PODCAST · education
Badass Courses
by Joel Hooks
Spilling the secret sauce about researching, designing, producing, and delivering high-quality courses and making life-changing money in the process.
Episodes
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Raising The Bar For Online Learning with Greg Róg
Online learning has so much potential to be vastly better than traditional in-person education. But, why do most courses miss the mark? To Greg Róg it seems that most people are trying to create content instead of focusing on the actual action of teaching people. People make courses for…
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Facilitating Learning Over Bestowing Knowledge with Matt D. Smith (MDS)
Testing out your content in some way before a full release can really improve the quality of your final product. Matt D. Smith, better known around the internet as MDS, did a beta testing round before he released Shift Nudge. Learners still had to pay to access the beta, which resulted in a very...
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How UI Foundations Was Built to Teach Quality Design with Kyle Gill
Creating a course about design has its own unique challenges. Design is an art, but that doesn't mean it's not quantifiable. With some caveats of course, there are rules you can follow and techniques that you can use to produce designs that are going to look good. Kyle Gill aims to arm learners...
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Transitioning From Teachable to a Custom Platform with Tyler McGinnis
When you first start your business, the biggest initial hurdle is choosing where your content is going to be hosted. If you start building a custom platform from the beginning, it may be months before you ship a single course. And if you have a deadline and need to start making a profit this…
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Learning to Manage a Growing Business with Scott Tolinski
Running a course platform that not only contains your content, but also the courses of several other third-party creators is an entirely different job than that of the independent creator. Scott Tolinski, creator of Level Up tutorials has had to learn a lot of lessons as he grew his business and...
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Engaging Learners with a Chance to Struggle with Josh W. Comeau
Making your courses engaging is always the goal, but it's something that's easier said than done. But, Josh Comeau has several strategies that he uses to ensure that his content is as engaging to learners as possible. There's the element of active practice. A learner shouldn't be able to go…
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Researching to Teach and Testing Your Ideas with Chris Biscardi
Once you've got an idea for a course or some other kind of educational product, there are a number of steps you can take to make sure that it's a good idea and to refine the instructional design before you spend the time recording. Chris Biscardi uses multiple mediums to try out new ideas. A…
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Using Existing Course Platforms to Deliver More Content with Mark Shust
If your main interest is to actually get straight into producing content and start selling it, you probably don't want to jump into developing a custom platform. Mark Shust has seen many people get into building there own platforms and have all their time sucked into getting it running, when they...
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Starting a Training Service Before Producing Courses with Marissa Goldberg
If you are wanting to become and independent educator, you don't have to jump straight into trying to produce a recorded course. Marissa Goldberg's approach has been to start as a service based business and then use the skills and knowledge that you gain there to transition into producing…
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Creating a Successful Business with Fun Project-Based Courses with Wes Bos
Designing courses that are both entertaining and informative is no small feat. But, time and time again, Wes Bos delivers. There's no secret formula either. The method is simple. Wes takes a project first approach, thinking about the technology he wants to teach and everything a learner would…
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Balancing Platform Development and Content Creation with Jorge Vergara
As an independent educator you're going to end up wearing a lot of hats. Development, marketing, support, on top of the work that goes into actually producing the content. All of it is essential though if your goal is to actually reach people and help teach them something that's relevant to their...
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Engaging Learners with Practical Challenges with Angie Jones
If you've ever taken a course on the internet you may have come across an exercise or some kind example that just left you thinking okay but why? This lack of real-world context is a problem that a lot of courses suffer from. Creating examples that are engaging learners, isolates the skill being...
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Designing Courses Around Mental Models with Josh Kaufman
We can sort of categorize courses and other educational content into two different categories. The first is a targeted instrumental style, where the learner is taught procedures and technical skills. It's important to learn these skills in whatever subject you are learning but this type of course...
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Designing Courses Nonlinearly with Kyle Shevlin
Designing a course isn't linear. And it makes sense, since learning itself isn't a linear activity! We spend years building expertise and gaining knowledge, and concepts don't neatly build on each-other one after another. Our skills end up looking more like nodes on a graph with numerous edges...
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Creating an Excellent Learning Environment with Eman Zabi
Terrain was founded out of a frustration with the e-learning industry. There are a lot of courses out there with great marketing but lack good learning environments, expertise, and instructional design. Eman Zabi set out to change that with Terrain. The idea was to create a platform with high...
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Integrating Live-Content in to Your Course Design Process with Brennan Dunn
"You can't buy cameras and become a better photographer. You have to take pictures to become a better photographer." Brennan Dunn says this when referring to his tendency for purchasing the best tools before even starting a new hobby. Equipment is no substitute for real experience. Gathering real...
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Build a Thriving Business without Custom Software with Ben Tossel
Ben Tossel created Makerpad, which seeks to teach that you don't need to spend years learning to code or spend 100s of thousands of dollars on expensive engineers to start a business. A core part selling educational content online is that platform. Whether it's Youtube, a multi-million dollar…
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Preparing Learners for the Blank Canvas with Quincy Larson
Quincy Larson, founder of freeCodeCamp, was in his 30's after he quit his job as a school director. After learning how to automate some of the tedious tasks that staff had to deal with, he realized how many people's lives could be improved if they learned how to solve problems with technology. He...
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Effectively Using Learner Feedback with Marie Poulin
The founder of Notion Mastery, Marie Poulin, knew she had caught lightning in a bottle once she started to get messages from people telling her they would pay real money if she released a course teaching Notion. There were a number of challenges to work through before and after that point.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Spilling the secret sauce about researching, designing, producing, and delivering high-quality courses and making life-changing money in the process.
HOSTED BY
Joel Hooks
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Spilling the secret sauce about researching, designing, producing, and delivering high-quality courses and making life-changing money in the process.
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