The One Reason I don’t Recommend Anyone Signing Up for Paid Coaching or Webinars
When everyone’s a ‘Guru’, you need to start looking the other way.
If there’s one industry that grew throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unquestioningly the EdTech space.
Everyone is savoring this ‘new normal’ like hot pancakes. Webinars, MOOC platforms, online masterclasses, workshops, there seems to be like a buffet of learning being served on a platter these days.
I have been fascinated by online courses since 2014. I still remember my first online course on Coursera about Content Strategy. It was from a foreign university.
Living in a country where professional and vocational education is hard to come by, the concept seemed revolutionary back then.
If you’re part of professional forums particularly, you might have seen an influx of paid and unpaid webinars since the early March, especially after the lockdown.
Parents are hailing this new phenomenon. Students have mixed opinions. But for general public, this is a chance at upskilling. But is it really?