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Why You Should Build an Online Community of Engaged Customers and How to Do it
It doesn’t matter what you are selling: building an online community should be one of your main goals as part of creating a successful brand and business. With marketing, you are always trying to figure out who is your customer avat...
9 minute read9 Proven Ways to Increase Student Engagement and Completion Rate in your Online Course
Studies show that the average completion rate in online learning is as low as 13%. This means that if 100 students enroll in your online course, only 13 of them are most likely to reach the end. So what? As long as they pay, I ha...
6 minute readWhy Quizzes are Ineffective for Students Engagement in Your Online Course
Quizzes are a poor way for a teacher to measure what a student has learned, especially when it comes to creative subjects. Constraints of scale and lack of innovation resulted in quizzes being a comfortable choice rather than the best ch...
3 minute readDo One Thing and Grow Your Online Course Business
Everyday, do one thing, even if it is small, to move you towards your goal. Discipline is extremely important, and this concept applies not only to students, but also to online course creators. Focus on improving one specific aspect ...
4 minute readWhy Content Will Always Be King and How You Can Get Started Building Your Own With an Online Course Software
In 2010, when we were a simple web and print design studio, we wrote an article about why content will always be king. Although the online landscape has changed significantly in the past decade, our ideas still hold true. Below is the or...
4 minute readApplying Gamification and Psychology Principles to Improve How We Learn
Game and social media companies have invested heavily in designers, psychologists, and research in order to implement positive feedback loops that keep their users coming back and spending increasing amounts of time on their platforms. T...
5 minute readHow COVID Jumpstarted the Businesses of Many Online Course Creators
Day after day for the past month, Heights Platform has seen record traffic numbers both from creators and students. As a result, some planned performance improvements became more immediately necessary to handle the increased traffic. ...
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