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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TEFL Fullcircle review, submitted by Robbie.

TEFL Fullcircle gets a bad rap online. I experienced the opposite.

If you want a course equivalent to the CELTA or Level 5, this course isn’t for you.

If you want a standard TEFL course to check the boxes for most TEFL employment options, this course is one I can recommend.

I’ve been using the certificate for my online teaching jobs since May and it’s served its purpose so far.

My plan is only to teach until the end of the year so why should I shell out $$$$ on a CELTA course? Made no sense to me.

The course interface is basic but easy to navigate. It took me a couple of days to finish it. So for me, it was a quick and painless way to get the TEFL certification and quickly start applying for online teaching jobs.

I haven’t worked out whether it is accredited. The theme hasn’t been brought up so far at any of my job interviews.

The 5-star rating I’ve added to this review represents my own experience of the TEFL Fullcircle course and the subsequent benefits of taking this course.

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World TESOL Academy review, submitted by Isabelle.

It wasn’t what I expected. I saw the World Tesol Academy course offer on Facebook and decided to give it a go, based on the low price and the positive reviews I read on trustpilot.com. In the adverts they show someone who is supposed to have taken one of their courses, proudly showing off her World Tesol Academy certificate. I want to make it clear to anyone considering the course that this won’t be the certificate you receive. The one I received didn’t look half as good and was without the seal that the one shown in the Facebook ads has. It’s a classic bait-and-switch scam. The course is worth the $34 World Tesol Academy charges. The course content is poor, there were errors in the information presented, and there is never anyone around when you have a question or need help. The course hardly taught me anything at all and I would feel unprepared for a job interview. Bearing all this in mind, I would recommend giving World Tesol Academy a wide miss. I won’t be recommending them to anyone.

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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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Cheap TEFL Course International Open Academy review, written by Samantha.

This online TEFL course was on promotion on Groupon, and the heavy discount was seriously enticing. Only $19 for a distance learning TEFL course! What did I have to lose? I grabbed the deal!

It was when I opened the first module that I knew that there was a reason why the course was only $19.

Each of the modules contain about a page of text, followed by quiz questions that were an insult to my intelligence. They were just ridiculous.

Still, I soldiered on and completed the course in 2 days. If you do decide to pay the $19 for this course, just skim the reading and take the quizzes. There really isn’t much value anyway in the texts.

I then printed out the certificate, which looked like a template you would find if you Googled a TEFL certificate template. It just didn’t look believable at all.

I again soldiered on and started the process of job hunting.

I began a conversation with a school based in Chengdu, China, which was looking for a native speaker from the US or Canada, to teach in an international school – teaching kindergarten kids and teenagers.

The pay was very good and there were other perks, such as free airfare, subsidized accommodation, an end-of-year bonus, and so on.

A college degree and international TEFL certificate, as well as a clean criminal background, were the main requirements for the job. Tick, tick, tick! I forwarded copies of the documents to the school.

And, my application was rejected. All on the basis that my International Open Academy TEFL certificate wasn’t accepted. I asked why. The school replied that it’s not on the official list of recognized TEFL programs.

So, I asked for the list. The school obliged and I couldn’t see International Open Academy (IOA) anywhere on that list.

What could I do? I had to write off the $19 I’d spent on the cheap TEFL course with IOA and chose a different school, from the official list.

I chose https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/ because they have won awards and have very good student reviews.

I took the course with Tefl Online Pro, it was obviously a much more in-depth course, and it took me 2 weeks to complete. I worked on it 6 days a week.

I then went through the process of resubmitting my documents to the school.

And, I got accepted!

The one big take from this whole experience is not to be fooled by a really cheap TEFL course.

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TEFL Fullcircle review, submitted by Christian.

I was initially attracted to the Tefl Full Circle program because of the school website, which is designed well and isn’t as cluttered as some other offers I saw during my research. The course that I took was online. It helped me to review some of the basics that I had forgotten in high school and taught me a lot about teaching, which is something I have never done before. The instruction was very intuitive. I had no problem getting onto the website and logging in and out. Thanks a lot, Tefl Full Circle for this opportunity!

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Learn TEFL review, submitted by Kelly.

It would have been much better having this course had been more user-friendly. Very dated platform and riddled with spelling mistakes. No real continuity of resources either as different parts of the course felt like they had been haphazardly put together for the sake of boosting the volume of course content. The online tutor assigned to my course could have been an automated reply robot for all I know as replies to my questions were prompt but disappointingly unhelpful. Purchased this course through Groupon and as a result paid under $50. Even at this reduced course price I still don’t feel I received anything close to value for money. I shall probably need to pay again for another TEFL course now as I learned very little with Learn TEFL.

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International Open Academy review, written by Kerry.

There was absolutely no feedback whatsoever during the course. Nada. No online tutor(but I understood this when I enrolled.) All emails sent went unanswered and good luck trying to get through to their mobile or landline number. This course is for those people for whom a desperately limited budget is their driving reason for wanting to take such a cheap(and in my view worthless) TEFL course. The only silver lining to the whole thing was receiving my certificate quite soon after finishing the course. But alas, when I opened up the envelope I discovered a sorry-looking certificate which looked like it had been designed by my nephew. Wish I had discovered trustedteflreviews.com before signing up with IOP.

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