Write a Course
Are you a professional engineer? Do you excel in your area of practice? If so, we want to hear from you. PDH-Pro is looking for subject matter experts to author continuing education courses for other engineers.
If you are a professional this is an excellent opportunity for you. Earn recognition and extra income by becoming a PDH-Pro continuing education course author, today!
- Earn Extra Income – We offer 40% revenue share for each course.
- No Cost to You – We provide publishing, marketing and administration with 24/7 access to your course. You write the course and earn extra money. We will do the rest.
- Help Your Colleagues – Developing original continuing education courses allows other licensed professionals to fulfill their continuing education requirements in the most economical way.
- Earn PDHs – Most states allow PDH credits for authoring a course.
- Online Income Status – As an author, you can check the revenue that your courses are generating anytime through your online account.
We offer a generous revenue sharing plan to encourage licensed professionals and engineering educators to become PDH-Pro course authors (instructors). As a PDH-Pro course author, you will be treated as an independent consultant, which effectively enables you to establish your own lifelong consulting business.
If you are interested in learning more about the benefits of becoming a PDH-Pro course author, send us an email at authors@PDH-Pro.com. In the email, provide a copy of your resume, a short biography, and a list of your proposed course topics for consideration.
What Are the Steps Involved in Creating a Course
Step 1: Select a topic based on your interest and experience. The course topic should fit the needs of professional engineers. When selecting a course topic, make sure the topic has a clear focus. Your course must be expansive enough to appeal to a large audience, but specific enough to provide useful information. Once you have selected a topic make a brief outline of the issues you want to present and expand upon them.
Step 2: Write Learning Objectives. Learning Objectives are what the student can expect to learn by the end of the course. Almost every state licensing board requires that Learning Objectives be clearly identified at the beginning of a continuing education course. There should be at least three Learning Objectives for each credit hour of the course. So a one-hour course should have at least three, and a four-hour course should have at least twelve. Learning Objectives should be one or two sentences in length.
Step 3: Create visual aids. Include non–copyrighted pictures, drawings, diagrams or charts as visual aids in your course material to help explain your topic. Proof read your material for grammatical and spelling errors before submission.
Step 4: Prepare a test. Tests questions should be in the form of True/False or multiple-choice. The test questions and answers may be submitted along with the course document. A one-hour course should contain ten test questions. Each additional hour should contain five additional questions. So, a two-hour course should contain 15 test questions.
Step 5: Include a list of references or online technical resources at the end of your course document. If online technical resources are referenced in the course materials, indicate the URL containing the material referenced. Give appropriate citations to any quotations used from other sources. You should also prepare a short biography of yourself to submit along with your first course.
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If you are interested in learning more about the benefits of becoming a PDH-Pro course author, send us an email at authors@PDH-Pro.com. In the email, provide a copy of your resume, a short biography, and a list of your proposed course topics for consideration.
What Are the Guidelines to Write a Course
Following are the guidelines for all PDH-Pro continuing education courses:
Course Content
- Course topics should relate to professional issues of interest to engineers.
- Course content may be based upon the instructor’s own lecture note or any other publication in the public domain.
- Course content must be an original work of the instructor. Copyrighted materials may only be present with the copyright holder’s permission. The course instructor is responsible for obtaining written release for all copyrighted material.
- All source materials must be referenced in the course notes directly or in a bibliography at the end of the course text.
- PDH-Pro reserves the right to reject any course that is a duplicate or outside the instructor’s proficiency. Please search our course library to see if the course is currently being offered. All course topics must be approved by PDH-Pro before they will be made available to the general public.
- Courses should be one, two or three hours in length. An average student should be able to read and take the test in that time frame. A one course hour is equivalent to 12 to 15 typed pages.
- Select the course title carefully. Titles should be less than seven words in length. Longer titles may discourage course participation.
- At the beginning of the course text, please include the following: a course description, a statement of the profession the course is intended to serve, an outline of the course material, and a list of the learning objectives; (3) learning objectives per hour of course material.
- Courses may contain a list of related links and references where students may find additional information related to the course topic.
Course Test and Answers
- The instructor is responsible for preparing test questions for his or her course. The test questions must appear at the end of the course content document so that students may prepare their answers prior to taking the online test.
- Test questions must be either multiple-choice or True/False. Both types may be used in a single test, however True/False questions may not make up more than half of the questions.
- Multiple-choice questions must include at least three choices and not more than six choices.
- One hour length courses must contain at least ten test questions. Two hour length courses must contain at least 15 test questions. Three hour length courses must contain at least 20 test questions.
- The instructor must indicate the correct answer to each question by submitting a separate document containing the entire test in which the correct answers are in a distinctive color or in bold text.
- Test questions and answers may include diagrams, tables, charts or any other graphic device necessary to the question. All such devices must be the instructor’s original work.
Submittal Requirements
- The course content must be submitted in electronic format, as a single document, in Microsoft Word or Power Point.
- If the course contains graphics, diagrams or images included in the course content they must be embedded in the electronic document file.
Publishing Your Online Course
Once accepted by PDH-Pro, your online course materials will be reviewed and edited by our staff to meet our editorial and style requirements. During the implementation process, we may ask you to test the pre-release version of the online course as a part of our quality assurance program. We will jointly produce the final version that will appear on the PDH-Pro website.
Remember, online publishing is a partnering effort between you, the course provider, and PDH. We are always available to assist you should you have any questions about content, format or procedures.
Learn More
If you are interested in learning more about the benefits of becoming a PDH-Pro course author, send us an email at authors@PDH-Pro.com. In the email, provide a copy of your resume, a short biography, and a list of your proposed course topics for consideration.
Compensation
What PDH-Pro offers to course authors?
- We offer 40% revenue share for each self-study course, for the life of the course.
- We offer 50% revenue share for each live webinar course.
- Payments are made quarterly.
- Course instructors are provided an account with 24/7 access to course activitiy and status on revenues generated by your courses.
- We offer recognition and extra income each time your course is purchased.
- We offer course marketing and availability. Your courses will be marketed along with other continuing education courses. All courses will be available online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- We offer FREE publishing, marketing and administration. You write the review course and earn extra money. We will do the rest.
How is the course fee decided?
PDH-Pro decides the course fee, and the revenue share is based on this price.The current standard tuition rate is $15 to $50 per hour of PDH credit. Discounted tuition rates may be applied to courses offering more than 4 PDH credits. Special rates may also be arranged between the provider and PDHonline.org/PDHcenter.com. Tuition may be discounted during promotional periods. Free online courses may be offered if a corporate sponsor is available.
In general, self-study course with materials taken from public domain sources is approximately $9 per hour of credit; a self-study course with original materials from the author is approximately $20 per hour of credit; live webinar courses are approximately $40 per hour of credit.
With thousands of licensed professionals across the country seeking online continuing education material every year, the potential market for your courses is enormous.
What are the offering modes of the course?
PDH-Pro has developed a system and tools to offer any course in the following four formats:
- Live Webinar Courses
- Self-study Material
- Ondemand Videos
The most popular offering mode of PDH courses is via Self-Study Material. Therefore, information we have provided in other questions is more relevant to Self-Study Material format. Of course, there is a demand for other modes which not many organizations are capable of offering and therefore, there is a good opportunity for you to do more through PDH-Pro’s Continuing Education program. If you are interested in offering your PDH course in modes other than self-study material, please let us know and we will discuss it as a case-by-case.
Learn More
If you are interested in learning more about the benefits of becoming a PDH-Pro course author, send us an email at authors@PDH-Pro.com. In the email, provide a copy of your resume, a short biography, and a list of your proposed course topics for consideration.