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81% of people believe education is shifting to autodidacticism
Autodidacts In Action
- Autodidact: a person who is partially or completely self-taught
- Who has attained expert level knowledge through self-education?
- Frederick Douglass
- American abolitionist and speaker
- Mukul Deva
- Indian writer, speaker, and coach
- Melanie Klein
- Founder of children’s psychology
- Frida Kahlo
- Mexican painter and portrait artist
- Nazir Naji
- Pakistani Journalist and writer for the Prime Minister
- Steve Jobs
- Founder of Apple
The truth is, self-education is right at your fingertips
Formal College Degrees Are Increasingly Unpopular
- Costs
- College costs tripled in less than 20 years
- Cost of a Bachelor’s Degree may be more than $400,000 (including lost income)
- The average learner spends 20 years paying off student loans
- Housing Insecurity
- 56% are housing insecure every year
- 17% have been homeless in the last year
- Military students are more likely to be homeless
- Lost Income
- Students who cannot work full time lose up to $39,676 a year
- 50% of students cannot afford a healthy diet
- 20% lost weight because they could not afford food
- High school diploma holders earn $158,704 over 4 years (while college students cannot work)
More than half of Gen Zs in the US believe degrees aren’t necessary for success
Popular Fields That Are Often Self Taught
- Coding Developers
- Demand hit 22% in 2020
- Marketing
- Demand hit 6% in 2020
- Data Analysts
- Demand hit 28% in 2020
73% of college grads are working in a job unrelated to their degree
Reasons To Get A Self-Taught College Education
- Retraining For Work
- 42% of Americans use free online resources to retrain for work
- Upskilling
- 31% of US workers are upskilling for free online
- Boosting Soft Skills
- 78% of people worldwide believe they need more training in softer business skills
- Low Costs
- The average college degree costs $35,720 per student per year
Finding college-level education online is easier than you might think
Websites For Self Learning
- University websites offer free courses
- Business, Computer Science, Healthcare – Harvard University
- Geometry, Economics, Chemical Science – MIT
- Fintech, English, Data Science – Berkeley
- Aggregate sites collect the best courses for you
- CollegeCliffs.com
- EdX.org
- Coursera
- Expert Made Courses
- Udemy.com
- Khan Academy
- TedED
- MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
- Free online courses for anyone to enroll in
- Canvas Network
- FutureLearn
- LinkedIn Learning
College websites aren’t the only place you can go for self-taught college education
Tools For Self Learning
- Codeacademy.com
- Interactive platform teaches you to code in multiple languages
- SkillShare
- Learning via interactivity and project completion
- PluralSight
- Training courses for software devs, IT admin, and related fields
Knowing which platforms to use will help you make the best decision about courses
Free College Education Options By Discipline
- Business Administration
- Harvard University
- Healthcare
- Alison.com
- Data / Computer Science
- MIT
- Education
- University of Michigan
The most important part of self-taught education is finishing it well
How To Stay On Course
- Minimize distractions by working in a quiet place
- Set goals and mile markers
- Follow a study schedule
- Enhance what you already know
- Get an accountability buddy
- Physically move to a different space
- Library
- Coffeeshop
- Business Center
- Remind yourself why you want to learn
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” – Isaac Asimov, Famous American writer, and professor of biology
College Cliffs Can Help
- Free online resource for students
- Provides information about the college journey
- Scholarships
- Career Guides
- College Rankings
- Internships
- Free online college classes
- Makes it easy to choose a path you’ll love
College-level education is in good hands — yours.
Sources
- https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/advertising-promotions-and-marketing-managers.
- https://www.udemy.com
- https://www.khanacademy.org/
- https://ed.ted.com/
- https://www.codecademy.com/
- https://www.skillshare.com/
- https://www.pluralsight.com/product/skills/individuals
- https://alison.com/courses/health
- https://ai.umich.edu/
- https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college
- https://online-learning.harvard.edu/catalog/free
- https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
- https://www.edx.org/school/uc-berkeleyx
- www.CollegeCliffs.com
- https://www.edx.org/
- https://www.coursera.org/
- https://thenextweb.com/news/over-65-percent-of-new-developers-are-self-taught-im-surprised-its-not-100-percent
- https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/advertising-promotions-and-marketing-managers.
- https://quanthub.com/data-scientist-shortage-2020/
