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Yeah, but if you look at the numbers, it isn't any good as a side-hustle, either. The vast majority of courses don't make enough money for the effort invested t
by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, but if you look at the numbers, it isn't any good as a side-hustle, either. The vast majority of courses don't make enough money for the effort invested to even qualify as break-even.
I think online courses are a challenge. I've taken a number of them, and for them to work you have to get many, many things right, because you don't have the opportunities for course-correction that exist in an in-person class.
- ghaff 2y ago>I think online courses are a challenge. The professors who do EdX (or whatever) versions of their big lecture classes--which they've done a million times--can be pretty good and they don't get a lot of real-time feedback there either. But that is the exception, of course.
- michaelt 2y agoI always assumed those classes don't need to make the professors any money, as the professors earn a salary, and they're more about broadening access and performing the school's charitable goal of educating lots of students, secure in the knowledge that even a thousand hours of free online Harvard lectures can't replace a Harvard degree, so the tuition money will keep pouring in.
- ghaff 2y agoSure. My sense is that the Unis have somewhat fallen out of love with MOOCs (as have students as they realize that they're not getting the certification value they have hoped for).