Advice on Delivering Evening/Weekend Course

KyleJJE

Hi,

Something that came to mind was to start delivering a part time evening / weekend course for 6-12 week period. Content would be down the lines of basic intro to engineering / project management / finance

Anyone have any advice or experience of starting something like this, plus any insight into costs involved, potential of course accreditation or any other tips etc.

Thanks

bduffy

KyleJJE wrote: »

Hi,

Something that came to mind was to start delivering a part time evening / weekend course for 6-12 week period. Content would be down the lines of basic intro to engineering / project management / finance

Anyone have any advice or experience of starting something like this, plus any insight into costs involved, potential of course accreditation or any other tips etc.

Thanks

It's a tall order......
First question that pops to mind: what experience have you in delivering such courses?
You are looking for customers so you have to have a worthwhile product that is of a recognised quality.
There are similar (but longer) courses on offer around the country (I know of some in IT Carlow) so what would be your offer?
The content will then determine the cost and the affiliation (which usually isn't cheap).

KyleJJE

bduffy wrote: »

It's a tall order......
First question that pops to mind: what experience have you in delivering such courses?
You are looking for customers so you have to have a worthwhile product that is of a recognised quality.
There are similar (but longer) courses on offer around the country (I know of some in IT Carlow) so what would be your offer?
The content will then determine the cost and the affiliation (which usually isn't cheap).

It would be my first time delivering a course, it's just something I have an interest in doing, the experience doesn't put me off, have to start somewhere. There is a local college that send out booklets advertising short courses that are like 200 to 300 to attend, I'm thinking it would fall in line with these.

bduffy

KyleJJE wrote: »

It would be my first time delivering a course, it's just something I have an interest in doing, the experience doesn't put me off, have to start somewhere. There is a local college that send out booklets advertising short courses that are like 200 to 300 to attend, I'm thinking it would fall in line with these.

At €300 the affiliation and CPD options are probably too expensive. We deliver bespoke courses to customers but they are fairly specialised due to subject matter.
I would suggest you search for similar courses and see what the course description includes. Then you can see if you have the material to offer something similar.
These courses never break even after a first delivery but after a second or third you start to see decent income.
Is a great journey but prepare for a few headaches. ....

I found this after a quick search. ..http://www.projectmanagementtraining.ie/project-management-courses-carlow/

bduffy

Another here http://m.everycourse.ie/adview/06d8fffdd2f2f9285205bce12609692f.html

KyleJJE

bduffy wrote: »

At €300 the affiliation and CPD options are probably too expensive. We deliver bespoke courses to customers but they are fairly specialised due to subject matter.
I would suggest you search for similar courses and see what the course description includes. Then you can see if you have the material to offer something similar.
These courses never break even after a first delivery but after a second or third you start to see decent income.
Is a great journey but prepare for a few headaches. ....

I found this after a quick search. ..http://www.projectmanagementtraining.ie/project-management-courses-carlow/

Thanks for the advice, I'll do some more research, but I see the type of course I'd like to complete a level below your example, more down the lines of an all round basic intro course.

Stheno

KyleJJE wrote: »

Thanks for the advice, I'll do some more research, but I see the type of course I'd like to complete a level below your example, more down the lines of an all round basic intro course.

Is it a course covering all three subjects? Have you experience in all three areas?

KyleJJE

Stheno wrote: »

Is it a course covering all three subjects? Have you experience in all three areas?

Hi, yes I have experience in these areas.

Stheno

Well in terms of preparing a course from scratch for each hour of content expect to spend up to six preparing the content

KyleJJE

Stheno wrote: »

Well in terms of preparing a course from scratch for each hour of content expect to spend up to six preparing the content

Thanks for advice