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"The site doesn’t have any current plans to pay contributors, but to help incentivize users to write high-quality courses, Codecademy aims to provide significan
by pg_bot 15y ago
"The site doesn’t have any current plans to pay contributors, but to help incentivize users to write high-quality courses, Codecademy aims to provide significant exposure to the best lesson creators."
You should figure out a way to do this right now, you have a product that makes me say "shut up and take my money" and I have no way of giving it to you. Instead I give money to your competitors (codeschool, treehouse, etc.) for similar services. If you have already developed the platform to create courses open it up so people can make content and get paid.
- paul7986 15y agoEtc = http://trybloc.com http://trybloc.com, http://CodePupil.com http://CodePupil.com ... Anyone know others ?
- pg_bot 15y agohttp://rubymonk.com http://rubymonk.com
- petercooper 15y agohttp://udemy.com/ http://udemy.com/ http://codelesson.com/ http://codelesson.com/ (from both ends, earn money as a course director, spend money as the student :-))
- Creegan 15y agoPersonally I haven't tried it yet but I saw an interview Kevin Rose did to the founder on Foundation and the idea seems promising (also gave great insight on how to rate and encourage your employees but thats off-topic) It kinds of add badges, achievements, challenges and more stuff to try and make the learning experience and process a more enjoyable activity. Treehouse - http://teamtreehouse.com/ http://teamtreehouse.com/
- stfu 15y agoExactly. I really love CodeYear look forward to every Monday and the new lessons. But some non-profit approach would be a nice option so that people could donate money directly to the course creators. On the other hand the lack of other courses makes me stick to it and not switch horses all the time.
- MaxGabriel 15y agoI remember, I think this was in an RSAnimate video from Dan Pinker[1], and one interesting fact was that once you offered people money to do something, they had far less motivation to accomplish the task. I think offering money for the lessons creates the wrong tone--I'd personally rather create something for free than have a possibility of getting paid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
- pg_bot 15y agoI think you have framed the problem incorrectly. If you are given the option to either make your course paid or fee you include people who are motivated for different reasons. If you wanted to create a free class, would the fact of having an option to create a paid course motivate you any less? I think that codecademy should create a structure similar to Apple's ibooks platform where you have the option to create paid content if you so wish.
- bmcmanus 15y agoCodecademy is smart - they realize that collecting use/accomplishment data on high-quality lessons carries much more upside than trying to sell the content created on their platform.
- betterth 15y agoHow is this smart? Either you get money directly, or your left trying to monetize -accomplishment- data? Are we expecting the ad-market targeting newbie programmers to explode or something?
- itmag 15y agoWhat would be a good way to have crowdsourced content that pays its creators a fair share? Honest question; I am looking for insight in this area.
- mw63214 15y agoPayment could be tied to a semi-annual or quarterly code contest where students compete in different "events". This could all be live-code-streamed. Judges are a collection of ______ (fill in the blank). The better the students in a particular course do, the more money that course creator gets. Funds for this prize could even be kickstarted, or funded by non-profits in the free-education domain, or through other means (prizes could even be free services from relevant start-ups?). Just an idea for a jumping-off point.
- VikingCoder 15y ago...allow people to add a flatr button to their content? Just one thought.