Outcomes from an educational fintech course on multi-asset investment

This study reports findings from a higher education investment course designed to enhance skills-based learning through experiential, immersive, live, and technologically empowering elements. Results suggest the following performance for the course. First, pure popularity and peer-to-peer word-of-mouth has seen course numbers grow almost 2.5× over 3 years. Learner numbers are two and a half times the second most popular final-year course in the Business School. Second, the course levels-up by amplifying engagement, participation, and inclusion. Compared to ten other, identical cohort all-elective courses, the left shoulder of the grade distribution is lighter, with fewer students obtaining grades 40 to 60. The right shoulder of the grade distribution is heavier, with more students obtaining grades 60 to 75. Third, the development of skills and competencies rather than concepts and abstract constructs appears to have dampened the highest grades achieved among the handful of learners that happen to have strengths coinciding with a few traditional academic components. The average course grade is similar to other courses in the sample. Finally, employability is enhanced, as evidenced by feedback from experience at assessment centres, first and second round interview stages, and offers of employment.