Most universities, surprisingly, have no way to measure their effectiveness, and most don’t try. If you can’t measure effectiveness you can’t fail.
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3. Many academics believe you can’t learn online. Not that you can only learn a subset of things or that the learning is worse because it misses x y and z if not in person. They literally don’t believe it’s possible to have an effective online education.
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4. Apparently I can’t spell or number things correctly
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5. We accept students from all sorts of backgrounds, including socioeconomic, educational, etc. Our top performers? The poorest students with no college education. Hypothesis? They have no other options
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6. Everyone knows too many people attending universities don’t consider the financial burden, but NO ONE thinks about the time. Four years is a LONG time, but it doesn’t enter into peoples’ thinking generally when deciding if they should get a degree
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7. We had one student on the edge of homelessness, was $400 short on bills and almost had to quit because of that. I personally loaned him the money, and his income moved from $10/hr to $70k+/yr. It only took $400, but he didn’t have anywhere to get that from. Insane.
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8. Psychology matters much, much more than people think, and varies wildly based on socioeconomic background. People that don’t know many people that are middle class literally don’t understand what’s possible, and are unable to take the corresponding risks as a result of that.
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9. 99% of people, when left long blocks of time alone to work on something without anyone to be accountable to, will watch Netflix.
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10. Nearly everyone recognizes that MOOCs are by and large a failure with ~2% completion rates, but they make us feel good because now it’s the students’ fault not they’re not learning, not the school’s
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Replying to @AustenAllred
What % of people who start your program finish in a reasonable (curious for your definition) amount of time? Helped build minerva and agree w a lot of your tweets but research on online only persistence rates for low income students is not good
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Almost everyone. The reason the rates have been so bad is that people take a bunch of their old content, put it in a self-paced LMS and then say “let’s see how completion rates are.” Of course they’re bad that way.
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Replying to @AustenAllred
Agree entirely w failed pedagogy of MOOCs. Active learning will transform online ed (minerva is synchronized active online learning). V curious how it works without an IRL social connection between students. Rooting for you,just skeptical of grad rate at scale
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Replying to @willhoughteling
It’s just not an issue. Our grad rate is better than paid-up-front, in-person schools
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