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31 May 2023 Conversations with Tyler Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear

“I think online education, while it’s pluralistic in the sense that we can get to more people, is a pale shadow of what online learning could be, and my hope is that AI could help with that.”

— Seth Godin

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Seth Godin
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31 May 2023
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Conversations with Tyler

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…You’ve been very active in online education. What is the biggest problem with scaling the education itself? Oh, this one is really worth diving into because you’re a teacher too. There’s a huge difference between learning and education. Education is compliance-based, top-down authority, certificate-granting. It is checking the boxes and proving that you have this thing that used to be scarce is yours now. Learning is all autodidactic. Learning is, did you change by doing a thing? When online showed up, we had the chance to create online learning, and yet, almost all the money and almost all the time went into online education, and that’s heartbreaking to me. I think online education, while it’s pluralistic in the sense that we can get to more people, is a pale shadow of what online learning could be, and my hope is that AI could help with that. What, concretely, do we need to change to make that happen?…

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