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A Single Clearinghouse For Online Learning
The Problem: Different types of free educational media are spread over the internet.
ONE PLACE TO LEARN ON THE WEB
IS ANYONE ELSE DOING IT?
Free Athena organizes, and promotes them all on a single site.
Our Solution: Bring all the different types of free educational media together on one site, and editorially promote the start-up universities.
Free Athena aggregates open university courses, documentary films, Ted Talks, podcasts, interviews, and panel discussions on one website that is categorize by subject, and curated so the consumer to learn about anything for free. Our home page is a magazine that promotes vanguard ed-sites.
Lots of websites offer free educational media. None are putting it together in one place.
-iTunes University and Academic Earth house open university courses.
-Top Documentary and Documentary Storm stream documentary movies.
-Kahn Academy offers primarily science and math lectures.
-Ted Talks website is full of their convention speeches.
-Coursera and Udemy host real-time academic courses from top professors.
WHAT DO YOU WE NEED?
Free Athena needs funding to code the website, to curate the videos, manage the editorial section of the site, and market the site. We have branded and wireframed Free Ahtena; our product is free because the videos are openly hosted by sites such as YouTube.
WHAT DOES THE SECTOR LOOK LIKE?
In 2011, education-technology investments grew by 28%. Venture capital-ists invested $429 million in 82 education-technology deals last year.
There are presently two types of education websites:
1. Aggregators of existing “free”documentaries and “open” university courses already hosted online.
2. Start-ups that partner with professors of major universities to offer real-time courses online.
HOW MUCH ARE WE LOOKING AT?
$25,000 will allow us to code the website. Our team of three will be able to manage the site in the short them, until we create a revenue stream through advertising. $125,000 will market us properly for two years.
We are improving on something that is already profitable. We expect to be profitable soon.
WHAT KIND OF RETURN CAN YOU EXPECT?
WHAT’S THE ONLINE EDUCATION MARKET LIKE?
The two types of education sites are doing similar business. The Aggrega-tors are slightly outpacing The Start-Up in terms of unique visitors per month.
AGGREGATORS - Unique Visitors Per Month
Top Documentary - 280,000
Open Culture - 250,000
Academic Earth - 62,000
Documentary Heaven - 40,000
START-UPS - Unique Visitors Per Month
Coursera - 125,000
Udemy - 62,000
Udacity- 48,000
EdX - 20,000
Free Athena aggregates both free documentaries and open university courses on one site. We also pro- mote the education start-ups by featuring original articles on our Magazine home-page. Instead of trying to trap customers on our site, we offer them all the free curriculum on the web, and refer them if another institution offers something we cannot.
HOW WILL FREE ATHENA MAKE MONEY?
SHORT TERM -
Banner Advertising and University Referrals, OR Nothing
In the short-term we have an opportunity to make money the same way other aggregators do but we’d prefer to keep the site clear of ads while we build a strong, large community.
MEDIUM TERM -
Permission Based Marketing, Tasteful Ads, Referrals to Start-Ups,
Once we have created a community, we plan to permission based market through our newsletter. We will also begin to solicite customer referrals for the other education start-ups. Further, we will begin to consider taste-ful, relevant advertising on our site.
LONG TERM
Amazon Associates (Product Referral)
All documentary films, and university courses have authors, professors, hosts, and writers who have books and other products for sale. We
HOW DO THEY MAKE MONEY?
Aggregators make money through banner advertising and university referrals. Start-ups are on running on investment capital.
plan to refer customers to the books, videos and other products that are related to these authors, and to the subject matters in which they display an interest.
WHAT DOES THE SITE LOOK LIKE?
We’re glad you asked. There are three main sections
1. The Magazine Home Page
2. The Browse Section
3. The Video View Page
The following three pages of this document are these wireframes.
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Free Athena is a place to watch videos to learn about any subject for free.
1. Choose a video suggestion from our Articles Page.
2. Browse the drop-down menus to search our content by subject.
3. Click “Videos” on the header to browse Free Athena content
4. Submit an article for publication and recieve a by-line on this page.
The Kahn Academy, who create ten minute videos for all subjects announce this week they will o!er 50,000 new videos on subjects as varied as fencing, and dolphin habitat restoration. We all know a thing or two about The American Revolution, but unfortunately a thing or two doesn’t really cut it. Professor Glass, a former stand-up commedian is set on providing a new narrative of our nation’s founding story. Instead of listing dates and
relying on the stories we all “know”, she invents humorous tales of everyday people, and follows them up with her own bellyful of laughter. These stories are real and much more illustrative the. horse trip of Paul
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