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For the teachers whose calling is teaching, I can see them moving to this part-time: https://outschool.com https://outschool.com My wife and I were concerned a
by hosh 6y ago
For the teachers whose calling is teaching, I can see them moving to this part-time: https://outschool.com https://outschool.com
My wife and I were concerned about our daughter getting isolated. We don't want her on social media, but we do think it is important for her to connect with her affinity group, and explore her passions. I found out about outschool recently, and it looked like exactly what we needed to address this.
The classes and activities on outschool don't conform to any national standard. Instead, teachers, both accredited and non-accredited, can teach subjects they are interested in teaching. In turn, technology is used to connect interested students together with the teacher.
There are some really unusual things that connects different disciplines together in a more wholistic way. Such as a class on world architecture using Mindcraft.
Teacher set their own pricing at a minimum of $10 for a course, and the platform takes 30%. Some are prerecorded and some are live. The intended audience if k-12.
- seniorgarcia 6y agoSo, keeping my child engaged for 5 days a week would cost about 150$ and 45$ go to the platform (judging from glancing over class duration/classes per week and cost). Can somebody tell me what value outschool adds aside from being an agency?
- somethoughts 6y agoCuration of content creators. A presumption that efforts to create a brand will lead to long term quality and consistency in content and creators who are controversial will be removed. You can do the equivalent of this using Youtube videos - the onus is on the parent to figure out how to block Youtube from auto-suggesting/auto-playing click bait viral videos after the tutorial you want the child to watch is over.
- cheschire 6y agoWhat's wrong with the only value being an agency? Do you not approve of B2B generally speaking? If teachers didn't have a service like this to use, they would each have to find their own way to attract the attention of potential students.
- seniorgarcia 6y agoI don't care, I don't have children. I think it's interesting that 30% is evil when it comes to app stores or food delivery but with outschool.com suddenly it is well deserved. As someone from Germany I also think that 600€ for "entertaining" one child (with 180€ going to a platform provider) is crazy. I don't have kids though so in the end if that's what the market rate ends up at apparently it is either what parents are willing to pay or at least it is what market providers presume to be a realistic rate (and we will see how soon the marketplace will run out of money).