Starter Kit. Idea 313 of 500. Cluster 15
E-learning content in Sinhala and Tamil for the O-Level and A-Level, sold by subscription
The mechanism, from the book
The proof exists in Malabe. What is missing is a thousand small versions of it.
The first step
Record 10 short lessons on the hardest topic in one O-Level or A-Level subject, in Sinhala or Tamil, and share them free with students through a teacher or tuition class. Track how many watch to the end, and ask the students and their parents what they would pay monthly for the full course. Paid subscribers from a free sample are the proof.
- Who pays first
- A parent already paying for tuition classes, who will pay a smaller monthly fee for lessons their child can watch again at home.
- What leaves today
- The best teaching is heard once in a crowded hall and lost, instead of being recorded and sold to every district.
Ask first
- Data Protection Authority. Ask what consent you need to hold children's names and progress records.
- Department of the Registrar of Companies. Ask which business registration suits selling lessons by subscription.
Check before you spend
That the lessons follow the current syllabus, that you own or have permission for every text and image used, and how parents consent for children.
Find out these three numbers
- How many students watched the sample lessons to the end?
- What monthly price do parents say they would pay?
- What do tuition classes in the same subject charge?
A comparison from the book
Keep the customer. Appendix
"A sale is worth something once."
A subscription keeps a family paying each month for as long as the lessons keep earning their place.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
From the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? by Dr Maheshika Halbeisen. The idea and the mechanism are the book's; this kit was written for the site.