Deep Future College Experience Alternatives – ØF
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Jul 15, 2024 Two nerds discuss alternative college experiences including innovative hybrid college concepts, repurposing spaces for learning, creative educational challenges, and gaining real-world experience through unconventional methods.
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College Often Doesn’t Deliver Learning Or ROI
- College often fails to deliver measurable learning or ROI for many careers.
- Hosts argue social/networking benefits are the main remaining justification, prompting alternatives that replicate those benefits cheaper.
Rent Learning Airbnbs With Visiting Professors
- Instead of paying tuition, rent group Airbnbs and pay visiting professors to create an immersive learning-and-social environment.
- Hosts calculated that housing+professors in desirable locations could be cheaper than dorms and still offer social value.
COVID Exposed University Price Versus Delivery
- COVID forced remote graduations and universities charging full tuition produced a sense of being sold 'Khan Academy for Princeton prices'.
- Speaker 0 recounts drive-by graduations, cardboard cutouts, and parents paying full fees for remote instruction.
