Hey Indie hackers, If you had to guess, what is your completion rate (%) for on demand online courses
Recently I read that most online courses have a 3% completion rate!
Does that sound right to you?
I love learning new things online and frustratingly, I have bailed on a few courses or never effectively applied the learning from others but I thought it was just me.
To be honest I think I finished less than half of my online courses. After the first few courses I had not finished I felt really bad.
In my opinion these are completely normal thoughts when quitting an online course.
But after quitting a few, I realized, the most important point is: Why do you quit?
Did you lost interest or maybe like me, you learned the core basics. But now the linear pace of doing an online course is not fast enough to adapt to a human exponential learning curve.
What I wanna say here: Often times these online courses get boring after you learned the basics.
Then you wanna start your own projects, you wanna implement your knowledge in things you are passionate about.
In my opinion we should not see courses as a path that we need to go, but more like a platform to launch our skill rockets. Normally you use the platform as the start of your journey, but when you stick to the platform, you won't imrpove your skills in the fastest way possible.
In conclusion: If you quit a course because you've learned the basics and wanna get hands on experience, there should be no shame when quitting. If you lost interest in the topic, quitting is also the right thing, because this course just tought you that this topic is not what suits your interests.
Why do you think?