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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International Open Academy review, written by Bryan Rosete.

Since my course is related to teaching English, I was looking for an online course where I could take my TESOL course for future reference and use. I find it useful since during this time of the pandemic COVID-19, it is difficult to find a job. But if you have the certification course, it would be much easier for you to find a job that is timely during this time, which is an online tutorial. Since it is one of their requirements, I immediately searched for where I could take the course. I found out that TESOL/TEFL-a 120 Certification Course offers this and they are under International Open Academy. So I decided to take the course. After I enrolled, I started with my modules. It was fun learning and it is very much convenient because you can study according to your own free time since it is self-paced. Exams after each module are given and it is easy if you have really understood the lessons for each module. After taking the course, I received my certificate which I could use for my application. I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to TESOL/TEFL and IOA for this opportunity to learn about TESOL. It will be useful for my future career as an English instructor. I would surely recommend you guys take your course now. Since most companies abroad are looking for online English instructors, it is recommended that you take the TESOL/TEFL course. Learning is fun and convenient because you study on your own and you can seek help from them and they are easily accessible. If you couldn’t understand or have questions while you are studying with your module, you could easily ask for help from them and they could respond to you as soon as they could. I would highly recommend this for your own good and convenience. Thank you very much IOA.

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Groupon TEFL course International Open Academy review, written by Terence.

I decided to do the TEFL certificate course (online version) after reading a travel and work article about how it is possible to teach English to fund travel. I can’t remember where I saw this article but it is probably quite easy to find if you search for teach and travel on google. I never thought this could be a possibility so when I heard about it I jumped at the chance. The article recommended I take the TEFL with International Open Academy so I went with their advice and purchased the course through Groupon. It only cost $5!!! I have never done anything like this before but I found it to be straightforward and easy to navigate. I worked for a whole day on it. I started the course at 7 am and had all of it completed by 4 pm. I must write that even though it only took me 7 or 8 hours to complete, I learned so much about teaching. I want to teach in Europe but because of the international covid situation, I won’t be able to do that for the time being. That’s a real shame because I am pretty much all packed and ready to go. I am hoping that the travel restrictions stop soon and then I will be off to Europe to teach and travel. Just like what the article described! I recommend anyone thinking about traveling and earning money to take the TEFL.

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TEFL Fullcircle review, submitted by Kathy.

TEFL Full Circle was a deflating experience – largely because it is a very disorganized teacher training program. Why did I choose this company? They have an excellent website and most of the questions which I needed to answer were right there on their site. I then did a bit of digging around online and saw quite a few favorable reviews, so I made the decision to go with them for my TEFL training online.

I had a few problems paying for the course, but that was probably because I was paying for the course when abroad so my bank kept canceling the transaction. When the payment did go through I was able to begin right away. So far so good. The only problem was that the course interface was completely different from the TEFL Full Circle website. They really, really need to update it because it’s very cumbersome and I also counted quite a few spelling and grammar mistakes. This isn’t something I would expect from a company training people to teach English! The subject matter was good though, and this is the reason for this 2-star review. If the organization was better, and if the website study interface worked better, I would be giving 4, or even 5 stars.

There were also some issues with submitting work. Twice, I spent time completing an assignment, only to receive a message later that both hadn’t been received and that I must submit them again. Of course, I hadn’t saved my work because I didn’t think I needed to, so it was back on the drawing board again. Twice this happened to me. It was very, very frustrating!

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