I also have enjoyed and I do appreciate the opportunity of taking these free courses. The one "big" thing I would recommend is if you recommend that you have a Platinum Edition of Logos to take the course please limit your recommended reading to what is included in Platinum. I understand the marketing angle here , but the majority of the time when I clicked on those links it tells me that that resource is not included in my library. I did upgrade from a Bronze to a Platinum so the free course did bring new business to you and now I follow many of those teacher's blog sites and watch them daily.
- While this is going to be a greater challenge again now that the bar has moved for Platinum in Logos 7, it is quite understandable that with the wide variety of courses and course scope offered today in Mobile Ed, and with even more variety in production and on Pre-pub, it is not really practical to limit all suggestions to a Standard Platinum Base Package, although I affirm Joe's apparent intent in asking that the Platinum package as the recommended package, should provide the majority of, or at the very least a substantial, interesting and sufficient amount of additional material so as not to frustrate those taking the course. In addition, suggested readings that are NOT included in the Platinum package should be offered as a bundle at a substantial discount off regular prices (as they already are for some "groups" of courses leading to certificates.)
- It might be an idea to just include the needed books with each course bought.
- Wow. I was feeling bad that I had little to no resources available because I have the Silver package-- I understand how disappointed I would be if I had Platinum and still didn't have the recommended resources. I would like to make a recommendation that there be a recommended resource for each of the packages. To keep the current 'up-sell" strategy alive, you could still show what was locked to encourage people to buy more, but it would be very nice for everyone to have access to something. Also, remember that there are probably more little people like me who own smaller libraries who may have subscribed to LogosNow for the free MobileEd classes. I would think that is a market you would want to encourage such that you would include resources from all of the packages so everyone has some relevant articles to read and they can feel good about the package they purchased. I also like John English's idea that you just include the relevant books with the course-- maybe for a limited time if the user is just taking the Logos Now free course.