Teach The People
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Teach The People is a social network built around online education. The site lets anyone with specific subject knowledge or a useful skill set share with the Teach The People communities. Users get to create individual profiles and contribute content to topics such as computer programming, math or “Bob Marley’s Influence on R&B Music”.

The goal of Teach the People is not only to revolutionize online education, but to introduce a new model of education that provides a viable alternative to the traditional model offered by brick-and-mortar universities and their out-dated web components.

They plan on offering a free K-12 version of their service to private and public schools. The K-12 platform will operate on district, school, and course levels and is closed to the general Teach the People community. As students progress through each grade they will build a portfolio of their own work and a social network for collaborative learning that will serve them for years to come. As students graduate from high school their portfolios will be transferred to a general Teach The People profile where they can interact with a larger community over a wider range of topics.

The site encourages quality content by letting users become community creators and by giving users points for rating, referring friends and answering questions. Community creators help create content and run day-to-day community operations. They can charge other users fees for monthly community access, content views or content downloads. They can also share in site advertising revenues.

According to founder & CEO Jason Beckerman, the idea for Teach the People was born in November 2006 while he was watching a video lecture for his masters degree during a flight from New York to Boston. While watching the lecture Jason was inspired to make a streaming video network based around education. By the time the plane landed Jason had already formulated development plans for a web service similar to YouTube.

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