Oddbean

Online med school program. Med theory only. Digital, borderless, unlimited capacity, no age limits, no pre-requisites, low-fee to no-fee. I would incentivize current doctors to compile existing online materials from Wikipedia, Journals, even YouTube into a standardized program. Then create their own content for any materials not covered well. The goal is for anyone to access, anyone to afford, and anyone to work through at their own pace. Once a student completes the program, they can move on to practicum elsewhere. But the theory-only knocks a solid 1/4 to 1/3 off the total program time/cost. Allowing these practicums to operate with greater capacity.

Yup you're right. Can add others after. One step at a time. Also some other programs are offered online (EdX, Coursera, Udemy), but Med is not. Focus first on building what doesn't exist. The programs that are offered online are via traditional legacy universities (even on these platforms). So their costs are astronomical vs an automated on-demand program. IE: A comp-sci degree should cost $500 to $1000, not $20,000. The whole degree, not just courses.

I worked in private education. Every time I think about it I want to puke. When I moved into management it became clear what my bosses wanted from me: exploit my staff, exploit my students I’ve had a dream a while ago, a protocol that would handle the communication (and much more) between people like yourself and all the people you might want to interact with for your wish to become true. Basically, a network that would empower the people who feel the drive to teach.

Ya these university empires are not it. Spend more money on fancy buildings than program efficiency. Similar thoughts to yours. A type of collaborative platform. Open sources ish. But contributors compensated. Like 80% of the info is already out there. It's just a matter of packaging it into a program with a bow on it. But there's also tricky concepts to the user. So as the user navigates through the program, they could vote on how easy each concept is. If it's hard, contributors could see this frustration in their portal, and brainstorm ways to explain it simpler. Then go back and paste in that simplification (either text, video, graphic; media agnostic). The easiest to understand explanation shows to the user as the primary, so the path of least resistance to enlightenment occurs. And the contributor gets compensated for viewership. Rewarding good simple explanations. Also, attacking learning painpoints like this en-masse reduces the dependance on expensive 1-on-1 tutoring. It provides the path of least resistance to knowledge. User experience, applied to education.