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So what I'm going to talk about is how to get to a world where we all have free, far better — way better — training at a cost that's essentially free or approaches free. And I'm going to tell you some trends that you're going to see coming that will drive this.
← Previous segment →The first thing I'm going to talk about is my own company's app called Interface by WhenHub. You see it written right here if you wanted to search for it in the app stores. With it you can talk to any kind of expert and you could take a class. So if you could find an expert who wanted to train you one-on-one or two-to-you, etc., you could do it through the app.
I wanted to test online learning myself, so I've been taking drum lessons for the last few months trying to figure out what I could learn about the whole concept of online learning. Can you learn from talking to somebody on the screen? Here's what I learned: it works really, really well. And here's why.
Because I'm paying for it by the hour, and because I can pick the instructor I want, and I can schedule it whenever I want, and I can cancel it — you know, as long as I give some notice — I can cancel it if something comes up. I've completely solved the "when do you do it" problem by making it happen when I want it.
Secondly, because it's a one-on-one thing, I don't follow the script of an instructor. I found a drum instructor who would answer my questions and go through things in roughly the order that my brain needs to process it. So I took something that would have been impossible for me to learn in a standard setup. The instructor shows up at your house and you've got somebody in your house and it takes a little extra time, there's a lot of extra work, and you can't really cancel because they're traveling over there. And then they don't teach you the way you want. So being able to get it exactly the way you want is huge. And so I've had a good experience with that.
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But let me tell you some other things which are happening in the world of online training. One of the things that's wrong with online training the way it is at the moment is that it's usually just filming an instructor teaching just as if you were in the class. That's the worst way to use online training because you don't get the benefit of the human interaction and it's just as boring. But inevi…
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