10 Online Courses You Can Start When You Retire

Online courses are a lucrative business due to the high level of demand for internet courses. People are taking online tutoring courses to help them consolidate their job skills or get advanced education without leaving their home or office.

Online courses are popular because:

• Internet courses are cheaper than course fees charged by colleges. As students do not attend courses in physical classes, course providers save on rent and this cost saving is passed on to students by way of lower course fees.


• they are convenient and flexible. People are busy with their full time jobs and have family and other commitments. Internet courses allow them to plan their studies around their jobs and othe commitments. They also save on travelling costs and time.


• there is less peer-pressure than studying in real classrooms. There are no worries about competition from other class-mates, classroom anxiety or fear of missing lectures for whatever reasons.

People are constantly looking for various types of self improvement online courses. Here are 10 online courses you can start when you retire:

1. life coaching courses to help others to achieve their goals. Life coaching courses are popular because life coaching helps them to break their negative belief patterns and mindsets.


2. bookkeeping and accountancy


3. business management


4. internet marketing


5. personal skills and development


6. stress and anger management


7. playing musical instruments, like a guitar or an harmonica


8. teaching school subjects like English and Maths


9. teaching computer skills and literacy


10. home maintenance courses, like electrical and plumbing courses

What knowledge and technical expertise do you need to provide online courses?

Before teaching a course online, you should have a good knowledge and experience of the subject you are teaching on your ecourse. This knowledge is likely to come from years of experience from your professional work.

You must also be comfortable performing the following tasks on your computer:

• Surfing the Internet and using search engines.


• writing your course materials and editing documents in a word processing program such as Microsoft Word.


• Creating new folders, copying and pasting text from one document to another.


• Dealing with emails with attachments, whether you are sending or receiving them.


• Handling video or tele-conferencing when advising your clients on a one-to-one basis.

You will need a website to promote your online courses. You then list the ecourses you are providing on your website and the price for each course.

The course materials can be delivered in weekly instalments by autoresponders or, if your clients prefer, they can also click a link to download the entire course.

Alternatively, you can set up a membership site and charge monthly subscriptions for downloading the course materials and submitting course assignments. A forum for members to interact with one another and share their learning experiences is also useful.

An online tutoring business is cheap to run because once the course notes have been written and properly set up in autoresponders, they are automatically delivered to your clients at pre-determined time periods. The overheads are low because you don't need to rent classroom space and you save on printing and stationery.

However, you do need to monitor your clients' progress and give them the necessary guidance to help them along their courses.

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