So you might be thinking to yourself, depending on where you live,
that what I'm describing is much different from your country or society.
And I hope that you can understand the example that I'm using.
If you're not familiar, I invite you to take some time and
to maybe to do a little bit of research online.
The fact that you're taking a course from Coursera indicates that you
have some awareness of new offerings.
But I want you to think for
a minute about consumption of higher education, the product,
and what it is that those traditional students over the last four decades.
Those 18 to 22 year old students who live on campus,
what it is they're hiring, the higher education product,
what job they're hiring them to fulfill, or complete in their lives.
And you could probably make an argument, and lots of researchers have,
that the product that they're paying for, that they're hiring to complete a job or
task for them is multifaceted or complex.
Some would say that they're hiring the universe
deed to provide in entertainment, task to their lives.
Some would say it's part of a social growing up process,
a coming of age, we say in English.
You go and have this experience away from home and you learn to
have fun, a lot of people do, or you learn to learn.
And so there are a lot of things that are involved beyond just
what you might think of the classroom that you're hiring for.
You're hiring an identity to be part of an organization
that you can identify with the rest of your life as a graduate or as an alumnus.