Cohort Based Courses
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes
Founder's Journal 
Lenny's Podcast 
the Startup Ideas Podcast
5 statements about Cohort Based Courses, every show
Clouse: Cohort-based courses should precede self-paced ones
“Before you do like a self-paced course, you should do a cohort based version of it because the price is higher. You get much better feedback. You can triage issues that come up. So you get better student outcomes earlier on.”
Lieberman: Pre-recorded courses will remain the dominant online education format
“And so I think asynchronous education or prerecorded courses are not going away and they'll actually continue to be the most common way that people learn online.”
Lieberman: Cohort-based courses will see declining interest in 2023
“And so I just think cohort based courses, we're going to hear a lot less talk about them in 2023.”
Kao: Cohort-based courses are the future of education
“We both really believe that core based courses are the future that we're going to want to teach these courses, but it's just too hard from a technical perspective now, but it doesn't have to be that way.”
Kao: Cohort-based courses force instructor rigor through real-time student scrutiny
“But in a core-based course where your students are right there with you, where they can ask questions when they can have conversation in the zoom chat box. Like if you're saying something that doesn't really make sense, there could be a whole conversation happ…”