PowerLearning21.com is a media hub for teachers, tutors and students across the world, providing educational content on a variety of topics. PowerLearning21, or “PL21” for short, provides a state of the art content-sharing platform that allows “teachers” or “tutors” to upload instructional videos to be purchased by other users, “students”. PL21 defines these terms lightly, as anyone can be a teacher or student in a given subject provided they have background or prior knowledge of the topic.
Teachers upload instructional videos (called Classes) on every subject imaginable and students can view them for just US$2.99. Watch the first 2 minutes of any video for free! The small fee is used to help pay for the hosting and maintenance of the PL21 site as well as pay the teachers for their time and effort in creating great video. When a student views a teachers uploaded video the teacher gets to share in the profits of the rental!
The interactive community environment that PL21 is creating pulls from the life blood of passionate teachers and eager-to-learn students from across the world to create a really intriguing concept. PL21 thrives on the fact that teachers will always want to teach, students will always want to learn, and the continually cluttering market of free video content will in time be too difficult to search for quality material.