Online courses, credentials, and degree programs in early childhood education have become a significant way to deliver teacher education and professional development. Online students have many choices and can access training and courses with few, if any, limitations of times and distance. Much has been written about how to design and deliver effective online courses and how to be an effective eTeacher, but less is known about what it is like to be an online student, and what experiences students value most. Administrators need to ask if the eLearning experiences they offer are based on accurate assumptions about what students want and need. In this article, the authors share some of their "lessons learned" from the real eLearning experts--the online students--to better understand the characteristics and elements of an effective online course for early childhood professionals. The authors identify a few of the lessons they learned from the students, and they explore the implications for early childhood eTeaching and eLearning.