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Why do these courses start so early in the morning (details inside)

Asked by Mimishu1995 (23796points) April 12th, 2022

There is this rather questionable organization that came to my attention last year. I can’t even sum up what they do. They claim to be for people who want to make a career as a start-up educator, but they organize courses for so many things like happiness or business. These courses are so unorganized and unfocused that I don’t even know what they are aiming for. And even the courses that are actually about education are mostly just people telling other people how good they are and asking them to go to their paid master courses. And it seems that you have to help them sell a certain number of courses before you can be considered a member. In short, I don’t trust those people.

But there is something I just can’t seem to understand. I notice that a lot of the courses they organize, paid or free, start very early, at 5 a.m. This is the time when most people in normal circumstances are still in bed. Even people who are stuck up to getting up early would just be doing morning exercise at that hour. And to be able to log in and join the course means that you have already done your morning routine, had your breakfast and are now in a sharp mind before 5 a.m. What are they aiming at when they start their courses so early?

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rebbel's avatar

Maybe the organisation is residing in a different time-zone/on a different continent?
And they like the idea of starting at 11 am (and they target specific markets, in different time-zones from them).

Mimishu1995's avatar

@rebbel the organization resides in my country. And every speaker are from my country. They speak our language.

I have been considering the time zone thing, as maybe some of the speakers are residing in a foreign country. But many courses with different speakers also have the same starting time. Considering they are from my country, they should have know people’s usual schedule. And considering how large they are at least that’s what they claim, they could have made several rooms for the same course at different time.

zenvelo's avatar

Sounds like they are scheduling for people’s “free time” when most of the students would not have a conflict.

And, the whole thing sounds fishy, like a scam.

SnipSnip's avatar

Ask them if you want to know. Or do you just want people to speculate?

Zaku's avatar

Maybe part of their shadiness includes trying to relate to people during their morning fogginess.

And/or maybe they are trying to be available before they or others have other things to do, such as a day job.

And/or maybe they’re crazy.

kruger_d's avatar

Sounds like the Nxivm cult but for educators.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM

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