Back to episode — Episode 389 Scott Adams - The Future of Online Education with VR, Apps and Hollywood Teams
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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…
← Previous segment →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 pick a style of learning that worked for you and you could build the addiction into it so you could do it slowly, quickly, any rate that was right for you because it's online and they build the addiction into it? So let's say you're trying to solve a game by learning enough Spanish language, say, to solve some puzzles. You would probably learn them quicker if you were getting immediate rewards within the game context.
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All right, I also have a VR system that I've been testing to see what is the experience of using VR. And what I found was, oh my god, when you're using VR you actually have the experience of being there in person even though it's obvious that you're not there in person. So you can look at things that are really just renderings and you know they're renderings, you know they're not real, but it's so…
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