Are there enough people who want to actually learn (vs get a certificate) to make this a viable business? If there’s even a small market, and it catches on, it might eventually eat the university system’s whole lunch.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/954490390823960576 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Texts have been relatively freely available for a few centuries now, but self-study remains rare. Most people seem to need an external framework to pull them through a course of study. (Though it could be that self-studiers produce most value!)
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Tutor + small group of motivated students was the actual university model until mid-20th C, and I suspect it’s by far the best. I agree few people can learn on their own.
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Apprenticeship is probably the most effective way to learn, but usually you can only take on a dozen students max. That doesn’t work economically if you have to pay a bunch of administrators… but could if you don’t.
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Administrators have coevolved with legal/regulatory regimes that justify their existence. Could be tricky to cure that class of pathogens.
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It seems that the development of parallel “gray markets” is the only likely way to deal with cost disease. Cf the market for no-insurance doctors. The danger is that entrenched interests successfully lobby to have them banned.
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