choices...
I've been looking around on the web, as one does, looking for other elearning companies doing something similar, and aside from tteach, which has yet to launch, can't really find anything - let me know if anyone finds anything out there similar.
By the end of the year, we'll have finished most of the basic structure of tutorom.com, although I have a dozen ideas for lesson types. I don't intend to compete with the likes of Articulate's products, but I'm sure there are plenty of simple lesson types that teachers and instructors can use, and that's where we will spend some time playing.
We are converting the swf modules for education into tutorom type slides, which means teachers can login, clone the lessons and change them as they see fit. They can also use the library of swf animations, graphics etc in their own lessons as well. All completely free.
Which reminds me. People keep asking me how I intend to make money from all this. Well...if the odd visitor signs up for a subscription to the excellent VTC software learning library, we can keep it free for the future. We'll see how it goes.
For anyone who wants to say hello, I shall be at Bett (9-12 Jan) in UK at Olympia (on a tiny stand with a big plasma, probably around the software section), and on a slightly bigger stand at Macworld San Francisco (15-18 Jan). I'll be a bit jetlagged but hey..that's normal. My lead developers Sajith and Mathew from our offices in Kochi will be there as well.
By the end of the year, we'll have finished most of the basic structure of tutorom.com, although I have a dozen ideas for lesson types. I don't intend to compete with the likes of Articulate's products, but I'm sure there are plenty of simple lesson types that teachers and instructors can use, and that's where we will spend some time playing.
We are converting the swf modules for education into tutorom type slides, which means teachers can login, clone the lessons and change them as they see fit. They can also use the library of swf animations, graphics etc in their own lessons as well. All completely free.
Which reminds me. People keep asking me how I intend to make money from all this. Well...if the odd visitor signs up for a subscription to the excellent VTC software learning library, we can keep it free for the future. We'll see how it goes.
For anyone who wants to say hello, I shall be at Bett (9-12 Jan) in UK at Olympia (on a tiny stand with a big plasma, probably around the software section), and on a slightly bigger stand at Macworld San Francisco (15-18 Jan). I'll be a bit jetlagged but hey..that's normal. My lead developers Sajith and Mathew from our offices in Kochi will be there as well.
posted by mark vernon at 9:38 AM
2 Comments:
Mark,
I found three more startups doing something simililar to Tutorom, they are:
1. techbits: http://www.teachbits.com/
2. studytag: http://www.studytag.com
3. skillsfeed: http://skillsfeed.com
Seems that each has its own plus and minus.
Hope it helps.
thanks for the links - I had a look at them all and there are a couple of things I'll probably add to our development, such as allowing comments for lessons or courses. Not many are using different lesson styles to create content, and I think this is where we shall differ, in our range of different ways of presenting information.
teachbits seems ok, but they ask for money as you create your account, so this seems like a pure money making venture - studytag I liked, and will get into that a bit more, and skillsfeed seems to have a major bug in registration, using 2 emails to try and register, so I never could create an account. Does anyone in the development team of these companies actually use the system themselves?...:-)
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