“It’s also worth remembering that in some places in the world your online certificate will actually be enough to get you work. These tend to be places where there is a huge demand for teachers, and where any Tefl qualification (irrespective of the format) is preferable to no training at all”

It’s also worth rembering that 94.7%* of those schools will also accept you with no TEFL training at all, and those are exactly the kinds of schools you should try to avoid.

Original claims from here.

Although Cactus TEFL has long been a target of a certain paper-based TEFL publication, I’ve always thought the fact that they mainly sell CELTA and Trinity CertTESOL and that you can compare different courses on one page is a good thing. So, why have they suddenly switched to selling online courses instead. Cash perhaps?

What you most need to know about online courses is that once they are set up they cost nothing to run. Zero. I don’t think that is what they wanted to say, but that is what came out of my interview with Global TESOL when I said “What about your training staff?” and they said something like “You don’t understand. This is online, we don’t need any staff.” In fact in an email they accused me of not doing my homework by even asking such a question. Therefore, once any online TEFL course company has made back its initial investment, every penny they are sent is profit for them and agents like Cactus TEFL.

* Actually I’ve no idea what the percentage is, but is seems you have to have decimal point to be taken seriously in TEFL nowadays (see a couple of posts below)