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Toying with the idea of a stream-course. Structured like an online course with newer lessons dependent on older lessons, but with indefinitely extended structure like a salon/seminar series/YouTube channel. Individual lessons would have pre-reqs. An evolving DAG basically.
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Effectively, this would model the “major” abstraction but dissolve the “course” abstraction. You’d have courses unbundled into lessons and living as first class citizens in the stream-course or major. To understand a lesson you’d need to backtrack through the specific DAG subtree
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Does this sound interesting? You’d access via monthly subscription fee that would increase modestly as the content accumulated via a formula that discounts access value of older modules and saturates at a lifetime max cost. Say $5/mo increasing over years to $10/mo
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This feels like the best structure for some of my favorite topics that I might like to coursify like visual thinking, breaking smart, office politics/slightly evil, temporality. Room for both improv and building, steering flexibly while growing.
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It’s an unbundled-middle format. I feel the scoping theme of a “major” adds value, and the “lecture” unit is still the best atomic module. But the “course” level of structure really adds no value at all. Cc: and other online course people.
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I have to investigate whether teachable allows for hop on/hop off pricing. Or pausing billing. That would be nice+fair if instructor goes too long without adding new content modules.
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I think what you're describing is a paywalled blog. Biggest feature of a course is completion, so by removing the finish line you're asking ppl to make an open-ended commitment. Most common question I get: how long does it take? (not "what's the value?")
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