The stats on viewership for (much shorter) courses that I've been involved with were also below my naive expectations, though might partly be because they were structured to support "Just skip to the X% relevant to your present needs."
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I’ve seen enough of them now that I consider the “well only learn what you need to” and “some people were just sampling” to be a cop out. It’s certainly true, but you can find people who are determined, and that cohort still has 2% completion. It’s shockingly bad for some reason.
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Yep. FWIW, substantially all of my friends who sell or are involved with infoproducts have directionally similar experiences. They've experimented with interesting things to boost actual student success, including "put a teacher in it", first-party coaching/CS, P2P ...
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Yup. I sell a book I wrote for $100 (!). Less than 50% of the people that purchase it ever even download it. We had to figure it out for Lambda School or we’d go broke. I’m 99% confident it’s a solved problem, but with no skin in the game + online class was difficult to solve
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Wait, wait. People buy a 100$ book and then don’t succeed in downloading it? And this is more than half of all sales? What is the sales channel?
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Yup. Normal channels, mostly content marketing. I don’t think it’s abnormal for any informational product.
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I actually think the lack of discipline in adults is due in some part to previous schooling. We pound the curiosity and desire to learn out of children. It's this whole concept that all you need is a diploma and your life will be set. It makes people comfortable and complacent
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How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one. But the lightbulb has to WANT to change.
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There has been no evidence of any purely digital (or crowd-based) system being able to ensure the discipline necessary for a student to understand, and complete something. This will need a human in the loop. A person to be accountable to. And a person to keep track of. To guide
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Now this human coach doesn't scale. And won't be cheap. Which is where the challenge lies.
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One variable that I have been considering is the lack of explicit practice routines in tech infoproducts, with much of tacit knowledge being how to learn to learn a topic:https://twitter.com/yvesmuyabenda/status/976153277334245376 …
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Here is what an explicit practice routine looks like when spelled out, a graphic by
@chriscookejazz http://learnjazzfaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/designing-your-practice-plan.png …, who addresses the problem that jazz improvisors have a tonne of information they need to learn how to fluidly apply in context in the moment. -
When I am talking about learning how to learn and tacit knowledge, I am talking about really simple things that even experienced tech folk have responded to, simply things like a process of how to read code:https://twitter.com/yvesmuyabenda/status/976949866617327618 …
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Learning isn’t only about the content medium, also about presenting content to sustain motivation & endurance via training & practice. Needs time, space & an environment for the learning activities.
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I was taking the time and space and environment as given, as well as determination, and motivation; and focusing more on how an individual proceses the content to turn it into long-lasting skill.
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The tech industry mainly gives information dumps, or walks someone through some activity; but for me the bottleneck is that many do not gain the kind of indepedent study skills required from school, unless they learnt of practice routines in learning, say, a musical instrument.
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I say this as someone who had to unlearn the many bad-habits the emphasis on rote memorization in schools has; eventhough my dominant learning style has always been what might be "independent investigator/experimenter".
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Online courses miss a fixed “when” parameter so they get postponed forever. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation_intention …
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