The Dream Begins to Become Reality

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After more than two years of research, preparation, planning, and frustration, today the dream takes the first steps toward reality. I’m stoked. I hope you will be, too.

I have begun creating the home website for The Online School for Creative Arts (TOSCA). It is very basic, but there are 27 connected websites that make this page possible. Now, I have committed to myself to make this dream a reality. There are tons of challenges to be met.

Right now, I have the problem of finding the very best educational talent to join, create, develop, test, and present the more than 150 courses the schools are planned to present. How do you sell someone on a dream? If they clearly understand the goal, and can see themselves IN it, the sell is easier. Wide open opportunity to create what you want, as you want, using the most current and dynamic educational software available on the market today. That can be intimidating for anyone, much less a professional educator.

But, beyond the teaching talent profile, these folks need to clearly understand  and accept the concept of TOSCA. The premier online learning opportunity for students of Creative Writing, Creative Music, and Creative Faith Studies will pull many different types of people who wish to give to the success of the schools. But, how do I find them? Dreamers, currently working educators with a passion to create study courses their way, that are relevant to those people looking for an alternative education to the “brick and mortar” alternatives they have, with a prohibitive cost to boot. Can these idealogues work within a 12 week limit, yet creatively present even something as dry and mundane as basic English Grammar? Will they dare to spread their wings, and create from a “clean screen” the course of a lifetime. Will the discounted / free prices work for testing the work of these dreamers?

One theory says that “if you build it, they will come.” I am, to a small degree, trusting that theory. Yet, it will be the very best of the best who will lead this dream to the reality it deserves. I see working professors who want a creative outlet, creative license, and enough income to prove the time such course development requires, especially within the confines of the software we are providing. But, there are more than 1,500 students who have participated in the “lab tests” that A-1 gave me. I know the educational product they got worked very well.

I am so excited to begin this project. It will revolutionize learning, and especially online learning. This is a much more difficult type of learning I think. Perhaps I’ll write a tutorial on that in my next post. In the meantime, if you are a classic dreamer with passion, dedication, creativity, and the dream of creating it right, please let me know. I’ve got more than 150 courses to get in the catalogue.

Good luck on your journey. I’m having a riot on mine.

Budroe

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