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Very friendly design - I'm really liking the feel, simplicity, clarity, and welcoming vibe to the entire site, well done. the concept is good and has value in

by apsurd 17y ago

Very friendly design - I'm really liking the feel, simplicity, clarity, and welcoming vibe to the entire site, well done. the concept is good and has value in my opinion (I signed up). I will have to give the content a go and see if the curriculum lives up to what I'd need/want. Thoughts on monetization? I ask because I'd hate to see my learning environment become littered with distracting ads.

alilja 17y ago
Freemium.
- apsurd 17y ago
  Education may be a tricky thing don't you think? If you charge the lesson creators they will want to charge the students to recoup costs/make money. This is fine but it changes the entire dynamic of the website. The "web 3.0" example lesson plan becomes a moot example. All this information is free and the target audience most certainly is not going to be compelled to pay for this type of content. So your new target market becomes people looking for and creating "marketable skills" type of content. Content like lynda.com etc. Content that makes it clear students will get a return on their money. I can see you building for traction and a lot of people setting up free lesson plans. Are these free lesson plan creators necessarily going to be the same market that would have a need for creating paid lesson plans? I think the concept is solid, just doing some off the cuff thought exploration - good luck.
  - leemhoffman 17y ago
    Your analysis is spot on, and our hypothesis is that if we can deliver a framework that makes online education much better, that there will be a variety of uses for it - everything from paid courses on SEO (in demand hi-tech skills), to free courses on fun things like "MacBeth in an hour" (launching later this week). Our plan right now is to implement an app store like model where educators can create courses for free, but if they want to charge for them, we get a % of the revenue.

by apsurd 17y ago

alilja 17y ago

Freemium.

apsurd 17y ago
Education may be a tricky thing don't you think? If you charge the lesson creators they will want to charge the students to recoup costs/make money. This is fine but it changes the entire dynamic of the website. The "web 3.0" example lesson plan becomes a moot example. All this information is free and the target audience most certainly is not going to be compelled to pay for this type of content. So your new target market becomes people looking for and creating "marketable skills" type of content. Content like lynda.com etc. Content that makes it clear students will get a return on their money. I can see you building for traction and a lot of people setting up free lesson plans. Are these free lesson plan creators necessarily going to be the same market that would have a need for creating paid lesson plans? I think the concept is solid, just doing some off the cuff thought exploration - good luck.
- leemhoffman 17y ago
  Your analysis is spot on, and our hypothesis is that if we can deliver a framework that makes online education much better, that there will be a variety of uses for it - everything from paid courses on SEO (in demand hi-tech skills), to free courses on fun things like "MacBeth in an hour" (launching later this week). Our plan right now is to implement an app store like model where educators can create courses for free, but if they want to charge for them, we get a % of the revenue.