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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 24

      Here's a real-world example: A code bootcamp that charges $10k/student recorded *the entire code bootcamp* and put it online, self-paced for $3k/student. 50 people signed up and paid $3k. *One* person made it past the first 45 min lesson. He quit after lesson 3.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 24
      Replying to @AustenAllred

      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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      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 24
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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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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 24
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          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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        3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 24
          Replying to @patio11

          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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        4. Dan Naumov‏ @dnaumov Mar 25
          Replying to @AustenAllred @patio11

          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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        5. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 25
          Replying to @dnaumov @patio11

          Yup. Normal channels, mostly content marketing. I don’t think it’s abnormal for any informational product.

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          How much of this do you think is social acceptability? "I can't go to dinner with you/do the laundry, I've got to work on this MOOC" is a lot less compelling to other people than "I've got to do this homework for the real-life class I'm enrolled in" for some reason.

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        1. Abhijit Sharma‏ @abhijitysharma Mar 24
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          No accountability -> No discipline -> No completion.

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