Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Global 2014 by David Bebko, CEO and Co-Founder, Crowdworks. Join us for CSW Global 2015! More Information: http://crowdsourcingweek.com/ and https://twitter.com/CrowdWeek

1. When Disruptive Innovations Collide:
The Power of Crowdsourced
Education
David Bebko
CrowdWorks, Inc.
david@crowdworksinc.com

2. Expensive,
complicated,
centralized, and
inaccessible to many…
...more affordable,
convenient, simple to
use, and accessible
Disruptive
Innovation.
ProductPerformance
Time
Incumbants nearly always win
New entrants nearly always win

3. “By 2019, 50% of all
classes for grades K-12
will be delivered online
in some form or
fashion”
- Clayton Christensen
Online
Education.
● $55 billion dollar industry, forecasted
to double in the next 12 months
● Massively Open Online Courses
(MOOCs) have attracted more than
8 million students
● Khan academy videos receive more
than 10 million views per month
● > 900 million people have watched a
YouTube video with the purpose of
learning something
● Harvard Business School has
stopped teaching accounting,
instead has students take an online
course from a Brigham Young
University professor
● The average online learner is 34
years old
Traditional
Blended
Web
Facilitated
Distance

4. Crowd
learning.
Purpose is to help
learners to achieve
their learning
objectives.
Learning may be
academic or non-
academic
“Teachers” may be
academic professionals
or subject matter
experts
Crowd
sourcing
Online
learning
Crowdlearning

5. Web 1.0 offered us
text-based learning.
Web 2.0 offered us rich
media learning.
The next wave is peer-
to-peer live learning.
A worthy
category.

6. Opportunities
abound.
Crowdlearning can tap
into a latent online
labor pool of
extraordinary
magnitude...and skill
Developing markets:
supply of teachers to
meet demand from
learners
Mature markets:
specialization, mass
customization, real time
bespoke learning
442Million
the number of teaching hours generated if
just 1% of internet users spend 1% of
their online time per year helping others to
learn.
200Million
the number of people in the world today
who have no access to high school.
190Million
the number of students
in China learning
English today.
6.2 Million
the number of high
school kids in the U.S.
who are doing
homework everyday
without a parent home
to help.

7. Online learning is not
new, but deeply
entrenched thinking
about “proper”
education is arguably
the most resilient
business model in
history.
The reality that’s
coming to realization:
how people learn today
is worlds away from
how most educators
still teach.
Crowdlearning
Challenges.
● Perception of quality
● Quality
● Student motivation
● Outcomes of value
● Business model

8. Noble
Purpose.
In today’s global,
connected world, the
crowd is our village.
“It takes a village to raise a child”

9. Thank you!
David Bebko
CrowdWorks, Inc.
david@crowdworksinc.com