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Everything I know about how to create a transformational online course
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1/ The thread that started it all, a collection of my essays and checklists on the
Do you have an online course?
— Andrew Barry \U0001f981 (@Bazzaruto) October 18, 2020
I want to tell you a little about learning architecture.
My agency partners with content experts to help them create courses, and I've written extensively about it.
If you want to learn about educational design, here's a start \U0001f447
2/ There are two stages to building a successful online course business - launch and your first students
They require mastering different skill
As my friend @BillyBroas pointed out to me last week: online courses are moving upmarket.
— Andrew Barry \U0001f981 (@Bazzaruto) October 28, 2020
What does this mean if you want to create an online course these days?
Think of it in two stages
3/ Avoid the same mistakes I made over the last 15 years doing this
Some of the mistakes I've made creating online courses make me cringe
— Andrew Barry \U0001f981 (@Bazzaruto) November 23, 2020
This coming week I'm going to share a few lessons I've learned from mistakes like these
4/ Great online courses are not about the transfer of knowledge
They're about the transformation of students
\u2018Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.\u2019
— Andrew Barry \U0001f981 (@Bazzaruto) November 23, 2020
\u2013Socrates
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This New York Times feature shows China with a Gini Index of less than 30, which would make it more equal than Canada, France, or the Netherlands. https://t.co/g3Sv6DZTDE
That's weird. Income inequality in China is legendary.
Let's check this number.
2/The New York Times cites the World Bank's recent report, "Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World".
The report is available here:
3/The World Bank report has a graph in which it appears to show the same value for China's Gini - under 0.3.
The graph cites the World Development Indicators as its source for the income inequality data.

4/The World Development Indicators are available at the World Bank's website.
Here's the Gini index: https://t.co/MvylQzpX6A
It looks as if the latest estimate for China's Gini is 42.2.
That estimate is from 2012.
5/A Gini of 42.2 would put China in the same neighborhood as the U.S., whose Gini was estimated at 41 in 2013.
I can't find the <30 number anywhere. The only other estimate in the tables for China is from 2008, when it was estimated at 42.8.