Odijoo is an asynchronous eLearning platform, which takes a student-centered online learning approach. The goal of Odijoo is to facilitate 2-way learning in the classroom setting: student to student, student to teacher and teacher to student. This means combining the functionality of an eLearning platform, with social networking features.

One of these features is the Odijoo Marketplace. What is the Odijoo Marketplace? Picture iTunes, or Amazon, but instead of music and media being exchanged, it is knowledge, in the form of online courses.

Users can connect with one another and share knowledge in the Odijoo marketplace; users can search for courses by name, subject matter or industry and enroll either for free or for a fee (if the classroom administrator has set one) and instantly begin learning!

If you’re a subject matter expert or trainer, you can also create a course in Odijoo and add it to the Marketplace as either a free or paid enrollment course. If you choose to charge, for every user that enrolls in your course or buys your syndicated course content, Odijoo™ deducts 10% from the purchase price (with a $5 minimum charge) and you keep the rest. If you don’t make money, we don’t charge!

Odijoo’s Marketplace also has a Course Rating System built inside it – after enrolling in a course and taking it, users can rate it. This involves users giving the course a rating out of 5 stars and leaving a comment about their experiences with it. The system works much like that of Amazon or Expedia and is designed to give potential students a better idea of the quality of a course, before enrolling.

Sign up for Odijoo at www.odijoo.com and check out the Odijoo Marketplace for yourself!

We’re excited to announce the release of Odijoo! Odijoo is an all-in-one web-based eLearning platform that allows users to create, publish, share, sell and syndicate online courses from your own personalized online space, known as an Odijoo campus.

Check out the brand new Odijoo Course Authoring tool. The new authoring tool allows you to create online courses and add modules, lessons, topics, audio narration or sound, videos, pictures, text formatting and more.

Create an Odijoo Campus for free and have your own personalized, themed and branded online space within Odijoo located at yourcampusname.odijoo.com. Simply sign up for a campus, import your classrooms into it and invite members to join. You can use a campus as your own private webpage within Odijoo, or a storefront ort or online training centre, from which you can conduct your business.

You can also monetize your knowledge with the new Odijoo. Create an online course with the authoring tool or by importing a PowerPoint and syndicate (sell) the content in the Marketplace to other users. Once a course is syndicated, other users can purchase it, turn it into a classroom and teach it to their students. If you don’t want to syndicate, you can create a classroom out of your course, set an enrollment fee and sell it in the Marketplace as a paid enrollment classroom. Users can enroll in your course and learn, while you make money per every student that takes it!

For more information on the new Odijoo, including all of the features listed above, check out our Odijoo overview.

We’ve redesigned our front page and added an Odijoo Overview page to show you what Odijoo’s all about! We’re also just a week or so away from releasing Odijoo, which will allow you to create, deliver and monetize online courses from your own personalized online campus. Read more here.