What is it you want to teach in an online course? Now this should be an easy question. If it's a hard question for you, it may be because you haven't bought this whole thing through clearly, or you're just so good at so many things. Here's what I don't want you to do. As I mentioned in the previous lecture, don't just pick a topic because you think it's hot, because you think it's popular. pick a topic, because you really have a passion for I have a passion for public speaking, speaking to the media training, teaching.

And that's why I'm doing this course and 100 others all within this particular niche, but I'm doing it because it's organic out of my own practice in the real world. People ask me these questions, people hire me to train them one on one in small groups and large groups, and I'm asked to speak on these topics, isn't me just doing a Google search looking at how many hits are coming up each month for certain words. So I would recommend you really look at what Is your expertise What is it you're already teaching people to do? Whether it's formally or informally. Now, if you're a high school biology teacher and you teach biology all day, then there's nothing wrong with creating an online biology class. But you may want to do something completely different.

You may have a hobby of macro Bay and you want to teach people how to macro. That's fine too. But pick a topic that you have a passion for, where you have deep, deep expertise. It's not simply a matter of you read a couple of books and it seemed like a hot topic, because people can sense whether you really care about something or not whether you have a deep rooted passion for it. And if you're giving a lecture, I do recommend that you lecture now give homework give assignments, make it interactive, respond to your students, questions and comments. I do think you need to speak to students.

There's something about the human Voice seeing a human face, talk about something that puts a spotlight on big ideas. Sure, you can assign readings, assign your own books, assign other books. But there does need to be that moment where people can hear you and see you. And that's why so many online training foundations and companies require video lectures, because otherwise, it's just a book or it's just a multimedia presentation. People need to see you, the expert, talk about these issues, and demonstrate these issues. Otherwise, why call it a course it's just a PDF.

So that's what I want you to think about, brainstorm it, but I need you to come up with a title for your course. And I want you to really think about what are people going to get out of it? What skills are people going to get out of this? So I decided in advance for this course. I will want people to have the skills they need to start their own online course their own virtual course. And to know how to video record their lectures to get it up, how to position it.

And that's why I named this how to teach an online course you need something that focus so that's your homework right now. I want to know the title of your course and what your students are going to get out of it.