Accreditation
Our research and review services will help you create rigorous, sellable courses. Another service, accreditation guidance, will set your course even further apart from similar courses, whether those courses are offered inside or outside institutions.
Accreditation sends a clear signal that your course delivers quality.
Your course can go further – do more in the international market by being accredited. This is the part that course designers often miss. Perhaps they are thinking about the old way of doing things; depending on bro marketing to explain the value of their course. Here’s where you win. Many of your competitors do not yet understand how impactful accreditation by a reputable organization can be on their course sales over time, in an international market.
With the right support, accreditation is a straightforward process. Accreditation is a process of organizing evidence that shows your course meets certain standards. Also, the evidence shows your course can deliver the right results for particular people.
Plan to achieve great things with your online course. Begin your course design with accreditation in mind. If your course already exists, we can help you modify it to get it accreditation-ready.
Accreditation processes assure quality three main ways:
- Structure. They assure you have the technological and administrative structures to deliver quality consistently.
- Content. They assure your content matches the experience you promise learners.
- Credentials. They assure you (and other course deliverers) possess the knowledge and skills, as signaled by your credentials, to deliver quality consistently.
Because the accrediting agency reviews your course(s) according to preset professional standards, it increases the chances your learners will write good reviews about your course. It also increases the chances your course will be matched with the right learners, who are more likely to write good reviews than learners who are out of place.
It’s not just about having a course. Udemy, Coursera, Teachable, Kajabi and many other Learning Management Systems (LMSs)are FULL of independent, online courses. Learners get stuck while choosing a course because they don’t have clear directions on how to judge one course against another. Yes. Customer reviews are helpful, if the reviewer’s and new customer’s needs are the same. Here’s where accreditation can be a difference-maker for YOUR new learners. Accreditation will distinguish your course from courses designed by other independent course designers in the global market. Also, it will position your course to compete with courses offered by traditional institutions.
If you are designing courses outside traditional learning environments, you have to legitimize your course offers to compete with (1) other independent course designers and (2)traditional educational institutions. The courses offered through traditional institutions are legitimized by the histories and reputations of these institutions, regardless of the quality of the courses they offer.
As an independent course designer whose course cannot depend on the reputation of an institution, you have to distinguish yourself by using some of the same methods traditional institutions use to signal quality. By setting yourself apart from other independent course designers, your course seems like a safer bet to a wide range of customers. These customers might even include traditional institutions, who might adopt your course, rather than compete with you.
Set your course apart with accreditation. Accreditation broadcasts to the world that you are offering a quality, online course.