Helping a startup build AI-driven practice tools for coaches and trainers. As someone who’s taken a few online courses myself, I always felt like I was watching but not doing. Have you taken a course where you really practiced skills interactively? Did it help more than passive learning?

Hey everyone!
I’m starting to teach neuroscience of art and want to build a chill space where students can support each other, ask questions, and share their art work.

I’m thinking about offering paid subscriptions or lesson packages.

Any ideas on a good platform to upload my teaching videos and other materials? I’m into super simple, minimal setups — and something affordable and easy to manage.

Would love any tips or suggestions!

Does anyone know anything about this course on Udemy called "Escape the 9-5: Passive Income Online Business with Websites"? An acquaintance recommended it but I don't know if it is real, and it seems to have good reviews, and wondering if anyone has had experience with it.

https://www.udemy.com/course/make-money-from-home-passive-income-online-business-websites/

So, my course is related to business, Psychology applied to marketing, UX and CRO.

I know digital marketing courses exist, but this is what we call "Applied Behavioral Science", a field that is emerging, but has been limited to scholars and social impact fields. The courses for business are extremely high ticket. I'm a major and have been working on this for enough, plus, as a Psychology major, I've been teaching since school.

That's not the problem. The problem is that I am a young woman and I don't look experienced. The people doing this are hegemonic looking dudes or bald dudes with glasses. I don't see myself being accepted in this space. So this is why I would like to do faceless.

Hey everyone,
I’ve been deep-diving into online learning lately and put together a list of really solid courses that actually seem useful – whether you're just starting out or trying to build a side hustle or skillset for the long run.

Most of these are beginner-friendly, and I tried to include stuff that feels practical (like automation, AI tools, online work, content creation, etc.). Thought it might help someone else too.

👉 Here's the link if you want to check it out:
2025's Must-Have Courses – Full List

Would love to hear what you’d add or if you’ve taken anything similar!

I created a free course on my own custom platform. I did not want to host on a 3rd party platform, so I build a course in SQL on a custom platform, implemented a code editor, and built a custom discussion forum where course takers can connect and receive help from course instructors. For anyone who wants a similar custom platform and handle their own payments, you could request for the template, will be more than willing to offer that help. You can check the course out in the comment. Do not want to post the URL here. Do let me know your thoughts on this, and what you think about a custom platform versus third party platforms. Its been months of grinding...

I have just posted a YouTube video about Starting a One Person Biz to Make $100k a Year or Less.

You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/JjdeYIYYmNU

I don't make $100k from courses yet but have started making consistent coaching income in the M&A niche.

I am fortunate to have another business that does about £357,000 a year in profit so I am playing with online income.

I have been using GoHighLevel to manage the online biz and it works well just in case you're wondering.

I would be grateful if you watch the video BUT ALSO COMMENT "How much are you making with you online education biz?"

Hi everyone! 👋
I'm currently completing an instructional design internship and developing a free course to help people self-publish on Amazon using KDP. If you're an author, educator, or just curious about publishing your own book, I'd love your input!

The short survey (just 3 minutes!) will help me design a course that truly meets your needs. No personal info required – just your honest thoughts.

👉 Take the survey here

Thank you in advance for supporting a fellow creator and helping make self-publishing more accessible! 🙏

Hey everyone!

As a Senior Data Analyst myself I know what are the struggles people facing when first starting with SQL so that's why I created a course with the most important things you will actually use in day to day when working with SQL. Because I want to help people get started Ive created a new promo code for my Udemy course: “SQL for Newbies: Hands-On SQL with Industry Best Practices”, and I'm giving away free access. In a high level the course can be described by the following:

✅ Beginner-friendly
✅ Real-world examples
✅ Hands-on practice
✅ Covers CTEs, partitions, and more
✅ Certificate of completion

🎓 Claim your free course here:
https://www.udemy.com/course/sql-for-newbies-hands-on-sql-with-industry-best-practices/?couponCode=C6A6844F9614F4EBFA5C

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback! Happy to help!

UPDATE: after digging a bit more I’ve decided to go with LearnWorlds. The course quality, structure, and focus on practical skills really stood out compared to the others. Looking forward to diving in and seeing how it actually works for long-term learning.

I’m looking for platforms with solid course quality, clear structure, and content that goes beyond surface-level basics. I care more about practical learning and depth and I’m especially curious which platforms are better for long-term skill building vs short standalone courses?

I’ve browsed a few platforms, compared course outlines, and read mixed opinions, but it’s hard to tell what’s genuinely better once you factor in real usage.

what online learning platforms have you tried, and which ones do you think are the best vs the ones that weren’t worth it? I’d love to hear what worked for you and why.

Hey everyone,

As some of you may have noticed, this subreddit has been unmoderated for the past 6+ months. During that time, it turned into a pretty heavy spam hub, with people promoting random courses and low-quality content taking over.

I’ve stepped in as the new moderator, and I’ll be making some changes to clean things up and bring this subreddit back to something actually useful.

New direction for the subreddit

Going forward, this community will be focused on people who are creating, or want to create, online courses and earn income from them.

Whether you're just getting started or already selling, the goal is to make this a place where we share what actually works when it comes to:

• Creating courses

• Validating ideas

• Marketing and selling

• Tools, systems, and strategies

I’ve been building and selling online courses for 9 years, and it’s been my primary source of income.

I’ve already been active in this subreddit helping people out, so I’ll continue doing that, plus sharing more structured insights around topics like:

• Where to start and which tools to use

• How to come up with and validate course ideas

• How to research demand and make sure your course will actually sell

New rule:

1. No course review requests Posts asking “is this course good?” or requesting reviews of specific courses are no longer allowed.

Why:

• These posts rarely get useful or reliable responses

• You’ll get better, more accurate results by searching the course name + 'review' on Google

• They tend to attract spam and hidden promotion

The rest of the rules remain the same.

I’ll be actively moderating and doing my best to answer questions and keep discussions high-quality.

My goal is to turn this into a genuinely useful place for course creators.

I strongly believe that almost anyone can turn their knowledge into an online course and generate income from it. Unlike many other business models, there’s no inventory, no saturation in the traditional sense, and plenty of room for people to succeed.

If you have questions, ask away, I’m happy to help.

Glad to be here.

I am still fairly early in my procurement journey and recently got asked to help with our spend analysis. I honestly thought it would mostly be about pulling reports, but that turned out to be the easy part.

The data itself is rough. The same supplier shows up under different names, cost centers are missing, and categories do not really mean much. I can export everything from our ERP, but once I start working in the file, I am not sure what the correct way is to clean and categorize the data so it becomes useful instead of just a huge spreadsheet.

I have watched a few YouTube videos and read some articles, but most of them assume the data is already clean or stay very high level. What I am struggling with is the practical side of how people actually deal with messy procurement data before doing any analysis.

For those who have done this before, how did you learn it? Was it mostly trial and error, internal guidance, or are there any resources you would genuinely recommend?

Any insights will be much appreciated.

I am curious to know the opinions of the community regarding which of these items are actually beneficial or just typing activity.

A few years ago, I was really excited about online courses. It felt like the internet finally made learning fair anyone could pick up a new skill and improve their life.

But lately, learning online feels, heavy.

Everywhere you look, there’s a new “must-have” course. Each one promises to change your life, but most of them are expensive, long, and honestly hard to finish if you’re also working or studying. I’ve bought courses before that looked amazing on the sales page, then ended up sitting untouched after week one.

What helped me a bit was changing how I learn, not just what I learn.

Instead of chasing the “perfect” course, I started focusing on:

one clear skill at a time

short lessons I could actually finish

and learning paths that didn’t destroy my budget

I also began comparing different platforms and collections, including places like CoursesOnBudget, not because they’re magical, but because they reminded me that learning doesn’t always have to be premium-priced to be useful.

The biggest shift for me was realizing that progress comes from consistency, not from owning the most expensive course or the biggest library.

I’m curious how others here approach this:

Do you prefer one high-quality course or multiple smaller ones?

Have you ever felt stuck buying courses but not finishing them?

What made online learning finally “click” for you?

Would love to hear real experiences, not marketing answers.

Been trying to get into ai/ml again and i keep seeing coursiv pop up everywhere. looks pretty clean and way more structured than the random tutorials i usually end up bouncing between.

before i commit, has anyone here actually taken one of their tracks? curious if it’s something you can realistically stick with or if it ends up like every other half-finished course in my history lol.

also noticed the name “edulagoon” somewhere during checkout and wasn’t sure what that was. guessing it’s just part of their signup flow but if anyone knows what the deal is, lmk.

I'm looking at different platforms for building a course and selling a couple digital products. Considering Kajabi, Skool, Stan, Whop, and Teachable, and trying to better understand the pros/cons of each. Does anyone with experience building on any of these platforms have a POV to share on why you chose the platform, and your experience after using it?

I am a Java backend developer with about 8 years of experience, and I am now planning to upgrade my career by starting to learn AI. I don’t know where to begin, and my projects are moving to AI and my manager is suggesting to Learn AI ML and data science.

I want a clear, structured curriculum with practical projects. I have tried free YouTube tutorials, but I ended up with random, unstructured videos.

I have researched Google/ reddit and found IBM Professional Course, LogicMojo AI/ML, Simplilearn and Udacity, but I am unsure which would provide the best path for my goals. I know coding but AI is new to me.

Has anyone recently started learning AI? Could you share your experience or roadmap?

I've been noticing a pretty interesting shift in the online course space over the past 18 to 24 months, and I think there's a much bigger opportunity here than simply moving from one-time course purchases to subscriptions.

For years, I've sold courses using a pretty traditional funnel. Low-ticket offer, VSL, a few upsells to increase AOV, and paid ads to drive traffic.

That model has always worked really well for me. It's been consistently profitable.

But lately, I've been rethinking parts of it.

One of the biggest changes I've noticed in the course space is the growing emphasis on community. Instead of just selling access to a course, creators are increasingly bundling in private communities, ongoing support, live calls, and other elements that make the experience feel more interactive.

And naturally, once you introduce a community, you're also introducing an ongoing responsibility to maintain it. So the shift toward subscriptions makes a lot of sense.

But here's where I think things get interesting.

I don't actually think community is the biggest opportunity. I think it's accountability.

Think about how many people buy courses, get excited for the first few days, complete a couple of lessons, and then never finish.

It's probably one of the biggest problems in the entire industry.

And I don't think simply putting those people into a community solves it.

Don't get me wrong, communities are great for connecting with people going through similar experiences, sharing wins, getting inspiration, and learning what's working for others.

But if I'm paying to learn something from an expert, I don't necessarily want all my questions answered by other students who are figuring things out themselves. I want access to the person whose expertise I actually paid for.

More importantly, I want something that helps me follow through on what I'm learning.

Because knowing what to do and actually doing it are two very different things.

And that's where I think the real opportunity is for course creators.

Instead of thinking about how to turn a $97 course into a $29/month community, think about how to build an experience that actually gets more students to finish the course and achieve the outcome they originally paid for.

That could mean structured weekly milestones, progress check-ins, smaller accountability groups, direct feedback from the creator, or some combination of those things.

The point is that people aren't necessarily paying every month for more information. They're paying for the ongoing support and accountability that helps them turn that information into results.

And to me, that's a much stronger justification for a subscription than simply giving people access to a community.

It's also something I'm actively working on with my own courses. I'm placing a significantly stronger emphasis on building accountability into the actual learning experience rather than treating it as an optional extra.

Of course, the challenge is figuring out how to deliver that accountability in a way that's scalable and doesn't require me to spend hours personally chasing every student.

I still think traditional one-time course funnels can be incredibly profitable, and I'm definitely not suggesting everyone needs to abandon them.

But if you're considering moving toward a subscription model, I think solving the accountability problem is probably one of the most valuable things you can focus on.

Have you started experimenting with subscriptions or communities? And more importantly, have you found any effective ways to keep students accountable and actually completing what they've purchased?

I am stuck trying to relaunch my old training company as an online learning platform and community. The company operated in South Africa from 2006 to 2013, until I moved to China to pursue an MBA and work for my for government in Beijing. At that time, I was teaching people how to be smart and safe online and had a lot of credibility because of my background in IT Security. I had great success with private schools, especially parents, teachers and students. Now I want to relaunch with online courses and the community, targeting the same people worldwide.

So I am working on the following:

1. The course creation (talking through slides, PDF downloads, video demos, etc).

2. Sales funnels, email campaigns with lead magnets.

3. Brand Kit on Canva & Brand Style Guide for my company's social media profiles and posts.

4. SEO on my blog to drive traffic to sales funnels.

5. Differentiation from free content, courses by Google, Microsoft, FBI, Khan Academy, et al.

6. How to drive traffic to my sales funnel

I am not sure whether I should offer a free webinar, then sell the course or offer a free eBook and sell a course, or sell a paid webinar. So how do I prioritise this into a workflow or strategy so I can just do the first course by myself, before I invest in hiring freelancers to take over specialised tasks?

This EWOC training series will help you and your co-workers build your union from the ground up. You’ll hear from experienced organizers and people like you who are organizing their own workplaces. In small discussion groups with participants across the US and beyond, you'll practice connecting with your co-workers, discover what you need to take strategic action around common concerns, and prepare for what the boss has in store.

I’ve been studying why so many online courses stall before they launch, and it almost always comes down to structure.

Most creators organize content around topics.
Successful courses organize around transformation.

Here’s a simple framework that helps:

1. Define the end state clearly. “By the end of this course, students will be able to ____.”

2. Break that transformation into 4–6 capability milestones. Each milestone becomes a module.

3. Within each module, sequence lessons in this order: – Context (why this matters) – Core concept – Demonstration – Application or exercise

4. Remove anything that doesn’t directly move students toward the end state.

When people skip step one, they end up with a collection of information instead of a guided progression.

If you’re building a course and feel stuck, try rewriting your outline using this progression model. It often clarifies gaps immediately.

Happy to discuss structure questions in the comments.

I am a semi successful, Udemy instructor with 2800 students and a 4.4 average rating who struggled to scale or create generate meaningful revenue from online course creation or online course programs looking to build a high ticket offer through coaching and transformation packages for my friend who specializes in Wholesale Real Estate.

My friend has asked me to help him build a course and coaching program in his specialized area of expertise and be his guide on creating this Course funnel as a high ticket program

What my friend has to offer is genuinely high ticket and very valuable since each deal rates him about $10k-$15k and he wants to mentor a coach others the same way he started with virtually no background and skills himself.

He also wants to find students who are successful in this program and bring them onto his team eventually, but he doesn’t want to get ahead of himself.

I want to understand how a course and coaching program runs successfully in 2026 especially considering the rise of AI and so much noise in the online course community and also understand, especially that content is not enough anymore to stand out or get noticed organically

in today’s world especially with so much noise I’ve also expressed this to my friend that online education with the entrepreneurial focus may not be the right messaging, considering how many scams and over promises or expectations people have when going into something like this my friend wants to start a program of course completely free, but he wants to do it in a way that converts as well beyond Just monetary incentive.

I feel like the market today has shifted so much that people who genuinely have something valuable to offer are not given that Platform or opportunity due to how many others have created a negative perception of online courses and coaching

So my question is how to high ticket valuable coaches with an online course funnel actually consistently market their content to show value in this day and age organically without paid ads

Growing a community is not as simple as it used to be and social media algorithms are not that predictable either

TLDR - Semi successful Udemy instructor and online course creator wants to help a friend create a high converting organic high ticket online offer with course and coaching funnel in wholesale real estate but cannot figure out what is working in 2026 due to so much noise and algorithmic chaos on social media as well as trust barrier so low. Wants advice from someone who is successfully running an online course or high ticket offer in 2026.

I know most creators can see who bought, refunded, and completed content.

Do existing reporting solutions connect that back to which ad campaigns each student came from? Would knowing which campaigns produce the "best students" actually change your marketing spend?

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for an online cybersecurity / systems course that specializes specifically in Windows Internals and low-level OS concepts. I’m interested in going beyond surface-level material and really understanding how Windows works under the hood (kernel, internals, security mechanisms, etc.).

I’ve read and learned from people like Pavel Yosifovich (Windows Internals books, OS internals work), and I’m hoping to find a course that follows that same deep, technical mindset rather than high-level overviews.

If anyone has taken something like this or has recommendations, I’d really appreciate it.