1. Sort out your software: install Skype and set up a user account.

2. Sort out your hardware: obviously a computer of some sort with a webcam. Ideally, get a decent headset as well, because this will help reduce any background noise, such as the sound of your typing and background chatter if you want to teach from a coffee shop.

3. Check your Internet speed.

4. Create a PayPal account if you haven’t got one already.
5. Decide what you are going to teach.

6. Create a Facebook page for your online teaching business.

7. Find Facebook pages related to your niche.

8. Contribute to these Facebook pages and groups.
9. Create a Facebook advert for your teaching service. Facebook adverts can be directed to highly targeted markets using people’s interests (another reason why you should teach a niche.

Duke University Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is teaching the online course 'Think Again: How to Reason and Argue' on the Coursera platform, beginning Nov. 26, 2012. It is his first time teaching an entirely online course to a wide audience, so he has been adapting his approach to teaching the course. In this video, he explains the steps it takes to develop an online course.