Hello guys,
I have been blogging about Java and Programming since 2010 (http //javarevisited.blogspot.com, and http://java67.com/) and I have a lot of content related to Java, SQL, UNIX, and Programming in general. I want to create online courses to provide a structured learning experience to my readers but struggle to get time. Is there any service that can help? Any other idea to leverage the content I already have?
Thx for your time.
Hey Javin, I am big follower of your blog and article though I am from .NET background. You can use educative to to create text based online courses.
Thank you, Vikram, glad to hear that. Educative is on my agenda, thx for the suggestion.
If most of your existing material is in text format, and you feel comfortable with Markdown, you can put together a course with Leanpub with relatively limited effort as opposed to course platforms largely based on video.
Here's an overview of the process starting from a book already published to Leanpub, but the idea is similar without a textbook.
This is awesome, as all of my content is in text format. Thx for this suggestion.
You're welcome. I use Leanpub for my book and plan to experiment with courses based on future books.
Hi Javin,
10 years of technical blogging - respect!
If you do decide to go for video, I am looking beta users for coursemaker from next month. I'd be willing to offer you a free account for 6 months in exchange for feedback. Feel free to email me if you'd like to know more (email in my bio).
I've done something similar and it worked quite well. I've blogged about Photoshop CEP Panels development – sort of plugins, so to speak – for many months: after reading Azat Mardan's book "ProgWriter" I decided to author a book on the subject. I've not simply re-arranged the content (easier, but a bit of a cheat IMHO), but followed the same topics list: I've created a bunch of demo code, and wrote everything from scratch – it was still kind-of easy because I was familiar with the subject (thanks to months of blogging). Leanpub was a no-brainer back then: I know they've slightly changed business model, but it's still the easiest path. Depending on the kind of audience you have, you can either decide to sell on Leanpub (they keep a %), or use Gumroad (my preferred choice). In my experience, if you add a second option it'd be better. Say, a book for whatever $$ and book+videos for whatever + 50%; 10 videos or 10 videos + 4 extra; etc. Usually you sell more of the bigger bundle.