance on technology and brick and mortar "knowledge factories", this book is filled with simple and practical instructions to get anyone started making a living by teaching online and sharing their knowledge, passion and experience.

Featured within this book are a variety of essays on topics such as "Going Freelance or Working For an Online School", "How To Attract Clients Without Paying for Advertising", "Creating Your Own Learning Materials" and much more.

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André Klein is the co-founder of the popular online learning school learnoutlive [dot] com where he regularly writes about online teaching and the many different ways in which technology is taking over our lives and how to use it without being used by it.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 590 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004YTFM6A
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,854 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

André Klein was born in Germany, has grown up and lived in many different places including Thailand, Sweden and Israel. He has produced two music albums, performed and organized literary readings, curated an experimental television program and currently runs an independent publishing and e-learning website at learnoutlive dot com.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Whole Landscape of Education is Changing!, June 4, 2011

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Angy - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Teach Online Without Selling Your Soul: Build Your Own e-Learning Business, Create Unique Content And Work From Anywhere (Kindle Edition)

The Ivory Towers that have been the foundations of education for centuries - universities around the world - have a gnawing little fear that they don't like to express. The schools that embrace online education are going to be better for it but the ones holding onto the way "it's always been done" are going to have a rude awakening in the next decade or so as online education grows in students, teachers, and numbers. Traditional learning and therefore traditional TEACHING are changing rapidly.

How to Teach Online Without Selling Your Soul is a response to the changes happening to education due to technology. It is a superb volume!

This is the book needed by those educators who see the writing on the wall and who might NOW want to expand their physical teaching jobs with online training. Other than language barriers, there really is no reason why you can't teach someone down the street AND someone in another country at the same time. As the book explains, sure human interaction can't be fully replaced but the advantages one gains from an online education are tremendous. The answers are here, from someone who has taught electronically and has written all the ins and outs about it. Highly recommended!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Truly Great Resource!, June 2, 2011

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MSharpe (Elizabeth, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Teach Online Without Selling Your Soul: Build Your Own e-Learning Business, Create Unique Content And Work From Anywhere (Kindle Edition)

I was merely interested in teaching online when I download this Kindle book. Now I'm excited and ready to get started on my new venture! The book itself is essentially a compilation of essays written by the author. Each covers a crucial aspect of this relatively unknown field. Highly recommended to anyone currently teaching online or curious about becoming an "edupreneur" in the future!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Online Learning - the Brave New Frontier in Education, August 13, 2011

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Ken McFarland - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Teach Online Without Selling Your Soul: Build Your Own e-Learning Business, Create Unique Content And Work From Anywhere (Kindle Edition)

As a practicing writer and author, I found this book to be an undiluted pleasure. And as a practicing editor and designer, I found this book to be...also an undiluted pleasure. Both verbally and visually, this is one of those books I find myself savoring on multiple levels: sensorily pleasing, thought-provoking, and volitionally motivating.

If André Klein writes a book of essays based on the phone book, I'll buy it in a heartbeat. If this guy ever decides to create the Great American Novel or current-events exposé, he will vault right over the Big Name authors to notoriety in the league of a Steinbeck or Hemingway. He's just that good. And I say that as one who has spent much of my career in publishing.

But now, what about the book at hand? Assembled here are several of the author's best essays posted to his education-focused blog ([...]). Not a step-by-step manual, this book is instead, says the author, aimed at developing "a thorough understanding of Online Learning and education in general, ditching the myths, deconstructing the hype and re-claiming a common-sense approach."

Those myths - that online learning is impersonal, complicated, or distracting - Klein addresses first, then follows with five types of online learning. Addressing the providers of such online education, the author moves into how to begin that service, how to leave a legacy, and how to avoid being a self-promoter. By now, you're not even halfway through.

Rather than summarize the second half (though do let me mention the immensely useful Appendix/Resource section at the end), I'll leave it to you to discover the eye-opening, mind-stimulating concepts and suggestions the author offers at every new page.

If you have an interest in education, and particularly in the amazing growth of online education, what's inside this book needs to get inside your head. And the best way I know for that to happen is to hit the download button here and soak it right up. I know it's a cliché, but you really ARE in for something wonderfully special!