NO 1: geek college? Pioneer programming community
In a large number of online IT education platforms such as massive open online courses, Wheat College, 5 1CTO, micro-courses, class bars, geek colleges, etc. Only Geek College and 5 1CTO College have the predecessor of the community, which is also a successful case of online education transformation. Geek College, as the first online education platform for IT career, was awarded the second round of financing of SIG (Haina Asia) and Lanchi Venture Capital on September 22nd, 1965, with the amount of $2,200, 438+04. However, it has been a constant storm recently, and it is the only online education institution that appears on Chuangye Street and receives it. According to public data, as of July 20 15 15, geek college had more than one million users, more than 1000 vocational and technical courses and more than 5,000 class hours. IT is said that it is the only IT professional online education platform that has broken through the million level at present.
In the history of geek college, we have to mention EOE community. Founder Jin Yan is the author of the first Android development textbook in China and the founder of the largest mobile developer community in China. He has extremely rich teaching experience and resources. After the eoe community with hundreds of thousands of users, through the changes of students and the opportunities of the times, we will build a geek college platform to provide better courses for more IT personnel. Above all, Geek College is a course that attaches great importance to the latest technology and is the first platform to launch courses many times. Because of this, it won numerous praises and brand exposure for the platform, and benefited from the exquisite content and effect of the course, resulting in geometric communication.
Moreover, as a platform that charged fees from the beginning, it was also a bold move, but it was finally successfully transformed temporarily, which is one of the reasons why it was favored by top venture capital institutions. The foundation of geek college is community. Without the introduction of community users, there will be fewer loyal users. Moreover, in operation, the popularization of the platform will take more time. Education, in particular, is a slow-moving industry, which may have collapsed before it reached the center of the tuyere.
There are several things worth referring to behind the geek academy:
(1) high-end users. In the early stage of platform development, the team has already made a psychological portrait of the user, otherwise it will not take the risk of adopting the charging model. High-end users are a group of people who are slightly less sensitive to price, and they also attach great importance to the word "professional". Only more professional people and platform courses can attract these loyal users;
(2) coincidence. In a million communities, there are very few teams that can see a direction and transform it, and it is precisely when the fire of online education has just been lit that the opportunity is really difficult to talk about;
(3) Excellent team. There must be an excellent team behind every typical example, so Jia Lang won't say much.
NO2:5 1CTO？ IT technology forum
5 1CTO community was established in China in 2005? Focus on IT technology and build a leading IT technology network platform in China? For platform purposes. Up to now, it has a history of 10 years, and 5 1 CTO College is the product of ten years of community growth. Since its establishment in July, 65,438+0,2065,438+03, it has been determined to use technology to make experts realize their dreams. According to public data, 5 1CTO College has 500 lecturers, 3.5 million students, 18 category and 126 category, 3,000 courses and 50,000 videos. However, the original intention of the college was not to enter online education, but according to Qiu Wenping, one of the founders, the original intention was to activate the bottleneck 5 1CTO website, because after the community entered the eighth year, more than 10,000 users of/kloc-0 suddenly fell into a slowdown in activity, and users did not fall in love.
In the development history of 5 1TCO College, background factors and original intention occupy the first place. As an old community with a history of ten years, resources and users far exceed the predecessor of Geek College, so the former entered the ranks of millions of users early. Different from the IT online career platform, 5 1CTO is more technical and expert-oriented, and its courses are a platform for vocational education.
However, 5 1CTO has many advantages that online career platforms do not have: faculty. As a C2C platform, the importance of teachers is far greater than everything. Teachers can fill in the blanks for the platform by making content independently. Relying on the community background of ten years, countless technology giants have the awareness of re-realizing value, which will attract more teachers to settle in the platform, which is inseparable, otherwise the current trend cannot be formed.
In addition to the mode, 5 1CTO College is worth learning:
(1) Service standardization. The college attaches great importance to the service to students, which is also the most expensive cost;
(2) Civilization. As a technical platform, there are different user portraits, while Geek College is aimed at high-end users, and 5 1CTO College is more inclined to people with a little technical foundation, which also provides a foundation for such a large number of users;
(3) clinch a deal according to the effect. As a paid C2C platform, the content and effect of courses become the core competitiveness of the platform, and the teachers who drive the platform pay more attention to the improvement of teaching and research and technology, because from the perspective of human nature, human nature is greedy and vain, and no one wants to get more for more work.