Want to do the Chinese version of Lynda, Geek College has been sig and Blue Chi Chong cast 22 million

According to the Geek Academy's scoop on 36 Krypton, the Geek Academy has received a 2200-dollar B-round financing, with the investment in SIG (Haina Asia) and blue-chi ventures. Before this round of financing, the Geek Academy has also received a round of funding from the blue-hit venture.

As we reported earlier, Geek College is an IT career online education platform aimed at it practitioners continuing to learn the needs of their professional skills, similar in style to Lynda and Pluralsight, where all courses are developed, filmed, edited and produced by professional teachers hired by their own team. The new frequency of 2 to 4 doors is maintained every day.

Shan, founder of the College of Geeks, told me that after this round of financing, they would use the money for two things--to expand content--because the content in vocational education is the most critical, although the current geek College has produced a lot of its own content, including from Android to Cocos2d-x to iOS, But they want to expand the content to more categories, and future it common web development technology (such as PHP, etc.) courses they will be made.

Shan says he's very serious about online education, and he thinks that education is very solemn, the teaching of all knowledge content should be carried out in a progressive way (by bringing a new knowledge point from an old point of view to teach the students, rather than teaching a new knowledge point with three newer points of knowledge to confused the students), This is why they choose all courses to be made by their own team of teachers, not outside lecturers, to ensure that the content is designed to be educated, understood and accepted by the students.

The second financing inactive is to strengthen the team, the introduction of algorithms and data mining technical personnel. Shan said that the most important thing for a professional it online education is how to understand online, understand education, and understand careers. What you need to think about online is how to make learning more efficient through technology, that is to do only online and offline education can not do things, such as the student's user data statistics, statistics to the student's learning situation, learning status, so as to give students to recommend suitable for his expansion of knowledge courses, So that he can approach the state of personalized learning.

And when it comes to personalized learning, whether it can be personalized in fact, mainly see the Geek College overall system structure of the knowledge point of granularity and how many knowledge points can establish how effective relationship between, When they have a deeper understanding of the connections between knowledge points (for example, what is the connection between Android knowledge and iOS development knowledge?) is to learn how Android can learn about iOS's progressive relationships, or coordinate relationships, and so on, to build a good enough model to make it possible to personalize learning. This is why they need to introduce algorithms and technology mining technicians.

Since January this year on-line, the data on the Geek College has 120,000 users, more than 300 courses. and its main profit model from the membership system of the charging mode (30 yuan/month, 260 yuan/year, etc.). In charge mode, Shan also said that he did not want to charge a single course fee but to sell the time limit of study, is to allow everyone to complete the course, so that developers can always keep their professional skills competitive. In addition, although the current geek College is not involved in the vertical recruitment business at the back end, it has started experimenting with customised courses (which have previously been in collaboration with the obsessed web) and will be directed to the enterprise by students who have completed the course.