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I created a website 2 years ago; it's a non profit educational website, it's mostly like udemy but a tiny version. It's all free because where I come from they're really a low income community so I want to benefit them with what knowledge I have. I have uploaded many courses (only relevant to my field and area of expertise) and it has an exam; if you pass it you get a certificate of completion and it has a signature of my area of expertise syndicate to accredit it. I also used to do seminars on weekly basis and I have many many students who reviewed my course and put 5 stars on it and attended my seminars.

For some reasons I stopped and now I will apply to a master's degree in 10 months.. The unfortunate thing: where I come from there are no undergraduate research opportunities and I'm really afraid I won't get accepted due to lack of experience. However, I decided to do review articles to boost my abilities but the question is:

Should I really make a little bit of time and invest it to make my website grow and keep on doing this, because it positively influences and helps me in my application to add a bonus or make my CV look decent, or is it useless and a waste of money and time and should I leave it? I'm not even sure if this counts as teaching experience.

My field is pharmacy and my country is Canada.

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    Hosting an educational web site may help you if you want to attend graduate school in education. But likely will not help for graduate admission in other subjects.
    – GEdgar
    Commented Mar 19, 2021 at 23:44
  • @GEdgar, you might develop that into an answer.
    – Buffy
    Commented Apr 9, 2021 at 14:26

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First, I am neither Canadian nor a pharmacist, so take my advice for what it's worth.

From what I can tell, you website / seminar series is already well developed, has been used by many students, and is quite popular. I will not speculate what weight this will carry toward graduate admissions. But whatever this weight is, I suspect it will not change much if you put additional time/effort into further development. You already get credit for "having built an impressive educational website", so there is not much room for improvement in this area.

On the other hand, I would hesitate to say that any further work would be "a waste of money and time." It sounds like you are providing a great service to the community, learning a lot, and perhaps even having fun. It is unusual for "outreach" initiatives to be this successful, so I would not discourage you from continuing if you were inclined to do so.

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