1. Focus on Quality Content - Understand the audience, existing courses, and the need or gap that you can fill. Think deeply about your course's objective, topics, and progression. Prepare a concise but focused substantive lesson plan outline that will guide your course creation. It's okay to revise it as you record lessons. 2. Create a Course Development System - Approach course creation as a platform rather than a reinvention of the wheel with each new course. If you've developed a course that worked, see how you can use aspects of that course to save time on a future courses. For example, if you use presentation slides or animations, consider creating a template that you can iterate for each new course. Play with styles and colors to customize it for each new course. 3. Speak Slowly and Clearly - As an expert on a subject, you will have lots to say. We usually speak faster than we realize. Take your time. Speak slowly and clearly. Students will have time to process what you're saying and understand it better. If they want to zip through your lesson, they'll can always view the lesson at 1.5x or 2x speed.
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