Lynda.com for Open Source Learning
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Lynda.com is the most successful education materials site, with revenue of $100M. OSE is interested in doing an open source materials version.
Challenges of Lynda.com
- Keeping content updated is a challenge - [1]
OSE Version
- Because platform is open source and source files are included - continuing updates can be made.
Proposed Governance Model
Open source contributors have free access to all materials based on a gift economy model.
Subscribers pay for content.
Contributors get 90% of all revenue generated from their video. Lean Foundation keeps 10% for operations: funding developers, etc.
This contributes to the OSE Campus education.
Value-added can be in the form of Distillation: shortening and improving rapid-learning qualities of videos for faster learners.