Discussion: One of the leading friction-reducing phenomena flowing from mobility is the so-called Sharing Economy, with proponents such as Airbnb and Uber, wherein somebody creates a mobile application which makes it trivially easy for any person A who needs X to find and make a deal with any person Y, who is willing to offer X, whatever that X is. And yes, all of this still involves some work and frustration for you, but with AI the deficiencies of a sharing economy can be mitigated or resolved.
523 Inspiration: For example, there have been innumerable repositories for Open Education Resources (OERs) over the last decade, but none of them have taken off yet. What is the magic Sharing Economy formula by which educators and learners will be able to achieve their separate objectives more easily?
Sites like TPT have shown us that there is a massive appetite for content shared by other educators. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for this marketplace to devolve itno another opportunity for poeple who aren’t afraid to make money by gaming the algorithm. An open community, accessible anywhere on a mobile device, where teachers could access materials shared/vetted/approved/created by other well-meaning educators without the toxicity that comes along with monetization, would be incredibly useful to educators.