Teach The People, a Facebook application and fbFund finalist that allows users to create learning communities, has launched to the public. Alongside the public launch, the startup has also annouced its partnerships with The Learning Annex (which offers lessons from celebrities), Destiny Image, and Quinnipiac University’s Professional Athlete Transition Institute which will help initially populate the site with content.
At first glance Teach The People strongly resembles Facebook Groups, but offers a number of enhancements that make the platform more suitable for teaching. Each community instructor can upload documents, media, and online webcasts. The platform also will support premium content, offering an integrated payment system that allows instructors to charge for their online lessons.
Users will make use of a Digg-like voting system to request that their favorite instructors cover topics they’re interested in. And to ensure that the content available on the site will actually be worth paying for, Teach The People is planning to offer a certification process to instructors for around $50. The site will also be implementing a rating system.
Teach The People originally launched at last year’s TechCrunch40 as a standalone site, but is now shifting its focus to its Facebook application. The company was one of 25 winners (out of 600 applicants) to win $25,000 from the fbfund, and is in the running to win an additional $225,000 this December.
The site will face plenty of competition in the online-learning space, with competitors including Grockit and Brightstorm.
The logo looks like the Ubuntu one.
Uh, yeah. Ditto that. What’s the deal? Related somehow?
Was gonna say the same thing !..
No relation to ubuntu!
Do they share a logo designer?
hahaha…. !!
They STOLE Ubuntu’s logo!! Not cool
Congrats to Josh and the rest of the team!
thanks nick!
Congrats Jason! Glad to see you guys finally go live with Teach The People! And congrats on the fbFund win.
Gary Gil
CEO
Podclass.com
Okay students, lesson number one: Let’s learn how to create a logo.
Its cool that their is lots of choice now for people in the learning space.
I will be interested to see how Teach th People handle the certification process to determine who is eligble to be instructors.
Please contact us with any questions or concerns. Our certification process will be launching in the next 2 months!
its about time someone starts chasing those losers at blackboard
Our sentiments exactly!
Will you have audio – video session too ?
I have been waiting for TeachthePeople since long. But I would say its not upto the mark. Not worth the wait . There are plenty of services which do better than TTP.
Ninja, we already have video, audio, and live video available.
Bigben – it is just the beginning, once we close up the FB Fund, our product roadmap is pretty awesome.
Jason, very nice work. We launched http://www.studentsknow.com in beta a few months ago along with a Facebook application as well. Community lives on the website, but full video playing, feeds and updates are via Facebook. Would love to chat.
Many years back, I have thought of something like this before and it was 4 years later that I decided to give it a try. That is why i came up with http://www.iknow2.net
I know at this stage, it is very basic. But if this thing can take off well, I am thinking of upgrading the platform.
If anyone feels like giving feedbacks, you are more than welcome.
Thanks in advance.