#1736 - Q&A: “I’d like to create a cohort-based course like B-School”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 2 October 2021
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of structuring a course where students go through it at the same time—both for the students and the course creator?
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| 0:35.2 | Online courses have come a long, long way. The quality, the depth, the breadth of the |
| 0:40.2 | information that's available these days, it's just incredible. You can learn so much, |
| 0:44.9 | not just learn, but also retain the information. That's always a big problem and online courses have |
| 0:49.8 | really started to address that, retain the information, apply it in different ways. One of the |
| 0:55.6 | more popular practices that we're seeing these days is a cohort-based course. A cohort is just a |
| 1:01.7 | course that only opens a couple of times a year, or whatever the frequency is, the point is everyone |
| 1:06.8 | taking the course goes through it at the same time as opposed to just an on-demand course that you |
| 1:12.0 | can register for and take it your own pace. Thus the term cohort-based. Today's color is wondering, |
| 1:18.7 | what are the advantages and disadvantages of structuring a course this way? Both for the students |
| 1:23.4 | and the course creator. I think it's important to think about both groups. You want to think about |
| 1:27.8 | the students, the learners, how can you make the best possible course for them, but also if you're |
| 1:32.4 | the course creator, you need to think about the advantages and disadvantages for yourself. |
| 1:36.8 | That's what today's color wants to know. They actually want to create a cohort-based course |
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