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How to teach it online without a degree.

So say you are interested in giving back and helping to develop the next generation of IT professionals, technology professionals, and you want to teach but you don't have a degree or you don't have a degree in it, or computer science or something like that. So most of the time, when a University College community college is looking for somebody to teach a particular course, oftentimes they're looking for somebody with a relevant degree. Generally, it'll be a graduate level degree, especially if you're teaching in a undergraduate bachelor's degree program.

And I did a previous video on you know, how you can, you know, set yourself up for getting online teaching positions, you know, you've got the degree, you've got the credentials, etc. But what happens when you don't have those credentials, what happens when, you know, maybe you are a very skilled individual, you're skilled network engineer, but you don't have a college degree. Or maybe you are currently working in cybersecurity, and you've got an English degree.

Alright. So there are some things that you can do. So first of all, some universities and colleges, community colleges, they can qualify you to teach a course based on your work experience. So if you think about how, you know there are certain maybe music musicians, famous musicians, famous artists, etc, that are able to teach at a university, and they may not necessarily have a degree, well, they're, they're being qualified based on their work experience. So there are some ways that you can still teach at a community college, or a university, that kind of thing.

But you can teach, you might want to look into teaching for IT Training companies, they fall outside of some of the accreditation requirements that you know, that institutes of higher education fall under. So if you look for your corporate training organizations, it training organizations, people that go out and do certification trainings, people that go out to do your trainings at at companies on site training, and even online training as well. So you can look for sort of that corporate training model that is looking to you where they were a company will come and hire you to teach their staff. So the other option that I really highly recommend is to build your own courses.

So just because you don't have the right credentials, to be able to teach in some other areas, or maybe you do have the right credentials to teach in some other areas, I firmly believe that you should develop your own courses, create a, you know, create a business around this, and I've spoken about this in previous videos is that to treat online teaching to treat your online teaching endeavor as a career, and there's going to be a lot of different ways that you're going to earn revenue in this in this business, or I said, treat his crew treated as your business, right. But there's going to be a lot of different ways that you're going to generate revenue out of this.

And so one of the ways you're going to do that is to build your own courses and sell them yourself. And you can do that in a couple of different ways. There are online learning marketplaces where people can go,