ITTT review, submitted by Matt.

I purchased the 120-Hour online TEFL course and then a week later went to study it and it was gone! I have spent hours trying to reach someone. Finally was able to “create a ticket” and gave them screen shot which proved I had paid 249.00 plus gave them the date of the purchase and other information they asked for and then got an email that because I did not respond, the issue is considered resolved. Absolutely no satisfaction and yes, terrible customer service!

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The 5 Best Online TEFL/TESOL Courses

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2025 has come and gone, and as a result, we are now looking forward to what 2026 will bring to the world of online TEFL/TESOL certification course tuition.

However, before moving forward, we fundamentally believe it is important to take a brief look back at 2025, as the past is often a reliable predictor of the future.

2026 TEFL Online Reviews – The Good

To begin with, let’s start with the 5 Best Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs in 2025.

Overall, the 5 Best Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs in 2025 were:

1. TEFL Online Pro
Website: https://teflonlinepro.com/
Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-reviews-in-2025/

Top of our list is TEFL Online Pro. Students consistently rate their courses, customer support, and teaching online and abroad job-finding services as being excellent. All TEFL Online Pro courses come with 24/7 online tutor support, and there are no hidden fees.

Notably, TEFL Online Pro was the winner of the Teachers’ Choice Award in 2025—winning for a seventh consecutive year.

2. OISE University of Toronto TEFL
Website: https://teflonline.teachaway.com/
Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/oise-university-of-toronto-tefl/

In second place on our list is OISE University of Toronto TEFL. Student feedback on this program is consistently positive, and one of the standout positive points of feedback is the program’s links to the University of Toronto. All OISE University of Toronto TEFL courses come with online tutor support, and there are no hidden fees.

3. CIEE TEFL
Website: https://www.ciee.org/
Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/ciee-tefl/

In third place on our list is CIEE TEFL. Student feedback on this program is consistently positive, and all their courses come with online tutor support and international job guidance services. CIEE TEFL offers job placement support for countries such as Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, and there are no hidden fees.

4. Maximo Nivel TEFL
Website: https://maximonivel.com/
Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/maximo-nivel-tefl/

In fourth place on our list is Maximo Nivel TEFL. Student feedback on this program is consistently positive, and one of the standout positive points of feedback is their ability to provide job placement services for the Central/South American teaching markets. All Maximo Nivel TEFL courses come with online tutor support, and there are no hidden fees.

5. Vantage TEFL Certification
Website: https://www.englishatvantage.com/tefl-combined-class-thailand/
Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/vantage-tefl-certification/

In fifth place on our list is Vantage TEFL Certification. Student feedback on this program is consistently positive, and all their courses come with online tutor support. Graduates highly rate this program for job-finding support services within Thailand. Vantage TEFL Certification also offers a 4-week (in-class) TEFL/TESOL course.

Importantly, the 5 Best Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs in 2025 remain unchanged heading into 2026.

For further details, read the full article.

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2026 TEFL Online Reviews – The Bad And The Scams

Unfortunately, not all providers meet acceptable standards.

With that in mind, the 5 Worst Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs in 2025 were:

1. ESLinsider
   Website: https://www.eslinsider.com/
   Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/eslinsider-tefl/

ESLinsider has been banned from Facebook since 2027 for spreading disinformation and misinformation. In contrast, despite attempting to portray itself as a TEFL whistleblower website, this is merely a marketing ploy to promote a single course—its own. Additionally, it is notorious for self-publishing fake reviews.

2. TTA The TEFL Academy
   Website: https://www.theteflacademy.com/
   Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/the-tefl-academy/

TTA The TEFL Academy publishes false information regarding its worldwide accreditation status. In reality, it is not accredited at all. Furthermore, it is notorious for self-publishing fake reviews. At best, its certificates are only recognized in Ireland, England, and Malta.

3. MyTEFL
   Website: https://mytefl.com/
   Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/mytefl-blacklisted-warning/

MyTEFL created its own fake accreditation website and is Similarly notorious for self-publishing fake reviews.

4. ITTT International TEFL and TESOL Training
   Website: https://www.teflcourse.net/
   Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/ittt/

Meanwhile, ITTT operates over ten different but strikingly similar websites and is also notorious for self-publishing fake reviews.

5. World TESOL Academy
   Website: https://www.worldtesolacademy.com/
   Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/world-tesol-academy/

Ultimately, its certificates are considered a joke within the TEFL world. Once again, it is notorious for self-publishing fake reviews.

As expected, the 5 Worst Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs in 2025 are also unchanged heading into 2026.

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Additionally, a dishonorable mention would not be complete without also mentioning TEFL Universal and Henry Harvin Education:

TEFL Universal
Website: https://tefluniversal.com/
Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-universal/

After TTR exposed TEFL Universal for its scam practices, it decided to change its school logo—presumably in an attempt to distance itself from numerous valid customer complaints. Nevertheless, it remains notorious for self-publishing fake reviews.

Henry Harvin Education
Website: https://www.henryharvin.com/tefl-course
Reviews: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/henry-harvin-education/

Likewise, Henry Harvin redesigned its website after TTR exposed it for scamming online TEFL/TESOL students. It too remains notorious for self-publishing fake reviews.

2026 TEFL Online Reviews: Conclusion

As an additional note, the winner of the Teachers’ Choice Award is eligible to run course discount advertisements for the entire year during their award tenure.

Consequently, this is why TEFL Online Pro is currently given carte blanche to promote its course discounts.

Likewise, the winner of the Teachers’ Choice Award in 2026 will enjoy the same perk.

Finally, let’s hope that 2026 brings peace, happiness, and—most importantly—a significant reduction in scam online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs.

Thank you for reading this “2026 TEFL Online Reviews & 2025 Year in Review” Trusted TEFL Reviews article.

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4 Worst TEFL Courses 2026, written by Mia Williams – co-founder of Trusted TEFL Reviews.

December 8, 2025 Notice:

It has been brought to our attention that ITTT TEFL, My TEFL, and TTA The TEFL Academy have been offering their TEFL graduates free “bonus” courses (which are worthless) in return for writing a positive review on their Facebook pages and on the other review websites where they have hundreds of positive reviews.

This is the reason why ITTT TEFL, My TEFL, and TTA The TEFL Academy have such awful reviews on trustedteflreviews.com and amazing reviews on other platforms. This is a scam.

There are some excellent Online TEFL/TESOL certification course options out there, and there are some that you should avoid.

The best Online TEFL/TESOL certification courses come with excellent support and offer certificates that are Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

The worst Online TEFL/TESOL certification courses lack sufficient student support and lack international recognition.

Here are the 4 worst TEFL courses in 2026, in all their upside down glory – starting at the 4th worst and continuing down to the worst of the worst:

4. ITTT International TEFL and TESOL Training

There are a few stand-out issues with the ITTT TEFL program:

1. It employs aggressive affiliate marketers that hype up the course on platforms such as Quora. The most prolific of these is Linda Dunsmore – Marketing Manager at (yep, you guessed right) ITTT. Linda spams Quora with helpful posts about how she was an ITTT graduate and how the course worked for her. What she doesn’t come clean about, though, is that she is on the ITTT management marketing team.
2. ITTT doesn’t just have one program website. Instead, it has more than 10 of them. They all look similar, but each contains slightly different claims and each looks different enough that the waters are muddied when it comes to pinpointing the true identity of the core company website.
3. ITTT is a company headquartered in Thailand, and they are accredited by some pretty dodgy accreditation companies. One of these is OTTSA, and another is The Teacher Training Council. Both are registered in Thailand, and both have been exposed as fake accreditation websites. The Teacher Training Council can’t even spell “Accreditation” correctly. They spell it, “AccrediDation”.

ITTT International TEFL and TESOL Training is Accredited but is not Fully Accredited.

You can read further information about ITTT, including verified customer reviews, in the Trusted TEFL Reviews ITTT TEFL category: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/ittt/

3. MyTEFL

MyTEFL exploded into the Online TEFL training arena about 5 or 6 years ago.

It claims to have been around for a lot longer, but 5 or 6 years is a more realistic and honest assessment.

Students tend to like the course.

That’s where the positives end.

1. MyTEFL is propped up by a fake accreditation body ( Online TESOL and TEFL Standards Agency – OTTSA) and another one that they recently created: the International TEFL Accreditation Council – ITEFLAC. New! MyTEFL is now also “accredited” by the International Council for Online Educational Standards (ICOES). ICOES also accredits such bastions of international education including, but not limited to, ‘Permanent Jewelry Bestie’ and ‘spray tan class’.
2. Graduates regularly complain that they were ripped off by bait-and-switch scams on the job placements abroad that they accepted through MyTEFL and its parent company, Footprints Language Education Ltd. Teachers arrived to find that the accommodation and pay weren’t as promised, and some discovered that a percentage of their monthly salary was being deducted and paid back to MyTEFL/Footprints Language Education Ltd.
3. MyTEFL has tried to have fake reviews published on Trusted TEFL Reviews and reacted very poorly when we refused to publish these unverified “customer” reviews. Its response was to launch a campaign against us, claiming that this review website is biased toward certain TEFL programs. They even went so far as to claim that Trusted TEFL Reviews is owned by OISE University of Toronto TEFL and/or TEFL Online Pro. Yep, the true sign of a reputable company is to attack the reviews site that refused to publish its fake “customer” reviews.

MyTEFL is Accredited but is not Fully Accredited.

You can read further information about MyTEFL, including verified customer reviews, in the Trusted TEFL Reviews MyTEFL category: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/mytefl-blacklisted-warning/

2. TTA The TEFL Academy

This company is a car crash waiting to happen, so go grab your popcorn and a comfy couch.

TTA The TEFL Academy claims to be “Fully Accredited” by a few organizations, with one of these being DEAC.

We sent out an inquiry to DEAC yesterday, and they responded that TTA The TEFL Academy is not accredited by them.

The helpful people at DEAC directed us to a page on their website, where the public can check whether a TEFL program is listed in their database.

Here is that link: https://www.deac.org/Student-Center/Directory-Of-Accredited-Institutions.aspx

1. TTA The TEFL Academy claims to be accredited by AQC, DEAC, QUALIFI, and even by Ofqual. It is accredited by no company. It is only regulated by Ofqual and QUALIFI, and it also appears that QUALIFI might have been created by the good folks at TTA The TEFL Academy.
2. TTA the TEFL Academy has tried to have its staff-written reviews published on Trusted TEFL Reviews. Last year, one of its full-time Brand Ambassador employees became infuriated with me because I wouldn’t publish her review that read like a TTA TEFL brochure. What was her response? She said that Trusted TEFL Reviews is biased and began writing rubbish about me and my reviews site online. Oh, and, of course, she claims that Trusted TEFL Reviews is owned by TEFL Online Pro because it is the top-rated program on this site currently. And all because we wouldn’t publish her review.
3. Despite having its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, TTA The TEFL Academy certificates are not recognized for English teaching jobs in Ireland. In Malta neither. The one place where you are guaranteed to be able to use your TTA The TEFL Academy certificate is in the UK. Reviewers have complained about not being able to use their TTA The TEFL Academy certificates for some online teaching jobs and some overseas jobs.
4. TTA The TEFL Academy aggressively promotes itself through a network of affiliate marketers – people who may or may not have taken one of its courses. These marketing minions earn a 20% referral fee every time someone books a TTA The TEFL Academy course through their affiliate website. This is one of the reasons why we feel that TTA The TEFL Academy courses are overpriced.

TTA The TEFL Academy is Unaccredited. It is neither Accredited nor Fully Accredited.

The TEFL Academy, via its network of Brand Ambassadors, aggressively pushes the notion that it is fully accredited and aggressively pushes the notion that some of the reputable organizations that are competitors are Fully Accredited are, in fact, fake. I hear defamation lawsuit bells ringing!

You can read further information about TTA The TEFL Academy, including verified customer reviews, in the Trusted TEFL Reviews The TEFL Academy category: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/the-tefl-academy/

1. ESLinsider

The popcorn and couch time might have already passed with this program because our research has shown that ESLinsider is not a full-time-functioning TEFL program anymore.

I spent a lazy Sunday searching through the many Reddit user names of the owner of ESLinsider TEFL (Ian Patrick Leahy) and I read how he returned from Japan to New Hampshire because his website wasn’t doing so well. In the two years since then, Ian has worked on ski and snowboarding slopes in New Hampshire and Montana.

It appears that he is now planning on working a summer season this year in Oregon.

I also read some of Ian’s Reddit questions – enquiring about traveling to either Chile or New Zealand for under-the-table paid work.

Why does ESLinsider come in at number 1 for the worst TEFL courses in 2026?

1. Ian Patrick Leahy began the ESLinsider TEFL program because he hated teaching English and wanted to earn a quick buck by running online TEFL courses, which he called TEKA courses. The problem was that he didn’t have enough experience or knowledge to even teach, never mind running a training program. This didn’t deter Ian and he soldiered on, creating linguistic minefield disasters as his objective grew.
2. He was clever in one respect. He created a blog for ESLinsider, where he tried to convey the impression that he was an ESL expert. He also “reviewed” his competitor’s TEFL programs (which he never even paid and took) and wrote critical feedback on them – all the while linking back to his blog and to his ESLinsider course. This meant that you could Google any well-known Online TEFL program and you would see ESLinsider’s take on it. The obvious reason for spending so much of his time doing this was that he hoped to convince people that his TEFL course was better and that they should pay him to take his course. His MO is to claim that such and such a course or person is a “scam”, “fake”, “fraud”, etc. He also went after reputable accreditation bodies – after all, his courses were unaccredited so he had to try and angle it that accreditation bodies are all fake.
3. Ian (ESLinsider) was the first TEFL program that we received a fake review and it was the first time that a TEFL program retaliated against us for not publishing its fake review. Ian Patrick Leahy from ESLinsider was the person who began the misinformation that Trusted TEFL Reviews is biased and owned by CIEE TEFL, OISE University of Toronto TEFL, and TEFL Online Pro. Of course, this is not true.
4. He is also alleged to have conned his paying customers out of their money. This is one example of a group of Ian Patrick Leahy’s ESLinsider TEFL students, who were left out of pocket by Ian:

ESLinsider is Unaccredited. It is neither Accredited nor Fully Accredited.

You can read further information about ESLinsider, including verified customer reviews, in the Trusted TEFL Reviews ESLinsider category: https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/eslinsider-tefl/

Our Tip!

To avoid falling victim to a TEFL scam, check how high or low a program is ranked in the TEFL Course Directory: https://trustedteflreviews.com/tefl-course-directory/

The top-rated schools in the directory are top-rated for a legitimate reason.

You can also check the TEFL Accreditation Guide, to see which organizations provide Fully Accredited certificates: https://trustedteflreviews.com/tefl-accreditation-guide/

Worst TEFL Courses 2026 related links:

ITTT TEFL Accreditation: https://trustedteflreviews.com/2022/03/23/ittt-tefl-accreditation/

TTA The TEFL Academy Scam Warning: https://trustedteflreviews.com/2019/03/25/the-tefl-academy-certification-review/

The MyTEFL Scam: https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/01/24/the-mytefl-com-scam/

The ESLinsider Scam: https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/02/03/eslinsider-reviews-scam/

Affiliate Marketing Scam: https://trustedteflreviews.com/2022/02/07/tefl-affiliate-marketing-scam/

December 1st, 2025 Update:

World TESOL Academy must also be added to this Worst TEFL Courses 2026 list:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/world-tesol-academy/

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ITTT review, submitted by Chania.

The ITTT International TEFL TESOL Training Teaching English as a Foreign Language course online has been an eye-opener for me because before taking this course I’d only ever volunteered to teach English, without any formal qualifications. So this is one of the main reasons why I questioned myself whether I was up to taking an intensive 4-week course online. In the end, as most things do, it turned out to be much easier and much more doable than I’d first anticipated. The course just took a week to complete, without the tutor’s support which I was advised not to purchase, and eventually, I breezed through the course, and I know that the TEFL certificate hung on my bedroom wall will come in handy one day. I shall probably be looking to teach overseas next year when my final year of college is over, and then I’ll be emailing ITTT to see whether they have any job openings in the places where I’m interested in teaching. Overall it has been a very positive experience and I shall pass the word on to others who might not even know that it’s possible to earn a living by teaching English.

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