Online Course Platforms are Stagnating

Some unfiltered thoughts about the current state of the online course platform industry. I've been trying to think of something insightful to say about online courses and course platforms, but I don't have the brain power now with an infant in the house. So instead I think I'll share a little bit about the motivation I had with LearnDash and how I think it relates to what we see today for online course platforms. Back when I started LearnDash in 2012, online courses looked a lot different. Those big SaaS platforms that you see today like Teachable and Thinkific didn't exist. Membership plugins were around, but they weren't connecting the dots for online learning. More often than not, courses were primarily text and images, and only sometimes did they include video. The timing was perfect for a new vision. The Original Vision Essentially, my vision with LearnDash at the time was: Eliminate the learning curve that was so steep with learning management systems, and; To provide an…