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A college free of charge with no teachers, no classes and no diploma in the end. This is Codam, a futuristic educational programming system which opened its doors for students on the 24^th of September 2018 in Amsterdam. The average duration of such a programme is three years long, depending on the pace of the student.

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Students are welcome any day at any time since the college is open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Their innovative teaching method is to guide students into developing highly-demanded programming skills by having them work together on projects, which get checked and graded by their own peers. Working without any teachers, students can manage their own learning process by participating in gamified challenges. According to Codam, students learn the most by doing and they are able to work on their own projects and make mistakes without being pressured.

There is a high demand for good programmers and this demand will keep expanding exponentially, considering the digital world we live in. According to current market data, jobs in the technology sector are expected to grow 11% faster than any other job sector in The Netherlands. What is interesting from this educational system is that this teaching method is actually succeeding, even in other countries as well. Codam is following the same principles as the French Ecole 42, which has been awarded as the best coding school worldwide in 2017.

So what is this unique learning method telling us? Are we slowly but surely entering a phase where traditional educational systems will be replaced by self-teaching futuristic systems?

If these self-teaching programming colleges managed to be the best worldwide and thereby outperforming the same study programmes which are offered in the traditional educational systems, I believe the answer is yes. What do you think of this disruption? Will this be seen as valuable for future employers?

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Grocery stores are the most important purchase channels for the purchase and sale of food items worldwide. Both grocery retailers and stores have taken on a coordinating role in the food retail industry, which creates substantial influence on daily consumer practices. With the introduction of a recent disruptive development in The Netherlands, Picnic, the traditional practices of grocery shopping are about to change. Following up similar succesfull innovations in other countries, such as Amazon Fresh, it is very unlikely for companies like Picnic to fail in the market.

Online grocery retailing

Online grocery shopping provides consumers with many benefits. First, it saves them time. Furthermore, it offers more convenience and freedom to the customers, since you can shop for groceries online anytime and anywhere. Grocery shopping is seen as a burden, since most consumers find it a boring and repetitive process. Second, less food is being wasted as grocery stores can make more accurate predictions of demand by using real time data and algorithms. In addition, with more and more people using the service over time, it is likely that it will lead to positive network effects. Current grocery stores that offer online grocery shopping do not offer all their products online yet, however, with more customers ordering online they will quickly expand their online offerings. A wide assortment will then create more value for the customers.

However, although convenience is important, consumers are not willing to compensate on price, quality and assortment. If online grocery stores are not expanding or at least meeting their expected standards, consumers will continue to shop in the traditional physical stores. If online grocery stores do manage to meet these expectations, more and more people will make the transition to online grocery shopping since traditional grocery shopping will not offer any extra benefits to the consumers anymore.

Perhaps there will be no physical grocery stores in the near future at all?

Galante, N., López, E. G., & Monroe, S. (2013). The future of online grocery in Europe. McKinsey & Company, 22-31.

Codam: The Educational System of the Future

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