Optimal Work Daily - Career, Productivity and Entrepreneurship 2043: Why You Should Take, and Even Maybe Teach, an Online Course by Jeff Goins on Digital Education
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May 5, 2026 Discussion of how online courses have reshaped education into a flexible, results-driven, and often more affordable alternative to traditional schooling. A pricing test suggests sampling high-end courses before charging similar rates. Practical criteria for choosing quality courses are outlined. Frustration with low-quality offerings is framed as a prompt to create better courses.
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Pay Before You Price Your Course
- Do try several paid courses before pricing your own; Ramit Sethi advised paying what you plan to charge to learn what a high-value product looks like.
- Jeff Goins signed up for courses himself to study quality and design his own course after seeing $2,000-course expectations.
Online Courses Can Outperform College
- Insight: Online courses can equal or surpass live education in effectiveness and experience.
- Jeff Goins notes technology, interactivity, and focused, results-driven instruction can make online learning sometimes better than college.
Online Learning As The Third Path
- Insight: Traditional options often fail midcareer learners: returning to school is costly and self-teaching is isolating.
- Goins frames online courses as a third path for people who need guided instruction without college price tags.