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For many years, University of Phoenix handled async education with NNTP. Because NNTP is inherently designed for asynchronous communication in topic silos; is simple; and low overhead it worked really well.

They built a new platform because internet bandwidth had increased to the point where it was competing with real time educational platforms.

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Discussion forums (regardless of technology) are generally super useful for async communication and learning. We have tried to take a lot of inspiration from this. I think NNTP is a good example of technology rarely being a barrier if there is just enough intrinsic motivation to learn.

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