Comments on: eduFire suspends the SuperPass from January 1st 2010

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By: gosiakrumplewska

gosiakrumplewska — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:12:11 +0000

All I can say is that education and laissez-faire may not be best friends. Anyway full respect to the pioneers !

By: chinamike

chinamike — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:26:13 +0000

Good try John! I really wonder what he learned from this. I hope it comes out again so we can study what he tweaked.

In the end my guess is that for something like this to work the number of teachers and courses must be limited and any growth in course offerings would be tied to the number of students who enrolled in the system. Unfortunately, this (Superpass) approach, which might seem revolutionary, has already been adopted with mixed results by many brick and mortar language schools in Asia.

By: Marina

Marina — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:13:40 +0000

I started my own private language school thirteen years ago, and for the first five years ''the results were not quite what I hoped for'', but the years 6+, made a huge difference. I am aware that this might not be an appropriate comparison, but wouldn't you expect from a serial entrepreneur to allow such a concept a longer 'trial period' (June-Dec 2009)?

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:36:40 +0000

Jon is a serial entrepreneur and eduFire got funding in January so money is not the issue here. He is to clever to burn through the money if it has not a chance to succeed though.

So I think we can really break it down to: “…the results were not quite what we had hoped for.”

Sad for the teachers but logic for eduFire to stop it .

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:32:57 +0000

I am sure Jon has something up his sleeve. And maybe the SuperPass will return, who knows

By: daveschappell

daveschappell — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:44:08 +0000

Like you, I also love the openness of the eduFire team — we know that they're behind these types of big ideas, and they're willing to test different approaches. That's good for all of us. Looking forward to what's next!

By: Marina

Marina — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:41:14 +0000

Hi Kirsten,

I am so sad and disappointed to hear that Edufire is suspending Superpass, as I think it was a revolutionary idea (probably inspired by Myngle promotions). IMHO there are two sufficient and necessary conditions to be fulfilled in order for this idea to work:
1. ample number of quality teachers offering various subjects/languages
2. courage (i.e. money) to persevere with this concept

On the bright side, hopefully both Edufire and Myngle helped novice teachers gain some experience & learn how to teach during these promotional experiments

By: Marina Petrovic

Marina Petrovic — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:56:30 +0000

RT @KirstenWinkler: New Blog Post: @eduFire suspends the SuperPass from January 1st 2010 http://bit.ly/4MX4PL