Teach for Us

Most professionals have more than enough expertise in their field to become a course writer. As long as your topics are of educational value to a practicing engineer, you may pass on some of the knowledge you have gained over your career. Developing original continuing education courses can be both satisfying and profitable. You are helping other licensed professionals fulfill their continuing education requirements in the most economical way.

• Our compensation package consists of a 40% revenue share every time someone purchases your course.
• Payments are made quarterly.
• We make your course easily accessible on our website.
• You may use this experience as a resume-booster.
• We offer free publishing, marketing, and administration. You write the review course and earn extra money; we will do the rest.

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, which 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. Therefore, a four-hour course should have at least twelve.

Step 3: Create visual aids, which include non–copyrighted pictures, drawings, diagrams or charts as visual aids in your course material to help explain your topic. Proofread your material for grammatical and spelling errors before submission.

Step 4: Prepare a quiz. Quiz questions should be in the form of True/False or multiple-choice. The quiz questions and answers may be submitted along with the course material. A one-hour course should contain ten quiz questions. Each additional hour should contain five additional questions. So, a two-hour course should contain 15 quiz questions.

Step 5: With your course material, include a list of references or online technical resources. 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.

Following are the guidelines for all School of PE continuing education courses:

Course Content:

• Course topics should relate to professional topics of interest to engineers.
• Course content may be based upon the writer’s own lecture notes or any other publication in the public domain.
• Course content must be an original work of the author. Copyrighted materials may only be presented with the copyright holder’s permission. The course writer is responsible for obtaining written release for all copyrighted material.
• All source materials must be referenced in the course notes directly and in a bibliography at the end of the course text.
• School of PE reserves the right to reject any course that is a duplicate or outside the writer’s proficiency. Please search our course library to see if the course is currently being offered. All course topics must be approved by School of PE before they will be made available to the general public.
• For each PDH, you need a minimum of 10 pages of course material.
• Select the course title carefully as it should be appealing to perspective students.
• 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 Quiz and Answers:

• The writer is responsible for preparing quiz questions for his or her course.
• Quiz questions must be either multiple-choice questions or true/false. Both types may be used in a single quiz; 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 credit PDH courses must contain at least ten quiz questions. Two credit PDH courses must contain at least 15 quiz questions. Three credit PDH courses must contain at least 20 quiz questions.
• The writer must indicate the correct answer to each question by submitting a separate document containing the entire quiz in which the correct answers are in a distinctive color or in bold text.
• Quiz questions and answers may include diagrams, tables, charts or any other graphic device necessary to the question. All such devices must be the writer’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.

School of PE decides the course fee. In general, for a one PDH course, School of PE may charge each student approximately $29.95.

School of PE offers the following learning formats for PDH courses:

• Active Learning (self-study)
• Webinars