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This is the big problem in edtech. If you want to gain tons of users in edtech then you just need to make a bunch of very basic type materials which allows user
by newguy1234 7y ago
This is the big problem in edtech. If you want to gain tons of users in edtech then you just need to make a bunch of very basic type materials which allows users to not get frustrated (and leave) and allows the platform to create lots of easy to develop content. For anyone serious about edtech, this is a problem because only having a basic understanding of a subject is pretty much useless. At a certain point, you need high-quality (college-level equivalent) type content. For edtech companies, that content is both harder to make and thus more expensive. At the same time, the userbase interested in that level of material declines rapidly.
- Roritharr 7y agoThis is interesting, looking from the outside I've always assumed that edtech had the problem of their content becoming less valuable too fast and figured they should invest more in better presentation and delivery of user-generated/curated content than on content itself.
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoI concur. I'd phrase like this... at some point you transition from offering the course highlights to simply offering the course. And the highlights seeker is probably a different customer to the more ambitious student.