How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach

The roadmap to success as a knowledge worker, professional, and expert has changed.

Gone are the days when education was something that only happened at the start of your career. The name of today's game, both personally and professionally, is to be constantly learning: just enough, just in time, and never stopping. But where can knowledge workers, professionals, and lifelong learners go to find the training and education they need to stay current and thrive?

It's no secret that universities and colleges are struggling to keep pace and stay current. Often out of touch, exorbitantly overpriced, and slowed by unwieldy infrastructures, bureaucracies and tenure, these institutions are fundamentally designed to deliver a mode of education that still serves an important purpose, but leaves many of our individual and collective needs for learning and growth sorely unmet.

This crisis is an opportunity for the experts and professionals who possess the knowledge and skills that are so sorely needed by so many. The solution is to package their expertise into leveraged learning programs that create transformation for the lifelong learners who need them, and profit for the experts who create them.

Danny Iny, a successful educator entrepreneur, has been leading the charge on this growing movement. And in Leveraged Learning he lays out the guidebook for navigating and thriving in this new world – both as a lifelong learner, and as an expert with something to teach.

As a lifelong learner, you'll gain the skills and acquire the tools that you need to grow and thrive:

* How education has changed, and the implications for knowledge workers and professionals.
* Why the education system is failing you, and what alternatives to consider.
* How to hack your patterns of behavior to support and accelerate your learning.
* The two layers of learning that you must stack together to achieve mastery.
* Which mental habits are critical to achieving ongoing, sustained success.
* How to tell which online courses are worth taking, and which to avoid.
* Why most online courses have single-digit completion rates, and how to transcend the statistics.

And as an expert with something to teach, you'll learn how to package your expertise for others' benefit, and your profit:

* What it really takes to develop a lucrative revenue stream from your expertise.
* The piloting methodology that has worked for thousands of successful online course creators.
* How to design a curriculum that engages students and leads to mastery.
* What to test, measure, and iterate as your course grows and evolves.
* Research-based techniques to help every student perform at the 98th percentile of success.
* Methodologies for peer-based feedback that cost-effectively support student learning.
* How to engineer student success with accountability, gamification, and artificial intelligence.

All this and much, much more is yours for the taking. Leveraged Learning is your indispensable guide to staying current, growing, and thriving in the modern world.

From the book:

"The current dysfunction of education is so egregious because it hurts so many of us.

Most obviously, it hurts the graduates who find themselves with a degree that has practically no market value, forced to make ends meet as Starbucks baristas or Uber drivers.

It hurts the bearers of a combined $1.4 trillion of student debt. For those keeping score, that’s more than credit card debt... and unlike credit card debt, you can’t even declare bankruptcy and free yourself of the potentially lifelong consequences of a bad decision you might have made as a teenager.

It hurts the employers who are starved for talent. Education hasn’t prepared job seekers with the skills to fill more than six million open jobs in the United States alone, even as almost seven million Americans are unemployed and looking for work.

It hurts the learners who seek alternatives. They waste enormous amounts of time and money bouncing between a host of imperfect options like MOOC programs with completion rates that max out at 15 percent, overpriced continuing education programs offered by universities, and courses provided by private instructors of varying quality.

And it hurts educators and learning professionals. They labor heroically to brighten their students’ futures, but often that their best efforts can’t overcome the inertia and challenge of the systems in which they operate.

We all hurt from the broken nature of modern education, that no longer prepares us for success. And we all need a solution that is more than just a band-aid.

Thankfully, such a solution exists. That’s what this book is about."