The Role of Community in Learning Online w/ Alberto Arenaza (Co-founder of Transcend Network)

<p>You've might have seen some studies or heard of statistics that talk about how low course completion rates are...</p><p>It's true the average online course has a 6% completion rate; however, a recently implemented technique in the online learning space is flipping on the model on its head. </p><p>With this simple mechanism, online course completion rates can skyrocket to over 90%. </p><p>What is this new mechanism? Well, it's actually not new. It's old as civilization:</p><p><strong>Community.<br></strong><br></p><p>Nothing is more important to keep students engaged with course material than learning along-side individuals in a similar stage to themselves. </p><p>This simple ingredient has been instrumental in making learning online actually viable for life-changing career education. </p><p>And it's not just completion rate, every other metric goes haywire if you can successfully integrate community into your online course: engagement, comprehension, etc...</p><p>Recently, Alberto Arenaza and I had an in-depth conversation about the transformation we're seeing in higher education and remote learning. </p><p>A big focus of the conversation was about the role of community in online learning environments. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>