How Educators Can Become Edupreneurs
The EdTech (Educational Technology) market is growing, and what better place for those with existing teaching experience to seek extra work or a slight change of career?
The first step is research: study the niches and opportunities, determine an area of interest based on experiences and skills. Finding mentors for an EdTech startup business is a bonus. Some thoughts on EdTech opportunities:
- Collaborate. Instead of going it alone, form an EdTech startup with other disenchanted educators.
- Repurpose courses. Take existing curriculum materials and repurpose it for online learning in the form of ebooks, webinars and self-study courses. If you have the online infrastructure, create them as MOOCs — Massive Open Online Courses. Just make sure you create original material for your courses and other learning materials.
- Build language learning apps. This is a popular EdTech niche, though some might feel it’s already getting overcrowded.
- Use gamification. Create Web and mobile learning apps that feel like games by implementing levels, goals, etc., and offers rewards and badges for accomplishments. AND…….
Check out this wonderful infographic to know more.
This infographic originally appeared here.
