Back to episode — Episode 389 Scott Adams - The Future of Online Education with VR, Apps and Hollywood Teams
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All right, so as soon as this stuff reaches another level, the learning will be fun and easy. Smartphones of course make everybody have access to it. So the "how much does it cost" part and "how do you get there" will largely be solved by technology. The other advantage you have of online learning is that you can sample it very quickly and if you're not getting what you want you just stop and fin…
← Previous segment →I think we'll see certification degrees for online classes that are different from just, "Oh this college put some classes on there and now you got a degree from this college but it's not as good as the real one." I think you're going to see people like Warren Buffett — I just use him as an example name — to say if you took this following group of classes and you did well in it I would definitely hire you.
Somebody's saying Udacity does it. I think what you need are almost celebrity endorsements to give them some value. And when I say celebrity I mean successful business people, billionaire-type endorsements, the kind that people would take seriously. You know, if Bill Gates said taking this set of courses made you valuable I would certainly think about getting the Bill Gates MBA or whatever it's going to be called.
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All right, so with these changes which I think you would agree are pretty much guaranteed to happen — I don't know how quickly, I don't know how long it will take — but if you imagine that the government, without building a new department or anything, simply got behind this concept and just started pushing, maybe putting a little attention on VR companies, maybe encouraging some kind of standardiz…
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