Feedback wanted: Review my challenge structure
Hey guys. For a long time I'm against buying Udemy like courses with some very rare exceptions. You know the traditional online course model, watching passively a sequence of recorded videos and PDFs, with maybe some quizes between and at the end you get a certificate. I just don't think that works most of the time. It's just not a very good way to make sure that people are really learning and not just cheating to get the certificate. And even if the course is preparing you to a very serious certification that will be monitored by a specialized institution like Pearson Vue in order to get more credibility on your studies, it still not a guarantee that you took your learning to a degree beyond just being able to answer the questions. So I never wanted to do the same thing for my classroom. I believe that learning through the internet, and learning in general in this era of excess of information, requires a more active and interactive approach than ever. And Skool is the perfect platform for that. So I'm doing an experiment of a well structured active learning experience through challenges. Here is a quick breakdown of how I do it: - For a 30 day challenge, I organize each week with a theme. At each day of that week, I make a challenge post. - I plan everything in advance and organize the classroom. The challenge is a course. Each week is a folder with the name of the theme. And inside each folder there is a page for the post that I will link, with the name already planned for. - The challenge post of the day has the content for people to learn and have context but is very straight to the point. The whole point is learning throught practice with the challenge that I leave at the end of it. And than people can use the comments to show the results of what they did, ask questions and have feedback from me and the community. - The fact that the challenge is organized at the classroom makes it easy for me to link it to people. And if someone missed a day, they can easily go there and post. I'll always be checking new interactions in order to give feedback. - Once every few months I'll do a new round of the challenges and use the same classroom pages to link them. That way the posts won't get too noisy and newcomers will have a new opportunity to be part of the challenge at the time it's happening. I might do slight variations on the tasks at each round.