Andrew Barry

Enabling Transformational Online Courses

 
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Episode Notes (by minute):

-2:00 - How Andrew really got involved with online transformational courses in 2019 after 15 years of working on learning and development and corporate training

-4:30 - How Andrew had an epiphany moment in summer of 2020 during David Perell’s Write of Passage workshop unlocking a key learning for him about online courses and for David’s as well

-6:00 - Why Andrew’s Twitter account took off after sharing helpful insights in 2020

-7:30 - Why online workshops are a very experimental place right now for teachers and students

-10:00 - How you build your curriculum by understanding people’s challenges and listening to their feedback and iterating along the way

-14:00 - Why frameworks are important for course creators because they are memorable

-15:00 - Why your job as a course creator is not to provide the answers, but to be the guide

-17:30 - Andrew’s 3P’s framework of: personal meaning, peer-to-peer learning, and prompts to action

-20:00 - Why courses can also provide intangible benefits like confidence (e.g. Khe’s Hy’s Notion course)

-24:00 - Why learning in public can open new opportunities

-28:00 - How a cohort-based course can be entry point to additional add-on services and upsells (i.e. implementation, coaching, etc)

-29:30 - How an spontaneous conversation with On Deck Cofounder, Erik Torenberg, led Andrew to become the On Deck Course Creator Fellowship program director

-34:00 - How you have an opportunity to eventually start a cohort-based course by helping others and slowly start ramping up with group coaching and more

(Note: these are quick notes and takeaways by David Nebinski. Please see the episode for more accurate information)

Published Date: 4/8/21