Online Education
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13 statements about Online Education, every show
Cowen: Online education is one of humanity's greatest achievements
“Online education, as we have it, is one of the world's greatest achievements ever, and we've put almost all of it in place in, say, 15 years.”
Ellwood: College is unnecessary if you know your career goal
“Like right now, there's no reason to go if you know what you want to be when you graduate. Because all of it is online for free and you can just start being the thing like quickly, but the accountability to actually do it is the reason people don't.”
Lieberman: Online courses focused on making money always sell better
“The second thought around online education is that courses whose focus is around making you money, they will always sell better. Justin was smart to make his course not just about building an audience on LinkedIn, but also about monetizing that audience becaus…”
Screwvala: Online education matches offline colleges on measurable academic outcomes
“If I'm competing in terms of final outcome, report card being outcome, absolutely. Absolutely.”
Online Education Captures Higher-Intent Students Than Offline Engineering Colleges
“Because when you're teaching in an engineering college, when you're teaching offline, there are many students who are actually not interested. But when you're teaching online, those who search something, they only come to your platform. Those who are seriously…”
Gil: Online language immersion is permanently here to stay post-pandemic
“First of all, the online immersion is here to stay. I have no doubt. It's something that also had been in their minds, but if there's one thing this pandemic has accelerated and it has opened the doors toward is online education. I think people are definitely …”
Lakhamraju: Physical schools will not go fully online anytime soon
“I don't think schools are going away and I don't think schools are going online anytime soon.”
Stewart: Online education will drive CockroachDB adoption into mission-critical apps
“We believe that online education really is the future way that we're going to get CockroachDB into more mission critical applications.”
Poddar: Online education will be perceived as superior to offline learning
“I would argue over time, people should think about a tech as even better than the offline education that they were getting. Because of because of democratization of content from the supply side, because you can get the best suppliers or best supply of content …”
Founders must separate core user problems from temporary delivery mechanisms
“If you think of online education as the problem, then you'll never move away from online if the world has moved away. You will be still stuck on it without, and you would have forgotten the problem you're solving is that of personalized education, which can be…”
Allred: Only 50% of people who bought his $100 book downloaded it
“50% of the people that bought the book ever downloaded it, even.”
Cowen: Online education is one of history's greatest achievements
“Online education, as we have it, is one of the world's greatest achievements ever, and we've put almost all of it in place in, say, 15 years.”
Wincek: Online Education Should Return to Direct Master-to-Apprentice Learning
“I think a lot of early attempts at online education are taking, you know, universities and schools and academia and putting them online. But really the beauty of the internet is that we can actually go back to first principles and think about how does learning…”