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What Nobody Says About Online Courses (Are They Learning Ways?)
Learning is far beyond sharing information—a declaration of love for learning
What’s learning? It’s the transformative journey of our worldview.
Imagine traveling around the world through Google Earth. Add magic so that in addition to images, you can listen to sounds and talk—always remotely—with people. Complete the picture by never moving from your living room with the laptop on your lap.
After this experience, would you tell a friend how traveling the world changed you?
No, you have only watched an interactive movie.
Let’s think of the same question about online courses. After following one or a thousand online courses, would you say that you have learned a subject in the sense that you have transformed how you look at the world?
No, you have only some more information in your toolkit – which is valuable but not learning.
Humans change through experience
The transformation of human beings goes through a momentary and necessary loss of control.
When you jump to overcome a ditch, you have control of your movement until the moment of the jump. Then, having leaped…
