Curious wants to turn teachers into the web’s next wave of entrepreneurs

by Ki Mae Heussner, GigaOm

When Curious launched this spring, its focus was offering lifelong learners a marketplace of bite-sized lessons on everything from beer brewing and salsa dancing to calculus and coding. Now, it’s upping its attention on the other side of the learning equation: teachers. For the past few months, in an effort to ensure quality classes, the site has recruited its teachers and given them in-house support to create their classes. On Friday, the company said it had opened up its service so that teachers anywhere can create classes of their own. “We think there are thousands of things to teach and ways to teach and you’ll never be able to build all the content yourself,” said CEO and founder Justin Kitch. “This is all in the name of helping teachers become entrepreneurs.”

http://gigaom.com/2013/10/25/lifelong-learning-startup-curious-wants-to-turn-teachers-into-the-webs-next-wave-of-entrepreneurs/

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