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anybody Can Be a Teacher at Skillshare courses, an Online School Susan Orlean was considering giving up teaching. She'd taught classes at New York University and in the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College but was finding it difficult to maintain a consistent class schedule while fulfilling her obligations as a staff writer for The New Yorker. "I only started thinking, well, perhaps there is a different way to do this that does not tie me to a physical location," she said. Skillshare is an online video system that enables anyone to sign up and teach a class. The company has proved adept at recruiting experts to educate on its website. Aside from Ms. Orlean's class on creative nonfiction, the website includes a course on visual storytelling in the design maven Debbie Millman and also a marketing course taught by the entrepreneur Seth Godin. At one point, it even provided screenwriting instruction from James Franco. The corporation's business model does not depend solely on experts. They envision the website for a kind of educational YouTube: If you want to teach anyone anything -- how to use Photoshop, or perhaps how to chug a beer more efficiently -- Skillshare wants to host your classes. Since the platform was opened last September, the number of classes offered has nearly doubled to approximately 1,000. Skillshare has raised over $10 million in venture capital. https://shillsharecoupon.tumblr.com/post/163634305140/skillshare-online-learning-platform pay $10 per month for unlimited access to Skillshare courses, and 850,000 are signed up, the company says. Often, thousands will sign up for a single course. Jake Bartlett, a freelance motion-graphics artist that teaches digital visual effects, '' says about 1,200 students signed up for his latest course. Nearly 2,000 students are enrolled in Ms. Millman's visual storytelling course, her first on the site. https://skillsharereview.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/the-skillshare-full-review/ Keep Retirees in the Know MARCH 19, 2015 BITS BLOG ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story Teachers with at least 25 students can enter a "partner program" in which they are paid depending on the amount of subscribing pupils in their classes, and for projects people students submit. Skillshare claims that on average, teachers in the program are paid $3,500 annually. Those with fewer than 25 pupils aren't paid. Skillshare, which is established in New York, was developed in 2011 as an offline enterprise, a form of alternative education that could teach practical skills to pupils in local communities. However, the legwork involved was taxing, so in the summer of 2012 the company moved online. Last fall, it opened to anybody that wanted to teach a course. The provider's chief executive, Michael Karnjanaprakorn, said that opening the platform was essential in addressing how teaching and learning work online. Photo Michael Karnjanaprakorn, the chief executive of Skillshare. Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times "Let's say The New York Times is the newspaper, Twitter is a short form of communication, Facebook is a city center and AOL built the roads. What we think is getting built right today is your hospital and the school. And in order for all those things to be built, they have to keep in mind the way the Internet works." He said building the Internet's school meant letting users determine the classes they want to instruct and accept without creating many financial obstacles. The manner Skillshare accommodates its students academically and financially sets it apart from its online competitors. Companies like Coursera and Udacity prepare pupils for the work force in a more familiar fashion. For the most part, Coursera hews closely to traditional college courses, and Udacity offers "nanodegrees" for digital skills that will appeal to prospective employers in the tech industry. Actually https://medium.com/@aks.srm28/know-more-about-skill-share-programe-b59cb1a8724c , an online education platform which is also open to anyone who would like to educate, allows instructors to set prices, which can make registration in multiple courses difficult for students on a budget. The majority of the topics that Skillshare offers resemble the abilities someone might pick up after spending a couple of semesters in the organization of art school pupils. Colleen Sullivan Leh, 46, a graphic designer in Lake Orion, Mich., has subscribed to Skillshare for around a year and has taken classes on typography and photography. She said she liked being able to put her own pace without being appraised. "It works for me since there are no grades involved," she said. Since it does not field more traditional courses or award mark or credentials, Skillshare is vulnerable to criticism that it masquerades as a learning stage while it wastes users' time and money. But individuals who have taken issue with different forms of "edutainment" are more accepting of a stage which teaches practical skills. Nathan Jurgenson, a graduate student in sociology at the University of Maryland and also a specialist in Internet culture, sees Skillshare as a "stopgap measure," essential to an economy in which skills can be more valuable than diplomas. "It's much more suited to our economy than going into a grad program," he said. "What Skillshare is doing is more in line with that which our precarious work force needs." "The in-class dynamic is something that is quite important to me, therefore I've been really reluctant to get on the online teaching bandwagon," Ms. Millman said. However, Ms. Orlean discovered that in a minumum of one way, teaching at Skillshare was more positive than that in traditional academia. "I always had great pupils, but I also think that they're there to fulfill their credit requirements therefore there is a little part of obligation," she said. "Whereas people that are signing on for Skillshare really want to do it. And they don't get anything for it except learning.