Yes, you are correct. This is why our platform will have several aspects encompassing the individualization of the learning material to particular needs and career goals of individual learners. All the learning material on the platform will be chunked up to the smallest meaningful segments and than our AI engine will propose to the prospective learner a mix&match he/she can take to achieve his/her learning goals.

Thank you for your kind words.

Our platform differentiates from BitDegree and Coursera in several important aspects:
– An integral part of the GLEDOS platform will be its AI engine that will continually analyze job posts and other employment related notices and, based on this information, it will create unique individualized learning pathways to its users depending on their career goals;
– GLEDOS platform will bring together formal (such as universities and colleges) and non-formal (such as Udemy) education providers;
– GLEDOS platform will offer nanoDegrees and microCredentials meaning that the learners will earn some kind of acknowledgment after completing the smallest meaningful segments of the learning materials and, based on that,  will be able to land a job quicker;
– We will invite platforms, such as Coursera, into partnership, so that their content will also be available on the GLEDOS platform.

Yes, our ambition is to crawl the job posts and other employment-related notices all over the world. That way, our AI engine will be able to recommend really up-to-date and relevant learning pathways for all kinds of career goals -- from those that will be very general and usual to highly specific and niche requirements and also region specific.

Some aspects of our model were a part of the initially planned reform dubbed the Bologna process which were not implemented then due to the tendency of the established higher education institutions to be cautious and more on the conservative side when it comes to reforms. Gledos will not compete with the established institutions, but we will supplement them in the sense that our platform will offer mainly already existing content, but repackaged and made more customizable and adaptable to the needs of the market in the modern age.
Why didn't we implement the idea some 15+ years ago? Simply because the technology then was not ripe for such a project. Blockchain was still to be invented, AI algorithms were still in their infancy and the computing power for both was not so readily available and accessible as it is nowadays.

Thank you for your kind words! We hope to transform the higher education to bring it in line with the 21st century needs.

You are absolutely correct that the higher education is also subjected to regulation. Gledos will not be a higher education institution, such as a university. Gledos will be platform which will enable already established and accredited higher education institutions to disseminate their learning material to a much wider, in fact a worldwide, audience.

There will be no requirement regarding the timeline of updates per se. However, the learning material that will be receiving best feedback from its users and the lecturers that will be highly rated will be preferred by the platform's AI engine and search engine and such courses will be more visible. So, the learning providers will be incentivized to keep their content up to date and in line with the highest quality standards.

Students (and other learners) will be able to mix and match their own curricula if they choose so. However, one of the main advantages of using the Gledos platform will be its AI engine which will put together individual curricula customized to individual needs and learner's career goals.
Lecturers will not be banned from the platform just because they fail to update their learning material in a timely manner. However, the system of rating the lecturers will ensure that the most quality content will be most visible and will be preferred by the platform's AI engine.

Yes, our goal, in fact, is to bring together in a single place to learn the formal and non-formal education sources. So, of course, we will be working with traditional educational institutions of higher education, such as universities and colleges, to bring their content to the Gledos platform.

Yes, this is a very good idea! Last time we had a meeting with our partner -- Jozef Stefan Institute -- which developed the AI engine for us, we discussed the possibility of using their engine for translation services, as well. Namely, besides the AI-engine for making individualized career paths, they also developed automatic translation service specifically for scientific and other academic content.

Yes, there will be a lot of content. Since a part of the content on the platform will come from other already established educational on-line platforms and MOOCs, their content will remain on their servers. For other content that will be available only on Gledos, we will need a reliable and robust hosting. In this phase, because we became a part of the Microsoft for Startups program, we will start with using their hosting services and SaaS.

Thank you for very good and topical question!
For those lectures that will be free of charge (majority of them are expected to be free), there will be no real incentive for pirating the content. Some of the main features of our platform will be a certification system, career-path-planning AI engine, the voucher system, and the presentation of the content. Those using the pirated content would not have access to any of these features. In fact, a certain level of the piracy might be even beneficial for the platform since it will help spread the word about Gledos and might attract additional users. :-)

We will not be content creators ourselves. We will leave that to those who are the best for such things, such as established universities, colleges, institutes, and other learning entities. We will strive to bring on board as many content providers from different parts of the world as we can to have a rich variety of the courses.

Learners will get a certificate of course attendance in the form of non-fungible token which will be remain on the blockchain. In the beginning, we expect some difficulties regarding the recognition of the education certification by employers and others. However, we plan to tackle that by engaging the enterprises to bring their employees to our learning platform for additional qualifications or life-long learning programs. This way we expect to weave the trust with employers on our certification.

The content provider -- be it individual lecturer or the institution with which he/she is affiliated -- will receive the payment depending on the amount of the used content. The content creator will set the prices of his/her courses. Gledos will take some percentage of each transaction which will be used for the growth of the platform and its promotion. The rest will be payed to the creator.

The price will depend on the course providers, since they will be the ones who will have control over the content they produced. It is expected that the majority of the courses will be free of charge because Gledos will bring the content also from those already available platforms where their content is already published free of charge. Additionally, since there will be plenty of content providers competing for students and other learners after some critical mass, a healthy market competition will kick in. The learners will benefit from it, because market forces are expected to keep the pressure on prices and on the quality of the courses.

Yes, of course. One of the Gledos' unique features will be its AI engine. It was developed by one of the oldest and largest AI laboratories in Europe - at Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, and Gledos partnered with it. The engine's main task will be to create customized and individualized curricula depending on the chosen career goals. The engine will continuously crawl through myriad of employment advertisements and other notices and sources which will enable it to be up to date with the latest requirements for the different jobs out there.

We are contemplating many different avenues besides working on the quality and popularity of our main product. However, we are open to any suggestions that would positively impact our project. 

Additionally, Gledos will not be just a platform bringing together all the learning content. One of its main additional strengths will be its AI engine that will provide prospective learners with a customized learning path they could undertake o achieve their career goals.