• Ownership of Content: Platforms like Udemy retain significant control over the content uploaded by creators, including pricing and distribution.

• Censorship & Content Moderation: Centralized control can lead to censorship and overly restrictive content moderation policies, limiting the freedom of creators.

• High Commission Fees: Platforms often take substantial cuts from creators’ earnings. For instance,

  • Udemy takes up to 50% of course sales.

  • Whop takes 30% of all revenue generated on the marketplace.

  • Coursera takes 25% minimum for university-standard courses (& more from independent creators).

• Limited Monetization Options: Beyond course sales, there are limited ways for creators to monetize their content or engage their community.

• Global Payment Scrutiny: Most platforms cater to the west where banking and payment processing can be an issue.

• Limited Community Features: Similar platforms integrate limited community features, and most other platforms lack robust social interaction tools, making it difficult for creators to build and sustain active communities.

• Engagement Drop-off: Maintaining student engagement over time can be challenging due to the lack of interactive and community-driven elements. There's hardly any gamification to keep students engaged and motivated. Most platforms offer courses with a one-time use.

• Rigid Course Structures: Platforms often enforce standardized course structures, limiting the ability of creators to customize their content delivery and student interaction.

• Lack of Personalization: The one-size-fits-all approach can result in a lack of personalized learning experiences for students. Teachers need to be able to adopt their form of teaching to excel in their craft. Educators require flexibility and customization.

• Saturated Market: With thousands of courses available, it can be challenging for new and even experienced creators to stand out and attract students.

• Limited Marketing Support: Creators are often left to their own devices to market their courses, with minimal support from the platform.

• Delayed Payments: Platforms can have long payment cycles, delaying the receipt of earnings for creators & chargebacks.

• High Transaction Fees: Traditional payment methods incur significant transaction fees, especially if transacting in exotic currencies that have to be converted to major currencies, reducing overall earnings for creators.

• Lack of Accredited Certifications: Certificates from platforms like Udemy and Skool are often not accredited, reducing their value in professional settings.

• Verification Issues: Ensuring the credibility and authenticity of course content and certifications can be challenging.

• Outdated Technology: Some platforms may struggle with outdated technology stacks, leading to suboptimal user experiences. Most platforms offer lectures without the quizzes, lacking in the importance of testing your students.

• Scalability Issues: As the user base grows, maintaining seamless performance and user experience can become challenging. From boring user interfaces to limited intractability.

Leveraging blockchain, Skolarships provides unparalleled data security and transparency. All transactions, certifications, and user activities are immutably recorded, ensuring trust and credibility. This not only protects user data but also allows for verifiable credentials and a clear audit trail.

Skolarships integration of decentralized payments and cryptocurrency options reduces transaction fees and scales processing times, making education and interactions more accessible globally. Smart contracts automate and secure payments, ensuring that educators and learners can focus on what matters most – the learning and networking experiences.

The scalable infrastructure supports a growing user base without compromising performance. Tokenization and distributed ledger technology allow for efficient management and expansion, accommodating diverse educational needs and large-scale operations.

The platform with foster vibrant learning communities with advanced engagement tools, gamification, and monetary incentives. Users earn rewards for participation, content creation, and course completion, driving high engagement and retention rates.

Employing both traditional and blockchain-based loyalty programs with token incentives to attract and retain users. Skolarships approach to marketing ensures sustained, explosive growth of a growing, loyal user base, differentiating the product in the competitive e-learning landscape. With a stacked design team, the platform will have a competitive edge with it's attractive UI to retain customers while optimizing website speeds for all devices and networks globally.

Blockchain-enabled certificates and content ownership provides verifiable proof of skills and achievements. This adds significant value to the courses offered and enhances the employability of our learners, making Skolarships a preferred choice for career-focused education.

(De)centralization & Control: Using blockchain technology, Skolarships gives creators ownership and control over their content, ensuring freedom from centralized control. Content created will be moderated and will abide by the ToS of the platform to avoid hate-speech, harm to others, etc.

Fair Revenue Sharing: Skolarships offers flexible monetization models in both fiat and crypto, including subscriptions, direct payments and royalty-based earnings, ensuring creators retain more of their income. For those without banks or transact with exotic currencies, crypto options are available to mitigate high fees.

Enhanced Community Features: Robust community-building tools, using top social media platform-inspired social interfaces with interactive features, helping sustain high levels of engagement and making the platform enjoyable to use.

Customizable Course Structures: Creators can choose numerous blueprint templates to customize their courses and community interactions, providing personalized learning experiences best suited for their teaching models and community layout.

Effective Marketing Support: Leveraging attractive affiliate models and partnerships, Skolarships incentivizes discoverability and marketing support for creators. Creators can move their pre-existing courses onto the platform in a more attractive format and build their community, all in one place.

Seamless Payments: No bank? No problem. For those without access to banks and online fiat systems, crypto payments ensure fast, secure transactions with lower fees, improving the financial experience for creators and avoiding chargebacks, amongst the many other obstacles faced using PSPs.

Accredited Certifications: Unlike most courses with certifications set to expire, Skolarships aims to provide credible, blockchain-verified certifications from universities, professionals, commercial brands, and notable thought-leaders. These will hold value and last a lifetime in most professional settings. See Certifications for more information.

Advanced Technology: A modern technology stack ensures scalability and a superior user experience, adapting to the growing needs of users.

See Product for more detailed information.