Markus Rach

TikTok for educators and educational brands! Markus Rach

This book is a resource for educators and educational brands on how to navigate and master the rising star on the social media horizon: TikTok. It details why you should be on the TikTok platform and guides you from the account creation process to your very first TikTok upload. This book is written by a university lecturer, researcher and experiential marketer. It seeks to highlight, why modern educators need to look at student engagement through the lens of a marketer. This book showcases how students' attention is cumulating on this new platform, which is secretly seeking to democratize education. Although this secret has been viewed over 80 billion times in just few months, it is currently regionally focused on India only (March 2020). Nevertheless, some universities and educators have already joined the platform to get a head start in the race for students' attention. This book will open your eyes and detail how the latest generation conflict is likely to impact modern education. It will show you why the biggest names in Hollywood are no competition for a 15-year-old TikTok creator; at least not in the race for attention. It will confront you with a new truth! The truth of attention arbitrage in education. The truth, that EduTok math videos have millions of views. Who would have ever thought! You will be presented with examples and best practice methods, all based on the author's very own TikTok experiment. In January 2020, the author set out to grow an account from 0 views, 0 followers and 0 content to over 30 million views and 50K followers in just a few weeks. All for free. This book is for you, if you seek to expand your classroom to the world of short-video platforms. Likewise, if you aim to acquire new students, or look to become the coolest educator on the planet.