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Ian Moore Post 1

• 8 February 2025, 1:22 PM

Motivation

Free on line education may well make education available to many more people but does not address how to motivate people to become involved in these courses. How can curiosity be developed in people? Are there people who enjoy learning for its own sake and others who do not enjoy learning and don't want to become involved. If a person is a member of the second group they are highly unlikely to benefit from these types of courses and the existence of these types of courses may well increase the divide between these two groups.

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Jonathan Robert Donnelly Post 2 in reply to 1

• 22 February 2025, 5:05 AM • Edited by the author on 22 February 2025, 5:06 AM

I get where you are coming from, the second is way larger because lack of motivation applies to everyone and there are only so many hours in the day with work, family, hobbies and entertainment all competing for time. 

If a course is required  as part of somebodies job it will get done.

If a course gives the person a list of letters after the name or looks good on the C.V. it might get done.

If a course is not required it is only going to get done if it presents a huge amount of value, like a new skill such as programming or learning a new app, it may get done.

Studying for the sake of it is a small group. 

Curiosity can often be satiated with Youtube videos like Ted Talks or a podcast or maybe a book without needing to take any courses. 

I am interested in car audio and I found by watching channels where people have done builds along with manufactures deep dives and tutorials along with my own experiments I have learned much about that subject and hobby. I would NOT be interested in taking a course it might RUIN my interest and feel like work.