Online ed/edtech Vs Campus experience - a student's perspective.

My seat at the table - Just completed First Sem doing PG in Sports Psychology, full classroom and campus experience. 18 yrs in Startups, worked in Ed (+Tech) for 7+ years.

Education - NITC ('03), Candidate  PG Sports Psychology ('25)

"Education is not watching a video, or listening to a podcast. It is practicing something until it becomes muscle memory. "

1. Edtech is designed by 99 percentilers for 40-95 percentile crowd. Learning without motivation, accountability and competitive peer pressure and co-operation may work for them, but not for the masses. That's why most of the self learning courses completion rate is 5-10%. In live instructor mode with follow ups etc, around 35%. And this is just consuming the content. Practice and effectiveness - who knows?

2. The only IP created in edtech is Sales manuals. Whereas, the effort teachers take in campus and classroom is entirely different. I am back to college after 20 years and big change is experiential learning and interactions in the class. 

3. Might be old school, but I do believe that memory and recall of what we learn will always be the edge, esp when it comes to connecting the dots, which is basically your experience. Edtech doesn't really test that. 

4. Social Skills: Humans will always be the most complex variables of solving any problem. You may have slack, or discord, or whatsapp group or google classroom, the interactions you dwell in, relationships you form in campus will always be richer. 

Will add more if anything comes to mind. 

Also AMA 😀