With the growth and development in science and technology, online education platforms are growing rapidly. To sell online courses effectively, building standard study material and providing students with quality learning resources are important. E-books should surely be include to create an effective online course. An ebook is an electronic version of a book that can be access for educational purposes via a network and a networking device. Students can use ebooks easily on computers, mobiles, laptops, tablets, etc. Let us discuss its benefits for teachers and students in online courses.
Benefits of ebooks
1. Cost-effective
Other than coursebooks and main study material, many times students have to buy reference guides for better understanding, exam preparation, and more. Is guides are not very cheap and when they need to be bought for all subjects, it costs much to students. However, this is not the case in online courses. Here, educators provide students with the necessary ebooks. These books can be easily download and access at any time. Students don’t have to pay for it additionally as it is including in online course study material.
2. Can be used as a promotional tool
In online course platforms, a cut-to-cut competition is going on. New courses have been launching every single day. To sell your online course effectively, promoting it well is important. The best way to promote is to let people have an experience of the educational products your course provides. You can distribute the ebooks digitally to your target audience. Or you can upload a few sample ebooks on your course website. The internet users when visiting your site will be able to have a look at these electronic books on course subjects. This will provide learners a sense of satisfaction and they will prefer joining your course.
3. Becomes an effective learning tool for students
An online course is said to be successful when it provides students with standard study material. More visual resources, better their academic understanding of the students. Online course creators can design e-books and make them an important component of the course study material. The images, maps, diagrams, written information, etc include in ebooks will boost students’ academic understanding. Students can use these books whenever they want at any time.
4. Improves class participation and interactions
The study material designed for online courses is also use by teachers in online live classes to give quality explanations of lessons to students. These ebooks can be use in class. By reading the content given in these books, students will get a proper understanding of the lessons. They tend to relate to the topics more. Also, when students use these ebooks at home, they come to the classes well prepared and revised. This improves their participation in the live classes. Students become more interactive and vocal in classroom discussions.
How to make effective ebooks for students
Keep it attractive and eye-catching
If the ebooks are lengthy black and white printed lessons to read, they will become quite boring and less engaging for students. To avoid this happening with your students, make sure to create attractive ebooks for students. Add relatable pictures, diagrams, catchy headings, fonts, templates, and more. This way visualization will help students to understand the concepts better and quicker.
- Provide easy access to students
Only designing an e-book is not enough. Providing easy access to it to students is equally important. You can create an online course website, and upload these electronic book links there. This will also help you to sell online courses from your own website effectively and efficiently. Other than uploading ebooks on course sites, you can prepare an email address list of all students and send it to them. Ask students to download these books and save them on their phones or computers. This will help students with quality self-studies and exam preparation.
- Keep it simple
If the language is not understandable, ebooks are of no use to students. So make sure you keep it simple. Don’t use complex vocabulary, phrases, and idioms. Write or include easy, short, and simple English sentences only. This will help students to understand well and memorize the content easily.
Conclusion
For making online courses understandable and a more meaningful learning experience, making ebooks is beneficial. By reading the above-mentioned information we can make out the benefits of ebooks in online courses. We also discussed a few tips that online educators can follow to create effective ebooks on academic subjects for students.
