In today’s Episode of the Online Learning Podcast, Film Maker and Online Instructor, Paul Jenkins returns to the Online Learning Podcast to share his Time Management Strategies for Udemy Instructors. He applies all his film making experience to producing high quality courses which provide real benefits and value to his students and he explains many of the techniques and tricks he uses to produce these courses very fast! I nearly call this episode the Paul Jenkins guide to creating really great courses really quickly! Time Management Strategies seemed to have a better ring to it!
In this Week’s Episode: Film Maker Paul Jenkins
In this Episode we discuss:
- What Paul thinks of Udemy’s current competitive position
- Why Udemy can be compared to Amazon and why Udemy Courses can be compared to the Kindle
- What is a Minimum Viable Course?
- The importance of delivering insights that jump start students learning experience
- Why its important to retain the student perspective when creating courses
- What is an expert?
- Why a new instructor has to understand the market place
- How Paul uses the Amazon Kindle Best Seller list when making his Udemy Courses
- How Paul sells Udemy Courses off Udemy
- Pauls approach to Time Management Strategies when creating Udemy Courses
- Paul’s technique for rapidly outlining valuable courses
- How Paul uses mindmaps when creating his courses
- Why Paul thinks the Hero’s Journey can be adapted to course creation
- The importance of creating systems and processes for as part of his Time Management Strategies
- Why Paul takes an organic approach to his course creation and why he does not believe in publishing complete courses to start with
- Paul’s perspective on the Udemy search algorithm
- Why Paul believes in the KISS principle when making courses
- Paul’s recommendations for simple promotion strategies
These are just the highlights of the interview. This is one of my longest episodes but it was so full of great thinking and ideas I did not want to cut him short. I am sure this is going to be one of my most listened to episodes! Find out for yourself!
Getting in Touch
You can find out much more about Paul at his website at http://www.pauljenkinsfilms.com
You can find Paul’s Udemy profile by following this link – https://www.udemy.com/u/pauljenkins6/