{"id":1965,"date":"2020-11-29T19:09:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T02:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2020-12-05T23:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T06:01:35","slug":"a3-concierge-by-top-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/11\/29\/a3-concierge-by-top-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"A3 – Concierge by Top Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This venture is a proposed new market for an established startup Classroom Management Software company, Top Hat. Top Hat currently has no presence in the K-12 market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most marketers would agree that educators are slow to embrace technology.  It\u2019s not a resistance to tech per se, but a resistance to the expenditure of precious time it takes to learn how to use the tech.  Adoption of tech often hits the roadblock of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concierge by Top Hat is designed to overcome the time barrier.  It is one platform that can accomplish all of an educator\u2019s tech needs, to have an adaptive, interactive, digital classroom.  A classroom ready for in-person, remote, or blended learning.  Only one interface to learn to accomplish all the educator\u2019s tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deliver Presentations. Give out and grade assignments.  Quick in-class polling. Online Labs. All within one platform that lies above and interacts with other LMS and SIS platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One more thing\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Content is king, and the Concierge platform is designed to deliver content, in the form of fully-interactive, customizable, digital textbooks.  Educators can add video, simulations, in-line quizzes, internet links, and even good old text to any resource.  A large database of open educational resources, e-texts, slide decks, question banks, and quizzes are curated by Concierge in the Marketplace, and will be expanded by all users in the Concierge community. OERs will be a big part of Concierge, with a large bank initially, continually added by users and new authors alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Digital textbook team at Concierge can convert a traditional print book into an interactive digital text for about $2000 per title.  With low licence fees of $5-$10 per student, it will only take 30 classes of 30 students to licence a text to return that investment four-fold, with a 50\/50 revenue split for content developers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concierge will always be free for educators, encouraging uptake in the market.  All but the commercial digital textbook feature will be free for students, and the cost of our digital texts for a school, amortized over the 5 – 10 year life span of a print text resource, is far, far lower. Saving money for schools, and making money for you the investor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The P<\/a>ITCH is HERE: <\/a> https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/sd61learn.ca\/concierge-by-top-hat—etec-522-venture-pitch\/elevator-pitch <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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