This review is for the TEFL Masters' 120-Hour TEFL Course for $49.
My first impression when I looked at their website was that it was professional, no spelling mistakes, lots of vibrant images and a lot of information about teaching English, so a very good start.
Paying was easy, as you get directed to the checkout. It was a slight annoyance having to enter my account details to enroll on their learning management system off site, but they promised a smooth learning experience, so who am I to argue with that?
The course content was excellent. I say that having learned online before. Now, could they up their game with interactive videos rather than teacher-talk ones? Absolutely, but I imagine this would place the course price beyond where I'd be willing to pay. The text content is mirrored by the teacher-talking-head and it's super-thorough to the point where you have review questions with the text you're reading, then a separate review quiz and a unit quiz, which is the one that gets recorded.
The units they cover are many, including cultural differences, classroom management, past teaching approaches, lesson planning, receptive skills, productive skills, assessment and feedback plus online teaching and others: this seemed like it covered everything I saw in the training videos of real teachers and gave me a lot to think about.
For every unit, there are different scenario learning activities after the practice quizzes. These started off a little easier but then moved onto full lesson scenarios and got a bit more challenging. The best thing about these was the immediate feedback. So, even though the course is sefl-paced and automated, there's still feedback, which is more than my past university online courses tended to provide, though essays for those did give feedback.
I'm happy to promote this course and wish they had an affiliate system. In short, my experience was easily 5 stars and the TEFL course has given me far more than I had imagined my money would get me. This is an easy recommendation for anyone looking for a legitimate learning experience on how to teach English without training in the flesh.