Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach - Hardcover

Iny, Danny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1940858690 ISBN 13: 9781940858692

Publisher: Ideapress Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

“Leveraged Learning is a tour de force of education - how it evolved, what it delivered and where it is going”—Srikumar Rao

In a world where education is broken, everyone loses. But big disruption (and transformation) is coming to higher education, and there will be many winners.

This is the book that explores a model of education that’s not only robust enough for the modern world, it’s also affordable for students. It’s viable for businesses who long to finally hire the skills that are hard to find. And it’s distributed to the experts who are at the cutting edge of their fields rather than being confined to the purely intellectual and theoretical realms of the ivory tower.

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. These online courses will create transformation for the lifelong learners who need them, and profit for the experts who create them.

Danny Iny, a successful educator and entrepreneur, has been leading the charge in the growing movement of course building and online education. 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 three 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.

Whether you will be one of the course creators or one of the lifelong learners (or both), you’ll benefit when you come along for the journey. Scroll up and buy the book today.

About this title

About the Author:

Danny Iny (@DannyIny) is an educator, entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Mirasee - a business education company. He’s developed widely acclaimed training, coaching, and support programs including the Course Builder’s Laboratory, Standout Guest Posting, the Business Ignition Bootcamp, and the ACES Club, which together have graduated over 5,000 value-driven entrepreneurs.

Danny’s nine published books include Leveraged Learning, Teach and Grow Rich, The Audience Revolution, and Engagement from Scratch!.

Danny’s lifelong love-hate relationship with education began with dropping out of high school at age 15, and eventually led to earning an MBA from Canada’s elite Queen’s School of Business. He has guest lectured at institutions including McGill and Yale universities, and is sought after by many authorities in the world of online business education, who are his private clients. Danny’s work is followed by over 100,000 experts and professionals

All of this grew out of humble beginnings; he started out just like most online entrepreneurs, with an idea and message to share, and no idea how to do it. He made several wrong turns, but he’s fond of saying that failure isn’t the end of the story—it’s just a “plot twist.”

Back in 2011, he started Firepole Marketing with less than nothing; he had no traffic, no subscribers, no relationships with any influencers in the industry, and over a quarter million dollars in personal debt, left over from his last failed startup.

In just a few short years, he transformed Firepole Marketing into Mirasee and grew the business to multiple-seven figures in revenue. Together with his talented wife, he now leads a team of 30+ people spread all over the world who are on a mission to support a very special global community of 100,000+ loyal and inspired entrepreneurs.

Then, in 2015, Firepole Marketing became Mirasee, a change that reflects the true mission of the brand, which is helping visionary entrepreneurs create income through impact.

Danny has maintained a passionate commitment to learning and transparency, freely sharing lessons learned from great successes, major challenges, and even his personal life to support the online entrepreneurial community as a teacher, speaker, angel investor, and advisor to many of the top leaders in our industry, who have Danny on speed-dial when they need help with their business or strategy.

His work is followed by over 100,000 experts and professionals across various outreach channels (email, social media, blog, column on Inc.com, etc.), and between 2015-2018, they’ve invested over $10 million towards training for success in the online education and course building space through his books and courses.

His study, research, and unflagging drive over the years have culminated in his latest work, Leveraged Learning, which aims to sow the seed of higher education’s transformation in the coming years.

Review:

"Leveraged Learning is a well-crafted, compelling examination and re-imagination of education. In the face of our consternation about the future of work and societal turmoil, Danny Iny gives us a path toward a smarter and more capable world." –Randy Komisar, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, former CEO of LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, former Stanford professor, and best-selling author of The Monk and the Riddle and Getting to Plan B

"Leveraged Learning is a must-read for anyone looking to spread ideas. In a world of shrinking attention spans, education is experiencing a revolution. Danny Iny has his finger on the pulse of what's to come, and a gift for translating complicated, jargon-heavy theory into simple and engaging concepts. The result is a compelling, practical and important guide to teaching in the age of distraction." –Ron Friedman, Ph.D., best-selling author of The Best Place to Work

"A prescient look at where the learning industry is headed, and the implications for both students and professionals." –Jeff Cobb, co-founder of Tagoras, and author of Leading the Learning Revolution

"If you are anything like me, your degree alone didn't prepare you for the job you have today. Most likely, you don't even work in the same field as your original degree! Danny Iny isn't the first to make this observation, or to question the path that most educational institutions are on. But no one has laid out a cogent argument for a meaningful alternative for achieving true learning that best serves the student. Until now. If you care about our broken education system, you most read Leveraged Learning." –Abe Crystal, CEO of Ruzuku

"Danny takes an intriguing exploration into the problems with the current models for learning, and gives some thoughtful ideas for where we need to go next." –Randy Gage, New York Times best-selling author of Risky Is the New Safe and Mad Genius

"My reputation is in part because of my education. And I make my living by being an educator, teaching leaders and managers around the world. And I'm in a perpetual state of anxiety about the future of education. Because I know it's changing... I'm just not sure exactly how, or how fast. Danny Iny is my trusted guide across a treacherous landscape." –Michael Bungay Stanier, author of the WSJ-bestseller, The Coaching Habit

"This is the end of expensive and worthless degrees. As an employer and a lifelong learner, I feel Danny has concisely identified the challenges facing post-secondary both in usefulness to the student and as a signal to employers. His solution, while not simple, will lead to employees who are highly capable, well educated for the task at hand and skilled at keeping their knowledge current to support their current and future growth needs." –Dave Lakhani, CEO of Bold Approach, best-selling author of Persuasion: The Art of Getting What You Want

"Danny Iny has done the hard work of studying the true future of learning, and outlines the strategies and tactics to make sure you don’t get left behind." –David Burkus, associate professor at Oral Roberts University, and best-selling author of Friend of a Friend and Under New Management

"Leveraged Learning is a tour de force of education - how it evolved, what it delivered and where it is going. We all know that higher education is 'broken' but Danny give us a penetrating insight into how it is broken and why it is broken. He identifies the four major transformations that are wrecking our current institutions and provides us possible solutions that are cheaper and better. This is a book that will make you think and likely change how you invest in education - for yourself and your loved ones." – Srikumar Rao, TED Speaker, former Columbia professor, and author of Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated and Successful - No Matter What

"Whether you’re a lifelong learner or passionate expert, Leveraged Learning will take you on a journey from the failures of our current system, through to a bright and exciting future for education and give you the tools to be a part of it." –Greg Smith, Founder and CEO of Thinkific

"Forget about four-year degrees and decades (or more) of debt. Stop what you are doing and read Leveraged Learning, it clearly lays out the future of education for students, employers and lifetime learners." –John Ruhlin, CEO of the Ruhlin Group, best-selling author of Giftology

"What if modern education was more about engaging curiosity instead of memorizing useless factoids? In this well-argued book, Danny Iny offers an insightful look into how we can (and must) transform the way we learn today. It starts with rethinking what we need to know and reimagining who we choose to teach it to us. Read this book to help you understand what it takes to do both." –Rohit Bhargava, adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Non-Obvious

"Danny offers a clear view into the present education crisis. He then leads us into a future where a new way of learning can transform the education crisis into humanity's greatest opportunity." –Chris Badgett, CEO of LifterLMS

"Many people talk about the uselessness and cost of degrees unused but no one has laid out as cogent an argument for a meaningful alternative for achieving true learning that best serves the student. Best of all, students won't be in debt until they are 40 or longer and they'll have the education they need for the purpose it will serve, just when they need it most." –Michael Port, NY Times, WSJ bestselling author of Steal the Show

"This is a book that schools will hate and employers will love. Say goodbye to expensive and often useless degrees (be honest, how many people do you know who don't work in the field related to their degree, I don't). Danny Iny presents a well-defined argument for how education has failed both the student and employers and exactly how it not only needs to but will, change. Say goodbye to 20 years of debt for classes and degrees you'll never use after the classroom and say hello to education the way it should be: precise, practical, and profitable." –Ankur Nagpal, CEO of Teachable

"The conversation around education in these times is an important, nuanced one. Danny's book is full of interesting ideas, examples and valuable for anyone navigating the world of learning and education." – UJ Ramdas, co-founder of Intelligent Change and co-creator of The Five Minute Journal

"Most forms of traditional education are expensive, and they are failing their students, which is creating a significant demand for non-traditional education channels. In this excellent book, Danny Iny shows us how we can provide a more enriching experience for our students that will translate into more results for them, and more of an impact they will have on the world." –Derek Coburn, author of Networking Is Not Working

"Danny Iny says that in a world of broken education, we all lose. I couldn’t agree more. I just wish there had been a Danny trying to fix the world in this way when education was failing me. But I’m grateful that he’s helping to build a better future for my children." –Sean Platt, CEO of Sterling and Stone, and best-selling author of Write. Publish. Repeat.

"Iny is the foremost expert in online education and one who does it ethically and without sleaze. With Leveraged Learning, he has taken his real-world experience in growing his own online education business and helping entrepreneurs like me, and distilled it into a book that will help other entrepreneurs and those who have a lifelong learning passion. I cannot recommend it more highly." – Gini Dietrich, CEO of Arment Dietrich and founder and author of Spin Sucks

"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to thrive in today's highly competitive job market." – Michael Veltri, Leadership Expert and best-selling author of The Mushin Way to Peak Performance

"We live in an accelerated age that requires business to continually reinvent itself to remain viable and profitable. Yet, as Danny Iny explains in Leveraged Learning, our outmoded post-secondary educational system is not only inadequately preparing us to effectively execute in these realms, but leaving learners (ourselves and our children!) saddled with whopping debt from which they may never fully recover. A true visionary, Iny lays out a practical, effective and much-needed solution that will empower students to thrive and prosper, and employers to find a workforce with the critical skills, abilities and emotional intelligence vital to succeed. This book is a game changer whose time has come." –Diane Bolden, President of Synchronistics, and author of The Pinocchio Principle

"At the same time as the old mass education system is becoming more expensive, a new opportunity has arisen to unbundle education: from one-and-done to lifelong learning and from made for everyone to made for you. Leveraged Learning shows why this is happening and how you can take advantage of it." –Taylor Pearson, author of The End of Jobs

About this edition

• Publisher: Ideapress Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1940858690
• ISBN 13: 9781940858692
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250