Prodeus

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Prodeus: Track your time learning on YouTube to earn your free degree https://t.co/cq56k5Rcvj via @chrismessina Thanks to Chris for hunting us!!!

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@hahooen @mcbc @AOC @elonmusk Selling stuff isn’t capitalist my guy, sorry to break it to you.

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@ProductHunt Don’t go to college

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@plainly_andy @rrhoover Hell ya

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What’s the most important thing a company looks for in an #LMS?

#education #edtech #onlinelearning

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@jerrysaltz Shut up Jerry

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@BradMossing @profgalloway Totally… state run education is stagnant. That’s why Germany’s free higher education system has such terrible student outcomes and lack of innovative research.

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@BradMossing @profgalloway What if… and stay with me here… college wasn’t a profit driven institution at all. Aligning incentives here merely means further integrating the needs of business with higher education. Things that are needed but unprofitable will continually lose funding and attention.

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@agarwalm @LargeKnome @SawyerMerritt @elonmusk It’s unions and socialists that got you those labor laws dude.

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Ya it’s definitely the union…
For those in the back… despite a 50 year assault on unions, union members on average make 11% more than non union employees and have better access to healthcare.

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CNBC’s Andrew Sorkin to GM CEO Mary Barra: “It appears by my math that on average, Tesla employees, who are non-unionized, appears on an hourly basis may be making more money than unionized workers for example at GM.” @elonmusk

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We love solving the problems of capitalism with more capitalism.

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@profgalloway Here is the thesis. Instead college being fund by tuition and state/federal funds putting all the risk on the 18-22 year olds, what if the university got paid 10% of future earnings? This would align the incentives of the college and students…

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Where is the lie?

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@tremayne_tatem @TiiaAurora @chrismessina @ProductHunt @TheJackForge @heyOnuoha @Twitter @YouTube We’re not going to recreate the threader app but we are building out a better link sharing UI for Twitter as well as letting you link your Twitter profile with Prodeus so we can tell which tweets are yours. This same logic will apply to Reddit, quota and medium

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We want users to earn credit from more than YouTube but we’re not sure how the conversion to credit would work with certain platforms.

Any ideas how you imagine they could work for these?

Stack Overflow
GitHub
Medium
Codewars
Kaggle
Hackerrank
Leetcode
Dribbble
Behance

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@tremayne_tatem @TiiaAurora @chrismessina @ProductHunt @TheJackForge @heyOnuoha @Twitter @YouTube Essentially we’re thinking that users will have more opportunities for credit in general. So sharing a resource that gets certified will offer 2 credits. Sharing a resource you made will give you 5 credits with the opportunity to earn 10 more based on engagement.

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@TiiaAurora @tremayne_tatem @chrismessina @ProductHunt @TheJackForge @heyOnuoha @Twitter @YouTube Exciting news! We should be able to offer credit for Twitter, Reddit and medium within the next 2 weeks. The other ones shouldn’t be much longer than that.

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@TiiaAurora @tremayne_tatem @chrismessina @ProductHunt @TheJackForge @heyOnuoha @Twitter @YouTube Well Prodeus uses peer approval to determine what’s credible already so we could apply that same method here. This way users can add any thread they want but only those threads which they created and which are peer approved will offer credit. Sound solid?

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@TiiaAurora @tremayne_tatem @chrismessina @ProductHunt @TheJackForge @heyOnuoha @Twitter @YouTube Thinking we could also add @Reddit posts and threads in the same way.

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@tremayne_tatem @TiiaAurora @chrismessina @ProductHunt @TheJackForge @heyOnuoha @Twitter @YouTube Definitely see the value in adding threads to pathways. Do you see any clear path to turn a Twitter thread into credit?

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For example…for @LeetCode we could have their different difficulty problems correlate with different credit amounts.

Or for @hackerrank we could just have a simple conversion of points to credits.

These are initial thoughts

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Wondering what solutions y’all might have? @tremayne_tatem @TiiaAurora @chrismessina @ProductHunt @TheJackForge @heyOnuoha