{"id":1149,"date":"2008-02-11T18:53:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T18:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/online-learning-oprah-reaching-the-other-98\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:36","slug":"online-learning-oprah-reaching-the-other-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/online-learning-oprah-reaching-the-other-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Learning: Oprah reaching the &#8220;other 98%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly toss out a phantom statistic (which I made up, but may be an overestimation) that the stuff we talk about on <a linkindex=\"15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edtechtalk.com\/taxonomy\/term\/130\">EdTechWeekly<\/a><br \/>\nand in the edublogosphere reaches and resonates with less than 2% of<br \/>\nthe population. I further contend that reaching the &#8220;other 98%&#8221; is the<br \/>\nobstacle. Well &#8230; leave it to Oprah to give it a whack. Through her<br \/>\nbook club, the other 98% (and our 2%, for that matter) can take part in<br \/>\n<a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"16\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/obc_classic\/webevent_registration.jsp\">live online classes taught by Oprah and the book&#8217;s author<\/a>.<br \/>\nI find this fascinating! Maybe I&#8217;m basing my assumptions on completely<br \/>\nerroneous stereotypes, but I would guess that the vast majority of<br \/>\nthose signing up had never taken (nor considered taking) an online<br \/>\ncourse in the past. I guess if anyone could bring &#8217;em into the fold, it<br \/>\nwould be Oprah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly toss out a phantom statistic (which I made up, but may be an overestimation) that the stuff we talk about on EdTechWeekly and in the edublogosphere reaches and resonates with less than 2% of the population. I further contend that reaching the &#8220;other 98%&#8221; is the obstacle. Well &#8230; leave it to Oprah&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}