Make the students ' spare notes valuable

Absrtact: I wrote this article because I chatted with a project called Cosmenu yesterday. This is a project for overseas students, founder Chen in Paris, he found that there are almost no teaching materials in European universities, the knowledge and property taught by class teachers remain

I wrote this article because I had a chat with a project called Cosmenu yesterday. This is an overseas student to do the project, founder Chen in Paris, he found that almost no teaching materials in European universities, class teachers taught the intellectual property all remain in the notes, if an international student has just gone abroad has not overcome the language problem, Then it is very likely that at the beginning of the study because the language level is not enough to keep pace with the teacher's progress, the final test to find that the review of the information is insufficient. So chen the "cosmenu" platform for European students and foreign students, in the hope that the students ' idle knowledge (that is, notes) will produce value.

Cosmenu's rule is simple, if you are confident that your learning notes will be of great help to others, then you can take it down, or directly upload the electronic word, PPT, TXT, and other versions to the Cosmenu platform, notes according to your own valuation of its price. If a student needs your notes, he has to pay for it, you can get 95% of the sales, and the other 5% to the Cosmenu platform. Once the number of notes on the Cosmenu platform continues to rise, different notes will be ranked to different quality levels because of the user's rating, and the pricing will tend to be reasonable.

In addition, Cosmenu also has a demand square, if you can't find the notes you need, you can publish the demand in the demand plaza, and other users to help you find; Cosmenu also has a question and answer platform that users can discuss based on the label of their notes, Currently Cosmenu's question and answer system is being integrated with the note system.

In fact, the "note" To do Kung fu is not only cosmenu, the United States has previously appeared flashnotes and Oneclass. Flashnotes also completed a 3.6 million dollar a round of financing in February this year, selling from initial notes and flashcards to help with memory, to develop later video tutorials (visual inspection is needed for science and engineering students who need to demonstrate). The greatest value of flashnotes is that it can form the atmosphere of mutual knowledge and help among students, just as Coursera advocates to answer questions between students, and the teacher is freed from the overwhelming answer--many times we don't need teachers, You can solve problems through self-study and discussion, and from this point of view, notes are a really good starting point, and if they can be completely structured, they may turn out to be the content of online education, instead of having to undergo a tedious and complicated production process.

Of course, note sales still need to adapt to local conditions, such as the European knowledge of copyright awareness, so they are more receptive to the purchase of notes, the United States, the environment has created relatively favorable conditions (such as textbooks are very expensive), but in the celestial word, not only the textbook, the teacher's focus is also many, It is estimated that this model will not acclimatized at home.