When Oscar Wilde described an expert as an ordinary man — or woman — away from home giving advice, he couldn’t have imagined how that notion would resonate across the Internet, and that the ranks of authoritative lay people would have grown exponentially into an army of online educators.
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Referring to special offers on Instagram that begin with the inducement of a free lesson or workout session, Easley said, “I’ve seen it in fitness where you do the first 10 minutes of the workout with a master trainer and then it kicks you out. I understand it they’re paying the trainer, but it’s bait and switch. There’s so much content and so much noise and no barrier to entry. Therein lies the problem: quality control.
“Oh my god, you’re in,” Danielle Leslie, a former marketer for Silicon Valley start-ups, said recently on Instagram, raising a mocktail — “Kombucha,” she told viewers — as virtual confetti shot up from under a table. “Welcome to CourseFromScratch. I’m wearing my party jacket, and my earrings. I’ve been waiting for this moment. So, let’s do, ‘Cheers to you.'”
With courses begetting many more courses, it may soon be hard to distinguish the teachers from students. As Pat Morita’s character Mr. Miyagi in the “Karate Kid” told Daniel , “The student has become the master.” Which begs the question, if everyone’s a teacher, where will the students come from?