If you attended Learning Live this week, I hope that you had a productive time and enjoyed it as much as I did.

Today I'd like to share my views on the never-ending scepticism that surrounds online learning. And please don't get me wrong, sceptics are good for our industry. Actually any industry. Especially when they're knowledgeable and help stir a debate.

Source: https://futuredecoded.microsoft.com/enterprise-nation/ How well do you know your customers?  In the age of big data and personalization, something that we at Filtered feel extremely passionately about, companies want to know as much about their customers as physically possible. One extra piece of data could be the difference between a customer making a purchase or looking elsewhere.

Change is in the air. There's enormous - maybe unprecedented - change in L&D right now. It stands to reason: cloud services on the ascendancy as technology including bandwidth improvements and 4G; SCORM-constrained LMSs on the descendence; a growing (now near total) consensus that learning must be embedded in work; an awareness of and desire for the vast, mesmerising technology we all experience and enjoy as consumers.

Last year saw the revamp of the UK school curriculum to, for the first time, include computer programming or "coding". The logic behind this was sound. The next generation of young minds will have a far greater use of this than spending their ICT lessons learning how to use Microsoft Word or Excel, and by starting early this discipline will become engrained in the psyche of tomorrow’s workforce.

Let’s say you have a website, you know your lessons are valuable, and you have a marketing plan that will bring English learners onto your site and social media channels. It all sounds great, but…. You won’t get paying learners/customers if you don’t gain the trust of your au... The post Six Ways to Build Trust with English Learners Online appeared first on Teaching ESL Online.

My thoughts on selling have changed dramatically over the past 2-3 years. At first, I held back. I didn’t feel comfortable selling what I offered. I guess this is because most people think about the worst type of used car salesmen when they see the word ‘sales’. Or Alec Baldwin in Glenn Garry Glenross (warning: strong language). […] The post Independent Teachers: Why You Need to Learn How to Sell appeared first on Teaching ESL Online.

In this video, I talk about how I am progressing with my goals for 2015. I will have a full review at the end of the year, but I have been strategizing a lot recently and thought the time was apt for a quick update. Below you can find the notes from the video. Build […] The post A Quick Review of 2015 (Thus Far) appeared first on Teaching ESL Online.

According to my writing app, I write between 12 - 15,000 words per week. This number includes words from articles, emails, social media posting, and other areas. I have introduced something new into my writing process that helps improve my articles and reduce the amount of mistakes I make. In the video below, I go […] The post My 3-Step Writing Progress: Blogging for Online Teachers appeared first on Teaching ESL Online.

When I started my teaching business, I had one goal in mind: I wanted to earn more than I was earning in Spain by teaching one-to-one lessons online. I soon reached this goal and, for a while, I was comfortable with my situation. I didn’t have any aspirations to expand on what I was doing. […] The post Six Ways to Earn an Income as an Online Teacher appeared first on Teaching ESL Online.