Back to episode — Episode 389 Scott Adams - The Future of Online Education with VR, Apps and Hollywood Teams
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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 my…
← Previous segment →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 inevitably people are going to start forming teams. Instead of just filming an instructor, maybe somebody creates the content, perhaps someone else does the visuals, the CGI, the graphics that go with it. Perhaps they hire an actor to be the teacher because the actor is just really good on screen, somebody you don't mind watching for a long time. You might prefer seeing a female, I might prefer seeing a male. You might prefer seeing somebody a different age, different ethnicity. You could pick the type of instructor you wanted and the content would be created by a team like Hollywood.
Can you imagine, for example, if movies were made by one person? Suppose the only way a movie ever got made was one person. There would all be terrible movies. It's because of the team. And certainly education will move in this direction. Inevitably it's a guarantee.
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The other thing you don't have in regular education is the addiction technology. You know that social media is addicting. You know that online gaming is addictive. Part of the reason they're addictive is that you do them on your own pace and your own time and then they reward you with a variety of rewards which we understand very well. What if you could learn at any rate you wanted and you could…
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