Online Learning Platforms for Creative Interests and Hobbies: A Platform Business Model Solution for College Students
Overview
This essay examines the growing demand for online learning platforms that enable college students to explore hobbies and creative interests alongside academic studies. The paper argues that a platform business model represents a viable solution to meet this demand, particularly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic's validation of online learning. The essay analyzes how online platforms like MasterClass, Udemy, and Skillshare facilitate personal development, stress relief, and community building among learners.
What this essay covers
- Introduction establishing the importance of hobbies for college student wellbeing and the rise of online learning platforms
- Analysis of online learning for creative interests and hobbies, including psychological and social benefits
- Discussion of major online learning platforms and market growth, with industry statistics on pandemic-driven expansion
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College is a time to improve self-understanding in terms of one's interests and likes. Hobbies help people grow as individuals and are also a way for college students to get rid of the psychological and nervous pressures of studies. Therefore, it is not unusual that there has been a growing demand for online learning platforms that allow college students to explore areas of discovery and creativity and perfect these interests when there is time to spare. After the Covid-19 pandemic, most students were forced to become online learners, and many saw the period as a watershed moment for both academic learning and pursuing one's interests. The pandemic significantly validated online learning platforms, concise online hobby classes that provide fun and learning. This essay proposes a platform business model as a viable solution to meeting the growing demand for hobbies and interests courses among college students.
Online Learning for Creative Interests and Hobbies
While the journey of exploring areas of discovery is enriching in itself, hobbies and interests are a great way to increase one’s confidence. Whether pursuing a craft or skill development, hobbies are a worthwhile diversion and a way for the person to develop a sense of purpose and become more confident in learning new things in any environment (Kletter, 2020). Besides, the college rigors of academic life call for distressing oneself in order to remain mentally productive.