Ask HN: E-Learning Startup

Re:Ask HN: E-Learning Startup by babyshake on Monday March 02, 2009 @05:38PM (#500712)

Now is a very ripe time for disruptive innovation in the e-learning space. This is especially true as the raw stuff of learning - think video lectures, wikis, forums - is increasingly accessible for free, while college tuition rates keep rising.

However, the key phrase there is "disruptive innovation". Perhaps you may be able to serve the lower end of the market, such as tutors and individual students, schools be damned. And once you do manage to get some traction, you're likely to have a lot more success down the road with institutions.

The preeminent scholar in the field of disruptive innovation has actually just published a book specifically about education:

http://www.amazon.com/Disrupting-Class-Disruptive-Innovation...

I've been reading it in the last few days and publishing some of my favorite passages to my blog:

http://bit.ly/mad82

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Re:Ask HN: E-Learning Startup by mcdowall on Monday March 02, 2009 @05:56PM (#500747)

Im actually in the process of working on a site for this at the moment, theres a couple of sites already up and running but in my opinion still much more work needed to offer a compelling all in solution

Hopefully I will be back here in a month or so to demo it!

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Re:Ask HN: E-Learning Startup by zxcvb on Monday March 02, 2009 @06:16PM (#500771)

I was thinking more in the way of creating a product that would be installed on the universitys server and hosted on their intranet, just like traditional e-learning suites.

I can't imagine many schools would want to keep their data on a third party server.

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Re:Ask HN: E-Learning Startup by goodgoblin on Monday March 02, 2009 @08:38PM (#500921)

Maybe post the idea on Mark Cuban's open source funding page - see what he thinks.

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