As more digital content appears online, companies are beginning to take a stab at identifying, cataloging, and centralizing it all.
In July, for example, Pearson announced that it had created a searchable catalog of nearly 700,000 open educational resources including videos from TED Ed, Kahn Academy, and YouTube EDU, as well as courses from the Open Course Library.
StudySoup’s Education Marketplace differs in that the content offered through the platform can be created with StudySoup’s tools and then be sold through it. Further down the line, Kozinsky said, the platform will offer a wider variety of content by big-name publishers.
StudySoup is already in use at more than 40 campuses, including the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Oregon, and the University of Minnesota. Kozinksy said StudySoup allows universities, presses, and publishers to make their content interactive and available for sale online.
“Really it allows anybody to create interactive content,” he said. “You don’t even have to be tied to university. Anyone can come into the platform, and create material which can then be compiled into what we call a ‘course,’ and delivered to potential students.”
StudySoup will keep 15 percent of the royalties whenever a “course” is purchased.
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