Curious:線上學生視訊教學網是一個致力於為學生提供優秀教學視訊的網站,主要是幫助學生提高動手能力,內容主要涵蓋化學、攝影、數學、生活經驗、哲學、運動專案教學等等。
Curious網站上的所有視訊均是有知名教師錄製,所有視訊並不是全部免費,當然免費的有很多,所涉及的內容也相當豐富,國內使用者翻譯後可以當作很經典的學生教學案例來使用,不同的教學方式對學生有很多幫助,這裡就不再闡述了,總是很多先進的教學方式不妨多參考國外,中西結合才是硬道理。
線上教育平臺 Curious.com 近日宣佈 B 輪獲 1500 萬美元投資,估值未知,據 Re/code 訊息,該輪由 GSV Capital 領投, Redpoint Ventures 及前蘋果董事 Bill Campbell 等跟投,GSV Capital 的 Michael Moe 也將加入 Curious.com 董事會。成立自 2012 年,截至目前,Curious.com 累計融資額達 2250 萬美元。
Curious.com 是一家氣質獨特的線上教育平臺,內容以使用者自己製作的“How-to” 類視訊為主,你幾乎可以找到生活中各個領域的教程,從“焊接基礎”到“ 莎莎舞 (salsa) 教程”,更有“珠寶製作教程”和“磨刀祕訣”等等。相較 Udemy、Khan Academy、Lynda.com 等,它的最大差別在於,Curious 更追求便利和即時性,教學視訊較短、內容切得更小,學生可以自由安排學習時間,它同時也有自己的虛擬貨幣 Curious Coin,讓老師更方便的推廣、分享及貨幣化自己的課程。內測 5 個月,便已經累積了上萬名使用者。
At Curious we believe in lifelong learning. Learning for its own sake. Learning that happens beyond classrooms, and not only in academic subjects (unless you count beer brewing, pipe soldering, and organic gardening as academic). Learning as a necessity of living.
At Curious we also believe great teachers are as valuable to society as great business leaders or academic thinkers. We wonder why there are hundreds of high-tech ways to share silly photos, and military-grade technology can help us find our friends at a bar, but teachers have few quality tools to help them succeed online.
We believe teachers are some of society’s greatest entrepreneurs and should be treated as such.
We also believe that videos of cats dancing the Macarena, and super-slo-mo exploding watermelons are really cool, but not the kind of online learning we’re talking about. And that Justin’s new band only reminds us a little bit of this. But that’s another story…