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

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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!

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!

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!

This book wouldn't even be worth reading if it were free! Actually, you'll quite probably learn much more reading free material than you'll ever learn from reading this book. It has very little to say about how to teach online and just rambles on (with quite a few typing errors) about how online teaching will prevail. If you're looking to learn something about building your own e-learning business, then read something else.

This book is very well organized. I've had an interest in starting an e-learning business after coming across one online that I used myself, but I had no idea how to get to that point. The author has really put together a fantastic resource here. This book offers a complete step-by-step system that has been carefully broken down into bite-sized chunks so that even I can pull this off. I now have a clear vision of what I need to do to make this happen. Highly recommended!