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150-Hour TESOL Online Learn TEFL review (https://learntefl.com/) submitted by Zoey.

150-Hour TESOL Online.

Here is my review of Learn TEFL’s 150-Hour TESOL Online ‘Master’ course.

In hindsight, I made the mistake of trying to save $$$ by zoning in on a teaching English training deal on Groupon that at the time just seemed too good to be true. But I was blinded by the huge 86% discount which was pushed at the time as being a limited-time offer, and which has since been on a limited-time offer for the many months since I took this sloppy course.

Among some of the content claimed to come with the Learn TEFL course, include ’12 Comprehensive Modules’, ‘Job Assistance’, ‘Personalised Tutor Access’, and ’24/7 accessibility from any device’.

I was able to complete each module in under an hour. Definitely not ‘comprehensive’

There was no ‘job assistance’. When you complete the course, Learn TEFL closes your account and that’s the end of any communication with the company.

I didn’t receive any ‘Personalised Tutor Access’.

The course was accessible 24 hours a day, but the course works best on a laptop. It works patchy on an iPad. Forget trying to complete any of the courses on your phone. The course isn’t responsive enough for any work on a phone.

The certificate Learn TEFL issue can’t be legalized. Well, mine wasn’t accepted when I needed it legalized for the teaching job I was accepted for.

You really get what you pay for. A course that is on a constant 86% discount just won’t cut it for you. It didn’t cut it for me. The cheap cheap cheap online TESOL courses might seem like incredible deals, but they are incredible deals for a reason.

To conclude. A Learn TEFL course is going to be a waste of money and time.

You might be able to get some work with the certificate, but most institutions won’t take you seriously if you have it on your resume.

I learned the hard way. Please don’t make the same mistake as I did.

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International Open Academy review (https://internationalopenacademy.com/) written by Kate.

I don’t recommend the teaching English online course offer through IOA TEFL.

I have a few reasons why I wouldn’t recommend you take their course. Asides from finding it difficult to find work after taking the course, and most of the things promised never materializing, the course just doesn’t do a good enough job of doing what it should do, i.e. teach you how to teach English. I should have listened to the negative comments voiced in the reviews, but I was taken in by the mouth-watering low cost of the course.

My main beef with the course is that it was way too easy and way too light on content.

It’s structured so that you read a short piece of text and then take a multiple-choice quiz. This is repeated until you have completed the course. I completed the whole course in one afternoon, and there is no possible way how anyone can expect to be a knowledgeable teacher after learning for so little time. If I had taken my time more, by taking notes along the way, I suppose I could have stretched my course completion time to two days (at most) It’s a bit like playing Mario Cart and then expecting to be able to get in a real car and go driving down the highway. It just isn’t realistic. Also, I understand that any text-based course will inevitably have a few typing mistakes here and there, but the spelling errors in this course were numerous.

There hasn’t been any help with finding work and the jobs I have applied to haven’t taken my IOA TEFL certificate seriously. If you want to save money big by taking this course then that’s your choice. Just don’t expect any service and expect to be at the bottom of the pile when applying for any teaching English job.

I will soldier on with my job applications, but it’s looking more and more realistic that I will need to pay for another TEFL course and with a different company. Next time I won’t make the mistake of choosing the cheapest one being advertised.

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Learn TEFL review, submitted by Ansel.

If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. The Learn TEFL course was on offer for under $20 and an adviser reached out to me to help me sign up for classes. They were extremely friendly and persistent with their help, and I thought this would be a good sign that Learn TEFL cares about its students. Unfortunately, they just want you to sign up and then you are completely on your own with no help or support. I began the course at 7:32 am on a Monday morning and by 5:45 pm that same day had completed the 150-hour TEFL certification course. I don’t know how Learn TEFL calculated the 150 hours that the course is meant to consist of. There are no video lectures or resources to help you learn deeper, and you won’t learn enough to really know anything about teaching English.

The only silver lining of the course was that I did become aware of just how complicated teaching grammar is.

I’m going to enroll in a more expensive course (which doesn’t cost $20) in the new year and get a recognized TEFL certificate which actually teaches the basics of how to teach. I’m giving Learn TEFL 2 stars because I did learn something and I consider that justice for the price I paid. I wouldn’t recommend the program though and I can’t understand how anyone could teach English after taking such a course that is so sparse on instruction.

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A Rip Off International Open Academy review, written by Abella.

It’s a Rip Off.

where do I begin? Well, the course is not as advertised. It is advertised as consisting of 120 hours of study. If this is so, why was it possible that I managed to complete the entire course in 4 hours? Oh, and the friend I took the course with completed it in 7 hours. So, I win! Kind of.

There is literally no substance of any real value in the course. It’s extremely vague and merely skims what you need to know to get started as a teacher of a foreign language. In this case, the course was teaching me how to teach English as a foreign language.

My friend and I came to the same conclusion that this course was quickly put together (possibly by a non-native speaker) and the only intention was to make it appear as though it is a credible 120 hours TEFL course. I mean, if I had a penny for every time we noticed a glaring spelling mistake in the course texts, we could have paid for another 10 courses!

They are clever though because they say it is usually a few hundred USD and that today is your lucky day when you can purchase it for less than $20. A bit like buying a couch or sofa in a furniture warehouse. And just like those heavily discounted couches, I bet nobody has ever paid the full price for this International Open Academy TEFL course.

You will not learn a thing.

I guess if you just need it because you have been working for years without the proper documentation and are required to have a TEFL certificate then why not? You can pay $19 and complete the course in under a day and then see if the school and the authorities accept it as a document for the work visa in the country you are teaching English in.

For me though, with no teaching experience, this course was a complete waste of my time and money. I tried to get a refund but never heard back from the Open Academy.

Shame on them! It is just a rip-off.

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TEFL Online Cheap International Open Academy review, written by Esther.

TEFL Online Cheap.

When I signed up for this cheap TEFL course I sort of knew what I was getting myself into. I knew that the low price point of the course would need to be balanced out somewhere down the line and in the end my spidey senses were proved correct. This review isn’t about whether you should or shouldn’t take one of these bucket-priced courses but is rather just what my take from my experience was.

The standout positive was of course the course price. It was $19 for the course. On the Open Academy website, they list the course as being $119 but I found a great deal through Groupon and since taking the course the deal has remained the same on Groupon. My guess is that Open Academy list the price so high on their site that when you see the huge bargain over at Groupon you think you are getting an amazing deal. I mean you are getting an amazing price but I think the course is probably only worth $19 and I definitely would have to feel cheated if I had paid the quoted website price.

Open Academy doesn’t just specialize in TEFL courses. They offer many different types of courses ranging from ‘Master Herbalist’ (whatever that means) to Handmade Soap Making. All of their courses are heavily marked down in price on Groupon.

I was able to complete the course in one afternoon. You read a section of the text, take the multiple-choice quiz, and repeat. I did learn something about teaching English but it doesn’t take an Einstein to realize that a course that can be taken in one day will prepare you for a career in teaching.

At the end of the course, you print out your certificate. I thought it looked OK but my friends picked holes in it.

Oh and a few worthy notes here are that there wasn’t a live tutor and there wasn’t any after-sales support.

But then again it did only cost $19. What do you expect?

I think that if you just need a TEFL certificate to show in the face of an employer then this one might work for you. I really can’t comment on how recognized the certificate is because I haven’t tried using it yet, but Open Academy claim that it is “recognized internationally” and I have no way right now of verifying this claim.

What I can say is that this course will in no way prepare you for teaching.

If like me you want to make a living from teaching English and if you want to feel prepared enough for your students, I would look elsewhere and invest a bit more money in a course that will take you through all the ins and outs of what is required of a teacher of English. The Open Academy TEFL course falls way short of teaching you teaching English basics.

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International Open Academy review, written by Ryan.

If you arrive at the decision to go cheap and low and take the TEFL course provided by International Open Academy, you won’t be the first and I’m certain you won’t be the last. It must be the cheapest TEFL course around and there are lots of people attracted to the super-low price tag. You will learn something on the course (the reason why I did give two stars and not one) but if you want to better prepare yourself for teaching, I would strongly recommend paying a bit more and taking a course with a better reputation, and a course that actually teaches you how to teach. Don’t misunderstand me, you can teach at some schools with this certification. But I’ve read some of the trips reports online about how people reached the end stage of their work visa process, only to discover that their International Open Academy certificate wasn’t accepted as a proof of teacher status document. As others have written in their reviews, you could complete the course in a couple of days if you pushed yourself. Still, though, I don’t think the course should be completely written off. The only circumstance when I would recommend taking it is if you want to get a general idea about how teaching works. The course is so cheap that you can sign up and quickly complete it, and then invest your money in a superior program. So to conclude, I wouldn’t recommend taking this course if you are serious about teaching English. But you could take it as a TEFL taster course, and then take a standard 120-hour TEFL course which will properly train you up and make you look (and feel) like you know what you are doing.

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