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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…
← Previous segment →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 standardization if that's useful.
It would be great to have all of these courses built in small modules so that you could take a module and if you don't like that teacher you can just pick up the same course just with a different teacher and without even getting out of the larger class you can just switch teachers in the middle because all the modules fit together in some kind of standardized way depending on the course.
So I think we're going to get to the point where online learning is no longer worse than in-person learning. But I think it's guaranteed it's going to cross it. Guaranteed. And when it crosses it, it might also start approaching zero cost. Because whoever is the best team to put together — let's say the very best lesson in geometry or whatever it is, or let's say repairing engines — whoever is the best team that does that, they're going to be able to sell their course all over the entire world.
So it might be a dollar per class because they have a hundred billion customers per class. It would be the most profitable thing anybody ever did. But this market needs to develop and it will.
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