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1. THE BEGINNING
This innovation came to life when…
UNSW Associate Professor Richard Buckland found that his students were bored and unmotivated by all the existing online learning platforms. Richard teamed up with some UNSW alumni to develop a new kind of online learning platform.
2. WHAT & HOW
The purpose of this innovation is to…
OpenLearning is a social and collaborative online learning platform that motivates and engages students to learn and help others.
It does this by…
Building a community around the course through a range of features such as ubiquitous commenting, keeping track of progress, gamification, rich activities and group work. Teachers can easily create their courses on the OpenLearning Platform to take advantage of these features.
3. PURPOSE & BENEFITS
This innovation improves on what came before because…
It provides a far better learning experience to the student and better interaction and engagement for the teacher.
4. COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
In the past, this problem was solved by…
Face-to-face learning in small groups; however it is increasingly difficult to get everyone in the same place at the same time.
Its predecessors/competitors include…
Blackboard, Moodle, Coursera, Desire2Learn, Udacity, EdX
5. TARGET MARKET
This innovation is made for…
Teachers, professors, organisations and companies looking to teach/train people online.
6. DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY
It is available for sale through…
Software as a service application available through openlearning.com.
Our marketing strategy is to…
Have a range of engaging, free, open online courses that benefit the world and increase familiarity with our platform.
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