{"id":75393,"date":"2021-05-24T18:52:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T22:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=75393"},"modified":"2021-05-25T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:20:47","slug":"since-launching-in-january-2021-instructors-have-sold-over-1-million-worth-of-courses-on-maven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/05\/24\/since-launching-in-january-2021-instructors-have-sold-over-1-million-worth-of-courses-on-maven\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Since launching in January 2021, instructors have sold over $1 million worth of courses on Maven.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/maven-a16z-edtech-creator-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A16z is betting $20 million on Maven, an ed tech and creator economy mashup<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from protocol.com by Penelope Blackwell<br \/>\n<em>Since launching in January 2021, instructors have sold over $1 million worth of courses on Maven.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A little over a decade ago, Gagan Biyani founded Udemy, one of the main platforms that popularized massive open online courses. Now, he&#8217;s back with a new idea that jams together ed tech and the creator economy, and he thinks it can help more students stick out their online learning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">His new company, Maven, is focused on cohort-based learning. An expert tutor with a large online following leads an online course for a group of learners. The students join and move through content at the same pace, but much of the learning happens peer-to-peer as the students share their experiences over the web.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;There are thousands of experts, creators, and practitioners around the world who have valuable knowledge to share but aren&#8217;t traditional professors, and we think this is the best way for creators to monetize over the next decade,&#8221; said Biyani. &#8220;We&#8217;re creating the university of the future, built around these 21st-century professors.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>If adjunct faculty members want to go a different way in order to try their hand at making a lot more money, institutions of traditional higher education better look out!<\/strong> Especially if this new\/alternative approach picks up steam! Such institutions have been paying extremely low rates for adjunct faculty members. And because these folks aren&#8217;t tenured faculty members, they rarely get much of a say in the strategies and directions that their institutions set and pursue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">With lifelong learning now a requirement, this type of alternative will be on an increasing number of peoples&#8217; radars out there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58732 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Radar-DSCPurchased.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a radar\" width=\"50%\" height=\"50%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Radar-DSCPurchased.jpg 443w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Radar-DSCPurchased-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A16z is betting $20 million on Maven, an ed tech and creator economy mashup &#8212; from protocol.com by Penelope Blackwell Since launching in January 2021, instructors have sold over $1 million worth of courses on Maven. Excerpt: A little over a decade ago, Gagan Biyani founded Udemy, one of the main platforms that popularized massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,322,842,174,86,209,115,346,343,419,180,119,46,102,7,838,510,228,15,505,239,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-adjunct-faculty","category-alternatives","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-distance-education","category-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-preferences","category-lifelong-learning","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75393"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75399,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75393\/revisions\/75399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}