Starting an Online Educational Institution
My answer is incomplete, because my own experience is running a non-accredited online academy.
I would start with a creative writing course to germinate that germ of
an idea and prepare eventually for the "Masters" cut-off, the idea that
online colleges need to reach masters level (contain courses that can
generate 2*50 As per assignment).
The web site would contain your blog (with ideas for you) and courses
that eventually articulate, using the performance criteria-skill ladder
structure, to a course that can you can accredit if you feel like it
later.
A real college, whether it is online or not, requires paper work to
stay accredited. Annual reports can fill half a shoe box. So, it is
better to start non-accredited (and plan properly from the start) and
even do an MBA (so you can be creative in philosophy).
In the glossary below are some ingredients for success. I will briefly
synthesise them for you. A (a high distinction) is necessary for you to
write, students to write and the same thing for customers, induction is
an option (and can become as hand-written as you like) for saving time
writing As (notice how University corrects, completes and completes
individual reasons in high distinctions - you can too) and the Prolog
analytics (depending on Prolog, a computer language I prefer and
analytics, which you may or may not want to do, but is good for a
successful web site). Mind reading is approximate but these days can
obviously go together with analytics to power home results.
Sales are from people you know. You have to make something good that
people will want. If you can write down a way to ask a person to do
what they want, then you have passed the test.
Glossary
A is X, Y, Z dimensions of an object.
Mind reading is detecting thoughts by A taking a shorter time
Induction is finding all combinations of a set of commands, until you find an algorithm
Prolog analytics - an algorithm that accurately predicts when a
prospect who needs product, has money, is the decision -maker in
spending money will visit site and answers how to solve their problems
with the product. Your site could collect info from their comments on
what they would like instead and display the correct product next in a
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