For more info, listen at https://techzinglive.com/page/1764/346-tz-discussion-better-..., offset 36:40.
> 36:40: Jason: You go to some .us site … that's about some school program, and then there's some beta link; and then you go to this big long stream of screenschots and information; and then you have to send an email to get a demo. I mean, talk about … the worst conversion funnel possible.
Justin: Even the fact that … you've had those hundred people is … great.
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Jason: Given that we're almost making it impossible — you have to … run a spartan race to sign up for this course — … it's not bad.
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> 39:15: Jason: What the system does is it says, … "You're in this course calculus or algebra or whatever it is, … here are five tasks that are unlocked for you to work on." Some combination overview tasks, and some are new lesson taught lessons on new topics. …
The problem is is that you don't really have a context for … "Why am I doing these tasks? … Where is this in the context of everything else on the graph?" And it doesn't give you a lot of freedom … to define your path.
So … what we're doing now (because there was a little bit of discussion … from some of our high school students about this) is … you'll go in and you will be able to pick from the graph what you want to do. … Here are all these different major categories, … I want to do something on differential equations or we do something on number theory and you just click on it and then it shows the graph
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Thanks to audiotype.org for 1 minute transcribed for free, and revoldiv.com (from a reddit recommendation) that took a bit more to clean up so I just chopped a lot more out of it.