{"id":28220,"date":"2012-03-30T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=28220"},"modified":"2012-03-30T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:55:03","slug":"will-this-type-of-business-model-be-ported-to-education-related-marketplacesexchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/03\/30\/will-this-type-of-business-model-be-ported-to-education-related-marketplacesexchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"Will this type of business model be ported to educationally-related marketplaces\/exchanges?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Not that this is anything new&#8230;but the business model\/strategy that FiftyThree, Inc. is following with their <em>Paper<\/em> app is very intriguing to me (and caused me to reflect, again, on the changing business models within higher ed)<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">People can obtain the basic app for free<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>To get an idea of the basic interface &amp; functionality.<strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Additional functionality costs $<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nPeople can purchase additional tools from the in-app store: such as Sketch, Write, Outline, and Color.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">As I was reflecting on this business model, I wondered&#8230;<strong>will this be a part of our future educational marketplaces\/exchanges?<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Lynda.com (and many others as well I suppose) already does something similar to this by providing prospective students with a few modules &#8212; for free &#8212; but then requires a subscription for accessing the rest of the content\/modules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">So&#8230;<strong>what if a student could bop into a &#8220;class&#8221; to get a feel for what the content was like &#8212; and perhaps the instructor\/professor as well &#8212; before they ante up for additional information\/learning opportunities\/content?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Not that this is anything new&#8230;but the business model\/strategy that FiftyThree, Inc. is following with their Paper app is very intriguing to me (and caused me to reflect, again, on the changing business models within higher ed) People can obtain the basic app for free To get an idea of the basic interface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[72,510,449,239],"tags":[606,598,802,782,693,251],"class_list":["post-28220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-s-christian","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-marketplaces","category-new-business-models","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-exchanges","tag-learning-from-the-living-class-room","tag-marketplaces","tag-new-business-models","tag-new-business-models-in-he"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28220"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28236,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28220\/revisions\/28236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}