IOWA CITY In a matter of weeks last March, Riley Eynon-Lynch saw use of his companys product increase by 1,000 percent.

We have an amazing technical team that could scale our infrastructure really fast, and then amazing sales and marketing teams running 10 trainings a day, said Eynon-Lynch, the CEO and one of the four co-founders of Pear Deck, an education technology company in Iowa City.

One of Pear Decks professional development events had 40,000 teachers watching. Daily training sessions had 1,000 teachers as viewers.

Its part of the Iowa City-based education-technology industrys accelerated growth since the start of coronavirus.

It became a more important part of education for a lot of teachers and schools, Eynon-Lynch said.

A 2019 report commissioned by the Iowa Economic Development Authority estimated the size of the global ed-tech market to be $57 billion. Now, its expected to be $1 trillion in the next eight years.

Its blown up because of the online learning thats occurring, said Kate Moreland, the president of Iowa City Area Development Group.

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Were going to see a lot of products as a result of this period. ... We think its an ideal time to help get our share of that market and kind of plant our flag in Iowa around it.

The best case scenario in the next five to 10 years, Moreland told The Gazette, would be for the Iowa City area to be recognized nationally and internationally as a place where learning is being advanced.

Adam Keune, co-founder of Coralville-based Higher Learning Technologies, anticipates ed-tech also filling a void for adult education as the Iowa workforces needs change.

Theres going to be a lot of people that are going to need to be retrained in a lot of industries, Keune said.

Its just the reality we live in.

The Iowa City area already has myriad educational-technology companies. Testing giant ACT, which was founded in 1959 in Iowa City, is the longest-tenured company in the area.

Leepfrog Technologies, which provides course catalog services and other software for hundreds of universities, started in 1994.

While Pearson and McGraw-Hill are not headquartered in Iowa City, they also each have a significant footprint in the Iowa City area.

The 2019 IEDA report listed the presence of ACT and other existing ed-tech companies as a benefit as the state builds its own education-technology footprint.

Eynon-Lynch sees having other education technologies in the area as a workforce benefit as well.

There are employees around that already know the space, and even if theyre looking for a switch from their current employment, they can stay in Iowa City, he said.

The University of Iowa has helped the region attract education technology companies. Adam Keune, the co-founder of Higher Learning Technologies, said working with nearby schools both at the university and K-12 levels has given HLT a sandbox for new products.

A great example is when we started with our nursing product, Keune recalled in a virtual panel hosted by ICAD Thursday. All of our products are free to University of Iowa students.

That way, he can hear feedback from both students and faculty.

Debi Durham, the director of IEDA and the Iowa Finance Authority, said she has been talking to the state Department of Education about embracing this opportunity more.

We need more cooperation from our education department, Durham told The Gazette last month.

We need to be able to work with them to solve problems proactively, but more importantly, to test some of these things. ... They need to be a partner on this, and they need to understand that all eyes could be on Iowa for this sector.

Iowa is not alone in trying to become a center for ed-tech.

The IEDA report mentions Chicago, Denver, Pittsburgh and Madison, Wis., as other places eyeing this industry.

Durham said ed-tech first caught her attention in a 2017 conversation with the previous president of ICAD and the previous chief executive officer of ACT.

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The Iowa EdTech Collaborative, a partnership between ICAD, IEDA, the New Bohemian Collaborative and other organizations, has worked to fund more ed-tech start-ups in Iowa.

Eynon-Lynch credited support from ICAD and other groups for making the Iowa City area a suitable home for Pear Deck when it started 2014.

We didnt move here for those reasons, but those were the things that made us feel like this is a good place to start a company, he recalled.

Pear Deck merged with Los Angeles-based GoGuardian in November, but Eynon-Lynch said the company plans to keep all Pear Deck operations in Iowa City.

While the switch to remote learning forced many schools to more fully embrace education technology, Eynon-Lynch is confident schools will continue using Pear Decks platform even when schools are fully reopened.

Pear Deck really helps teachers make sure theyre reaching every student, every day, Eynon-Lynch said.

We think thats going to be a value that persists, even when COVID is over.

Hes already been seeing it with schools that have resumed in-person instruction.

Their usage of Pear Deck increased at the beginning of the outbreak but didnt decrease when they went back to school, Eynon-Lynch said.

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Students in the Patton College of Education have had to overcome unforeseen challenges in completing their student teaching due to COVID-19.

Education majors are normally placed in a southeastern Ohio school district for a 16-week professional internship. However, schools have been more cautious about letting interns into their facilities in order to keep students and staff safe.

Kathleen Haskell, coordinator of professional internships in teaching, said she has experienced adjustments in placing students in student teaching positions. Haskell said she places around 200 candidates a year.

Haskell said that local districts that have taken multiple Ohio University student teachers in the past have chosen to not take any this year. Students living out of state due to COVID-19 had to complete an out-of-area petition to be able to do their student teaching elsewhere, Haskell said.

Since the pandemic, we have approved probably 10 out-of-area internships that, prior to the pandemic, we would not have because we just literally could not find them a place, Haskell said.

Haskell said some school districts that have enough vaccinations for staff will offer them to prospective student teachers, a hopeful sign for the gradual return of in-person internships.

The setbacks from the pandemic, though, have not stopped student teachers from making the best of their virtual internships.

Allie Davis, a junior studying early childhood education, is currently completing a virtual internship at The Plains Elementary School.

Despite teaching virtually, Davis is able to build relationships with her third grade students through activities like morning meetings, or through math and reading lessons in smaller breakout rooms. Davis said that while she wishes these relationships could be deeper, she still enjoys bonding with the students.

They still tell me about their lives everyday and theyre very open, even on the computer, Davis said.

In this virtual classroom, Davis faced obstacles such as getting students to pay attention when they are distracted and showing them how to use reaction commands on their computers. She said she hopes to return to a traditional classroom setting for better interaction, but mostly for the students sake.

I think that the students are going to be getting a better education in person than they would if they were sitting at home on a computer, Davis said. Thats why I really want them to go back. Its for them, not for me, because Ill get over it, but they really need to go to school.

Mya Contillo, a teacher who graduated from OU in December 2020 with a major in integrated language arts, completed a virtual internship before landing her current job teaching virtually at Belpre Elementary School.

Contillo started her professional internship teaching in person in spring 2020, but after the pandemic hit, she continued teaching online.

Learning how to teach online was a learning curve for Contillo, who said she had difficulties in creating online curriculums, teaching at a slower pace and forming relationships with students.

And I was also just disappointed that I didnt get to go into the classroom, of course she said. You learn so much just being in the field.

Ultimately, Contillo said she finds gratification in what she is able to do for her students during the pandemic.

You know, as crazy and difficult as its been for not only teachers, you have to realize, like, its 10 times harder for the students to just adapt to this learning environment, she said. I think that, as a teacher, its just made me really grateful that I do what I do, because I feel like Im bringing a sense of normalcy to the students everyday lives.

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Some schools is Los Angeles County could resume on-campus learning as early as this week with the county poised to meet a state threshold for reopening, officials said Monday evening.

On Tuesday, public health officials expect the county to reach the state threshold for reopening schools, an adjusted case rate of 25 per 100,000.

This encouraging news means that dozens of elementary schools will be permitted to reopen for in-class instruction for students grades TK-6 as early as this week, the health department wrote in a statement.

Schools will still have to submit plans outlining their safety protocols to county and state health officials to get permission to reopen.

Further information is expected to be released by public health director Barbara Ferrer in a Tuesday news briefing that will be livestreamed on KTLA.com.

Earlier Monday morning, a caravan of parents and their children descended on downtown L.A. for a demonstration demanding the immediate reopening of schools.

I want my kid to get an education, parent Susanne Jacobson told KTLA. Hes in eighth grade. Hes not ready for high school next year. He hasnt had an education in a year. Distance learning is not working.

A group called Students First Coalition of Los Angeles organized the car rally outside the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration building, where the L.A. County Board of Supervisors has its office. Participants honked and held posters with messages including, Our kids deserve better. Another poster read, Let me go back to school!

Some protesters emphasized the prolonged closures toll on childrens mental health.

Its actually not OK, kids could get mental breakdowns, I hear some kids get depression from it, said Brody Moos, a fourth-grader.

Remy Moos, whos in third-grade, complained of the discomfort of online school.

My eyes are on the screen too much, and it kind of hurts my brain, the student said.

Coalition leaders spoke to reporters during the rally outside the building.

We represent hundreds, if not thousands of schools here in Los Angeles County who have prepared to reopen our schools safely. And we want the opportunity to open our schools now, said Tom Konjoyan, whos head of the Village Christian School in Sun Valley and founded the coalition.

Earlier this month, the group penned an open letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom saying the states phased reopening framework cannot stand, and that all schools should with proper and appropriate mitigation strategies in place be permitted to open immediately.

According to the group, the missive as of Monday afternoon has been signed by more than 1,600 parents, 82 medical practitioners, 145 private school staffers, 42 private school administrators, 28 public school staffers and one public school administrator.

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner has also pushed for the state to make reopening schools a priority. On Monday morning, he announced the districts first COVID-19 vaccine site for eligible employees. Beutner again asserted that vaccinating all school workers is key.

A clearly articulated plan to provide vaccinations to school staff in the nations second largest school district, combined with the leadership Los Angeles Unified has already shown in preparing its campuses, can be a model for other school districts across the country, Beutner said.

A Calimesa man has been arrested in connection with a brush fire in Riverside County that killed two people and destroyed dozens of homes in 2019, authorities said.

Antonio Ornelas-Velazquez, 38, was arrested Saturday and charged with involuntary manslaughter and unlawfully causing a fire resulting in great bodily injury, according to a spokesperson with the Riverside County district attorneys office. After posting $75,000 bond, Ornelas-Velazquez was released Sunday, according to jail records.

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Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who fled the scene after two vehicles collided, sending one of them into a home in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of South Los Angeles Monday night.

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One of the first federally operated coronavirus vaccination site in the state and in the country opened Tuesday at California State University, Los Angeles.

The center, which will operate seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., will have the the capacity to inoculate about 6,000 people daily. Vaccinations are by appointment only and reservations can be made through the state's MyTurn system.

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We developed and modified our home study courses, which are traditionally in-person for the first class for firearm handling and North Dakota-specific content, said Brian Schaffer, the department's hunter education coordinator, explaining how the transition evolved. We were able to include that in our online learning. Students were able to complete the 10 to 13 hours of online instruction at home and then finish later. To meet the requirements and not compromise safety, the department offered over 100 in-person testing opportunities across the state, which included the written and practical exam.

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Most years, over 4,000 students attend and complete North Dakota hunter education training, and even in the pandemic year, more than 3,500 students successfully completed the required coursework, training and testing. It was a monumental task put together in a matter of weeks to meet the needs of North Dakota hunters.

In 2021, a combination of some of the traditional courses continues with the new available technology and instruction.

What hasnt changed is the window of opportunity.

The vast majority of our courses are offered from January through about the end of May, as most of our volunteers have some off time during the winter months to teach hunter education, Schaffer said. Also, our deer lottery is held in June. So, if you are required to have it this year, we recommend you try and find a course before the end of the school year and the deer application deadline.

Game and Fish and volunteer instructors continue to adjust while also looking to expand traditional courses and start offering some more courses year-round.

Understand while larger communities may have several classes to pick and choose possible dates and times to work within a schedule, many North Dakota towns may have one each year, so even if its not the best timing, it might be the only option until next year.

The most effective way to find out when the next course is in your area is to sign up for email and text alerts on the Game and Fish Departments website at gf.nd.gov.

Schaffer points out new volunteers can help provide these classes for your area.

For the last 40-plus years, our hunter education program has been led by our volunteer instructors across the state, he said. And as any organization can see in recent years, we're always looking for more volunteers and more people that are willing to share their knowledge and their passion for the resource and to pass that on to the next generation of hunters here in North Dakota.

Simply put, if you, your son, daughter, neighbor or grandchildren need hunter education and you're unsure of class availability, become a volunteer instructor and help pass along the hunting legacy and heritage to the next generation.

Leier is an outreach biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Reach him at dleier@nd.gov.

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According to a new report by Kaspersky, the educational sector continues to attract the attention of cybercriminals on the Internet, during the time of Covid-19.It has been mentioned that 270,171 users encountered various threats disguised as popular learning platforms during July to December 2020. This is said to be a 60% increase as compared to the first half of last year.

Also mentioned is that from January to June last year, the total number of users that encountered various threats in the form of popular online learning platforms/video conferencing applications was 168,550. That was a staggering 20,455% increase when compared to the same period for 2019.

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Kaspersky adds that this number has continued to grow from July to December. As of January 2021, the number of users encountering similar threats reached 270,17. As per the report, this was a 60% increase when compared to the first half of 2020.

Talking more about the online threats in the education sector, the report states that Zoom was the most popular software to lure users. This is understandable considering it is also one of the most used applications around the world. Zoom was followed by Moodle and Google Meet. While the number of users that encountered threats increased for all, the number stayed almost the same for Google Classroom.

Furthermore, around 98% of the threats encountered were not-a-virus, which is divided into riskware and adware. Users often faced threats disguised as popular video meeting apps and online course platforms through fake application installers.

However, the software security firm has given some tips on how to avoid this.

-Do not download any unofficial versions or modifications of these applications/platforms. Look for information about the developer and choose the official app stores.

-Use different, strong passwords for each of your accounts. You can also use password managers that also give you suggestions.

-Always make sure you are on the official company website before proceeding to download anything to your device. Fake websites may look just like the real thing, so you should always double-check the URL format and spelling of the company name before you download anything.

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One of the mantras to emerge successful through an online learning platform is to create a study space and staying committed to it. This must sound very simple and basic, but the implications are far more serious and meaningful if taken in the right sense and spirit.

The youth of today, especially college students, must have come to terms with the online method of learning by now since the institutions have been shut since March 2020 due to the pandemic. Even if they are slowly getting back to normal, it is an open secret that the online method of instruction and teaching is going to be a mainstay in the higher education scenario for the days to come.

This has literally transformed the teaching and learning environment from the institutional point of view. But has it really transformed the individuals is the million-dollar question.

It must be mentioned here that we are clearly able to see that many students are yet to get comfortable with the online method of education.

Though there may be many reasons for the same, one common factor that can be attributed is that they would have probably not been able to create adequate space for online learning. They might suffer from acceptance of the same and would have almost developed an aversion to it as well, which would be the reason for their abysmal performance.

It is important to create a mental note that online education is now the actual education and that it is no way inferior to the regular form of education, which you might have been so far used to. There would certainly be some issues, but when determined, everything is possible.

You have to frame your success within your own mind before you actually achieve it. This is an internal drive that could trigger your actions towards the same. Creating a space for online learning is something akin to it. The time that you spend on your online education must be justified professionally if you are to succeed in a professional career space.

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K-12 education has undergone a huge change in the recent years. Over the last few years students, teachers and parents are adopting digital technologies. In order to improve learning experience, digital learning formats have emerged. K-12 education is given to the students from kindergarten to 12th grade; adoption of online education is increasing due to rising awareness among students as well as parents and teachers regarding online education. Educational institutions are also adopting online solutions at a high rate in order to accelerate online learning experience of the students. The popularity of online education is on the rise as one-on-one learning is possible. As a result, there is an increasing adoption of online learning. Students are getting aware of the broad curriculum; the market players are offering and are aiding the students to explore the subjects that they are more interested in. Apart from this students have freedom to attend classes as per their own schedule, flexible curriculum helps students to attend classes as per the schedule decided by them and survey reports have shown that students are performing better academically.

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The education sector is changing rapidly due to adoption of digital learning platforms. Parents, instructors and schools are looking for ways to provide better education to the children. The proliferation of smartphones and internet has increased the adoption of online learning. Teachers and students are adopting online learning in order to improve individual learning experience. Individual attention from teachers towards students is the main factor which drives the growth of the Online Learning for K-12 Education Market.

In traditional education systems students in lower classes perform well as compared to higher class, as teachers are able to devote more time towards individual students in lower classes there performance increases thus need for one to one instructor led teaching is in higher demands in the education sector. Online learning with the help of instructor assists in having enough attention and focus of the instructor to individual student. Many educational institutions have adopted one to one instructor led online learning programs for instance in Obridge Academy students are evaluated and assignments and lessons to the students are provided based on the evaluation. There is a rising adoption of digital learning among students and increasing use of smartphones is boosting the growth of online learning for K-12 education market over the period. Online learning is one of the fastest growing trend in the education sector and there is an increasing adoption on Online K-12 by almost every country. There are increasing opportunities for online learning in blended learning before moving completely online schools are opting for blended learning as a step towards online learning.

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Due to Covid-19 schools are shut down and have hampered over 1.2 billion children in the world. Rise of e-learning platforms is aiding many of the students and schools during the pandemic and it is estimated that this shift in online learning will continue post pandemic and will impact the global education market. Before the pandemic there was significant adoption of online learning tools but the market will surge and show significant growth in the pandemic period. The adoption of online learning tools has increased a lot and the market players are offering tailored solutions and services to the end users. BYJUs online learning platform has provided free access to their services amidst the pandemic period. The company has seen a 200% increase in the adoption of its product by the students.

The Chinese government instructed their students to resume their studies with the help of online learning platforms. After the pandemic Tencent classrooms platform has seen a huge growth in its adoption and are aiding the students and teachers to resume their curriculum. A huge response is seen in the education sector for online learning and in China more than 81% of the K-12 students are attending online classes. Also there are many companies that has risen in order to take advantage of the growing online learning market. Media organizations are also extending their portfolio and are launching tools for online learning for k-12. Bitesize daily which is launched on 20 April is offering its services to the kids in UK and delivers its 14 weeks of curriculum based learning online. Using creative ideas like the celebrities teaching the content to students is booming and Bitesize daily has used this opportunity and celebrities like famous footballer Sergio Aguero are delivering online lessons to the kids.

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Adoption of online learning by senior high i.e. from grades 9 to 12 is very high due to ease of availability of digital solutions. Educational institutions are also taking initiatives in order to increase adoption of online learning. In the learning type asynchronous learning is favored by both students and instructors as it can be adopted through various platforms and does not have any constraint of time and place. The growth of online education is seen largely in the North America region followed by Europe. North America has the highest market share due to growing investments in online learning and massive shift of students from traditional learning to online learning. Asia Pacific is the most rapidly developing market for online learning for k-12; countries like China and India are rapidly adopting online learning solutions.

Some of the players operating in the online learning for K-12 education market include EF Education First Ltd, Enuma, Inc., McGraw-Hill Education, NextEducation India Pvt Ltd, Pearson, Vedantu, Whizz Education, Blackboard Inc., Chegg, Inc., Cisco, Instructure, Inc., iTutorGroup, Math 42, Knewton, Inc., Mathspace among others.

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With the provincewide implementation of Alert Level 5, all schools in Newfoundland and Labrador are now readjusting to virtual classrooms.

Meanwhile, the provincial government's efforts to provide Chromebooks to all students in grades 7-12 hit a snag that's beyond its control, the education minister, says.

Thus far, the province has 2,000 of the 30,000 Chromebooks ordered last July for students in grades 7-12, and expects to have a further 10,000 "within the next week or two," Tom Osborne said Monday.

More than 5,000 laptops were distributed to teachers earlier in the school year.

"As more shipments come in, we will continue to distribute them," Osborne said. "We anticipated delivery of Chromebooks last year. However, the reality is national and global demand is far outstripping availability of both devices and components."

Osborne said the order made last July was the third largest of any jurisdiction in the country, and the province currently has enough to meet the needs of every student in grades 7-12 who previously indicated they did not have a device to gain access to online learning.

Newfoundland and Labrador English School District (NLESD) CEO Tony Stack said the manufacturer Lenovo expects to provide "an additional couple of hundred" before the end of this month, 4,000 by mid-March and 7,000 by the end of March. In total, the province should have approximately 23,000 by the beginning of April. Stack said the remainder will come before the end of the school year. He cited a global shortage of microprocessors as the main factor delaying receipt of the full order of Chromebooks.

Osborne encouraged parents with connectivity or device issues to contact school administrators. He said those administrators will work with the parents and the district to find solutions.

Stack said he is aware of new requests coming from people not identified in the first two rounds of surveying that took place since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We're asking people only to identify if they absolutely need a device on the basis of need," Stack said.

The NLESD has emphasized the fact students can use any number of devices, including cellphones, tablets and laptops, and not just Chromebooks, to access Google Classroom and Google Meets.

On connectivity, Stack said the NLESD determined approximately three to five per cent of the provincial student population lacked a reliable internet connection at home as of last spring. In May, it distributed MiFi devices that function as a wireless hotspot, allowing those students to connect to the internet through cellular service.

As of Monday, all schools in the St. John's metro area were already learning online, with others across the province expected to start throughout the week.

Stack noted teachers are being encouraged to work from home under Alert Level 5, though some can choose to do so from the school if the home environment is not an option for handling online classes.

One change Stack brought up concerned students with complex needs who work with instructional resource teachers. In the event of classroom activities being moved online during the pandemic, the initial plan was to continue to allow those students into the school to learn with their teachers. He said that won't happen this week and may not happen next week, either, but parents will be contacted later this week to discuss virtual learning.

"We want to confirm that the health and safety measures, such as the nature of the masks and different protocols, are confirmed by (public health officials) before we bring any student into a building, or any teacher who has an interaction with a student in the building," Stack said.

"We want to make sure that the appropriate medical health advice is being followed. That needs to be confirmed, and that's going to take a few days. We understand, having worked around the clock with health, that they are intensely busy right now in dealing with the issue of the pandemic itself. Those questions need to be clarified in order for us to confirm that things are safe to proceed."

Stack said the NLESD has been in constant contact with the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association (NLTA), particularly since news broke in the province of the presence of a more contagious variant of COVID-19. The recent uptick in cases is largely tied to a cluster that spread in Mount Pearl Senior High.

"We've also tweaked some of our correspondence and procedures based on (NLTA) input," Stack said. "We've had good dialogue there."

The NLTA issued a news release Monday, voicing its approval for suspending in-school instruction. It said when schools reopen, enhanced protections need to be considered in light of the new variant of COVID-19. NLTA president Dean Ingram said teachers need to be prioritized in Phase 2 of the provincial vaccination plan.

Stack said the NLESD is prepared for online teaching to continue for as long as it's deemed necessary, but the preferable outcome remains to eventually get back into classrooms safely. That, he added, is entirely contingent on what happens with the pandemic and the advice the NLESD gets from public health officials.

Osborne alluded to the fact lessons were learned following the experience last spring with online teaching, and Stack later elaborated on that.

"Before the year started, we did a number of health and safety protocols with teachers, but also quite a bit of professional learning around virtual learning," he said. "Later in the fall, we put out an ask to teachers if you're still feeling you need something additional, please let us know. There were some 2,000 teachers that wanted a bit more training, so we organized release time for them and conducted that professional learning.

"Teachers have been really good at stepping up. A lot of online resources were made available that they accessed on their own. If there's still some out there that require additional learning and look, we're always learning then all they have to do is identify what those learning needs are, and we will address them. But we're a long ways ahead from where we were last spring. Leaps and bounds."

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The 10 Course Creators to Watch

New York, New York, Feb. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The age of information that we live in has seen business owners and entrepreneurs from all over the world capitalise on their knowledge in many ways - online courses in particular. Quick, simple and efficient, courses are an incredible way to receive fountains of knowledge on a chosen subject, without having to spend 4 years in a classroom at university. For those seeking to monetize their knowledge as a first timer, creating an online course can be daunting to say the least. According to Boost Media Agency, in order to create and launch a successful online course, you need the help of an expert. Each with their own unique style, here we present the 10 course creators and experts to watch in 2021.

Monica Kline (@identity.brand.by.monica.kline)

Monica Kline Founder of Identity Brand, a full service brand management agency, which launches brands and businesses on a solid foundation utilizing an Omni channel approach and technology to scale.

Monica, with 27-years of real-life, hands-on experience in Branding, Marketing, Sales, and Public Relations, which is why her experience lends itself to provide such valuable services. Having built her resume working for Fortune 500 companies, she has seen the growth of technology and how it can benefit smaller businesses today. One of Monicas mottos is that You must always be evolving to remain relevant, which is something that she not only applies personally, but to her business and carries this motto when guiding her one on one clients. With her growth mentality, knowledge and team of experts, Monica is able to grow businesses to be profitable in the first year.

In 2018, Monica strategically added Course Creator to her repertoire of services, as she knew she wanted to impact more people by guiding them to launch profitable businesses. The one way to do this is by on-line programming. In 2018 Monica launched a social media course for small business owners, followed by her signature Build Your Brand Course, which she teaches you the step by step approach she uses to build and scale brands.

Fast forward to 2021, Monica is in process of adding several more courses to what is now known as Identity Brand Business School, which is an affordable way for start up entrepreneurs to learn all of the tools necessary to build a profit based business.

Lidiya Kesarovska (@letsreachsuccess)

Lidiya Kesarovska is the founder of Lets Reach Success, a company that helps women start and grow a successful and authentic online business so they can leave their fears behind and provide epic value. Over the years, Lidiya has transitioned from a freelancer to a full-time blogger, to a course creator who offers valuable insight and mentoring. She has grown Lets Reach Success into an authoritative platform on anything related to business, financial independence, lifestyle design, and blogging.

Her signature course, Blog to Biz System, teaches high-vibe women the methodology to go from knowing nothing about blogging or having a hobby blog, to a sustainable blogging business with consistent income. Lidiya draws from her experience as a content creator for 7 years, so she has tested all the formats, platforms, and tools under the sun to discover what truly works. Now, she teaches that to her students so they can enjoy the personal and professional growth theyre looking for.

Lidiya is not only passionate about blogging and business, but shes also passionate about personal development and using spirituality and manifestation, something she has applied consistently to her life and work. She applies the principles of Human Design to her courses so her students can learn to align their true selves to their businesses and lead more fulfilling lives.

Jennifer Prashad-Hawaldar (@Jenniferprashadhawaldar)

Jennifer Prashad-Hawaldar is a trailblazer course creator expert whos passionate about breaking grounds and glass ceilings for diverse entrepreneurial women. Coming from a family of Indo-Caribbean immigrant parents, shes proud of her accomplishments and has taken the pursuit to help others reach their goals. She has created three successful online courses that teach people how to create their own profitable online course coaching business and have scaled her students to surpass the $6 million mark in only 3 years.

Jennifer founded The Course2Launch Academy, which provides entrepreneurs with the tools they need to reach their objectives and build their dream life. She offers a wide variety of courses, including the Accelerator Program, which is quite popular. Its a 12-week course that helps mompreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, edupreneurs, coaches, and people who are tired of their 9-to-5 jobs learn what it takes to profit from their knowledge, passion, expertise, or unique life-story through the creation of valuable online courses.

Through her unique proprietary C.O.U.R.S.E framework, proven strategies, and methodologies, shes able to empower people to create, launch, and scale profitable online courses so they can jumpstart their careers, take charge of their life and obtain the financial, time, and secure freedom they desire.

Her message focuses on helping others to uncover their difference to impact the difference. To see their journey with complimentary values to helping others and finally taking the initiative with their first step forward as an imperfect action toward success. She believes that there are ample opportunities available, its just a matter of taking action and making ones own luck.

Stef Lau (@steflauofficial)

Stef Lau is a highly accomplished online course creation coach from Hong Kong. She is passionate about helping clients to find their online space and profit from their knowledge/ expertise/ advice. She has the honor of being the 1st Asian Female Course Creation Coach Under 30, an Amazon best-selling author, and the creator of a 7-figure online course with Mindvalley, the worlds largest personal development company.

Stefs approach to coaching has allowed her to help many individuals reach their goals and make their visions come true. For people who have no idea where to start, her flagship Course Creation Champion program provides an analytical, mental and rational step-by-step process that anyone can follow to crack the code of launching a successful online course. The system she provides is simple yet comprehensive and effective.

With her motto Your Expertise Is The Biggest Gift That Deserves To Be Shared, her program is not only about achieving a business breakthrough, but also a personal breakthrough. She combines personal development and entrepreneurship to help people grow while building a business.

Stefs online course is very unique as both information and implementation are beautifully blended. Not only students get a thorough proven system with templates and swipe files, but they also benefit from a 3-day live bootcamp where they will be able to implement everything during the live event with Stef and receive precious feedback and critiques from her.

Jade Geary (@wanderlustcoursecreate)

Jade Geary is a wonderful Instructional Designer and proud CEO of Wanderlust Course Create. She has been building a career as an Instructional Designer for the last 5 years and her journey started during her higher education. Jade has always been passionate about her work and shes always been determined to become the best Instructional Designer she could be. For this reason, she enrolled in a Doctorate of Education program and she will defend her dissertation in March 2021.

If one thing is clear about Jade is that she values the power of education, which is why she wants to work with as many people as possible. This desire led her to launch Wanderlust Course Create back in May 2020. Through her company, she is focused on helping women entrepreneurs by providing valuable and effective courses that will truly help them make a difference in their lives.

Jade applies not only her knowledge of instructional design, but also what shes learned on her Doctorate to create high-quality courses, which apply learning theories that are backed by other experts in the field. She has dedicated her professional career to ensuring that people can have access to courses that are truly valuable and effective, so students can arm themselves with enough knowledge to make their vision come true.

Myrra Kate (@myrrakate)

Myrra Kate is a Kingdom-driven entrepreneur as well as an online course creator and strategist. She specializes in helping female coaches, experts, and service-based entrepreneurs package their skills, passion, and expertise into profitable online courses. Not only that, but she also empowers these women so they can reach their full potential, live out their true purpose and be truly happy with their careers.

Myrras online journey began as a travel, lifestyle, and fashion blogger, guided by her love of writing. She had always wanted to create an online course but kept pushing it back. It wasnt until 2019, when she went through a near-death experience, that she realized there was no time like the present to do the things one loves and is passionate about. Determined, she got to work and, one month later, launched her first ever online course.

Today, Myrra has had the pleasure of working with people all over the world to help them develop successful and effective online courses. By launching and creating their online courses, they can stop trading their time for money, free up more of their time, quit their unfulfilling 9-5 jobs and make a bigger income and impact. Through Course Compass, her signature group consulting program, she offers a simplified step-by-step course creation framework to make things a lot easier for entrepreneurs. There are no overcomplicated strategies; there are only actionable steps that bring people closer to their dreams.

Lauren Galloway (@leaveittolo_)

A former fashion buyer turned digital entrepreneur, Lauren Galloway (aka Lo), left her previous life working with global retail powerhouses to establish her own company, Leave it to Lo. There she works as the team lead and chief visionary wearing hats such as Course Creator, Online Business Manager, and Co-Coach.

Lauren started out in the online space in March of 2020 as a Virtual Assistant and was booked out within 3 months. Having worked with dozens of clients in the coaching industry, Lauren quickly realized there was a big area of opportunity in creating online courses and e-learning resources.

The vision of Leave it to Lo is to support clients by creating online courses that establish them as the authority in their niche, make their services accessible to a much larger audience, and ultimately create greater impact within their community.

Leave it to Lo is passionate about helping clients diversify their income so that they can achieve time freedom and reduce financial anxiety and stress. Laurens team achieves this by helping clients turn their passion, expertise and knowledge into profitable online courses.

The core belief at Leave it to Lo is that every coach, educator and creator has a course within them you just need an experienced team to make it a reality.

Brandy Dudas (@brandyrosedudas)

Brandy Dudas is the co-founder of The Chillionarie Club and a successful course coach who possesses the superpower of helping entrepreneurs simplify their projects and break them down into small, actionable steps that can be achieved. Brandy is a corporate-world escapee turned college professor, and today she uses her business background and her love of education to help entrepreneurs create, price, and launch online courses that will add value to the world.

Brandy has amassed 22,500 subscribers on YouTube and 1.8 million channel views thanks to her valuable educational content. Shes passionate about teaching others and making a positive impact on peoples lives by helping them reach their goals. Thats why she jumped at the opportunity to found her own business where she could reach more people looking to create and launch successful online courses.

Shes entirely focused on growing The Chillionaire Club and she has the experience and knowledge to provide high-quality course coaching services. Thanks to her 8 years of experience in higher education, shes able to provide frameworks to build lessons and show her clients how particular students will learn best. She doesnt only provide effective advice on marketing, launching, and pricing, but also on how to build effective courses that get results.

Rashta Ali (@rashta_ali)

Rashta Ali is a professional course coach who understands the power of human knowledge. Online courses are on the rise and theyre a huge part of the digital space, which is why Rashta provides the services people need to become a part of the digital movement and leave a legacy of knowledge while creating passive income and reaching a global audience.

Shes passionate about online education and shes helping lower the barrier of entry for people who have wisdom to share and want to make a difference in the world. Online courses provide opportunities for anyone to have a breakthrough and build a profitable business. Rashta Ali simply makes things simpler thanks to her wide array of products and services.

People who dont know where to start with the creation of an online course will find many valuable resources with Rashta and all the support they need. She helps people package their knowledge into a successful online course and theres no need for marketing, sales, or technology experience. With Rashtas course creation blueprint, clients only have to follow the steps to create a valuable online course and overcome the common obstacles that often arise with such a project.

Britney Thornton-Homco (@thecoursecreationcoach)

Britney Thornton-Homco is a U.S. military veteran turned female entrepreneur who founded the Love Your Launch Academy, where she offers marketing and business coaching programs for course creators who need support and strategy. She focuses on helping high-performing women defy traditional models of success so they can create fulfilled, happy lives they can be proud of. She mixes her military background into her teaching and training, providing systems that can be replicated by anyone.

Britney spent 9 years serving in the US Navy as a warfare officer and public affairs officer, so she understands very well what its like to work in a high-pressure, stressful environment. But thanks to her nurturing and adaptive leadership style, she found success in prioritizing people over objectives. In 2019 she launched her business and shes helped over 76 course creators plan, build, and launch profitable online courses using the skills she honed while in the military.

In the Love Your Launch Academy, Britney offers several options. Clients can either go through a comprehensive A-Z program or enroll in workshop classes about specific subjects. She allows clients to tailor their experience to get exactly the help they need, and she offers one-on-one sessions because she understands the value of human connection. At the Love Your Launch Academy, the client is always the priority.

Make sure to follow each of these amazing course creators and experts. Each of their Instagram's have been directly linked here. Finally, we would like to thank Boost Media Agency for taking the time to put this article together.

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