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The Right Mindset
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What is the right mindset to have as you start thinking and designing your MicroCourse? The video with this lesson suggested it be a topic you have a passion for. Excitement is contagious. A passionate person can take a topic of little interest and keep someone engaged just because they are passionate about it. By the same token, a bland, monotone presentation can kill the most urgent and fascinating of topics.
A professor starting out once said that, without thinking, he tempered what he told the students because he imagined his mother sitting in the back of the room. He had learned many advanced concepts that would be difficult for students to understand or handle without considerable study. It helped him set the level and tone of his approach.
All the material on Kingswood Learn is free. It is offered as a service to the church. Clearly, Kingswood Learn is not the place for you to make a lot of money. It is a place of passion and service. It is a place for material you simply have to share with the church.
After saying that, there is an opportunity to share revenue related to expert evaluation. Each lesson should include a Practice opportunity and should culminate in a cumulative activity and submission at the end. For those who choose the option to have their course assessed, users of the platform pay $35, which is then divided between the course author and Kingswood. These particulars would be negotiated during the contracting phase of getting the material on the platform.
One way to get the right mindset is to have a clear picture of your target audience. In the video, we suggested you might even have a picture in front of you of the type of person you have in mind. What we are talking about here is the “persona” of the person you are trying to help. What are they like? What is going to excite them? What might disengage them? What would meet a felt need? What is a need they have that they don’t even realize but will after your course?