Sclipo launches Partnership Program
September 8, 2009 by Gregor Gimmy · Leave a Comment
We started a Partner Program to engage our members to help us spread the word about Sclipo. Sclipo makes learning and teaching online possible for everyone! This is what we want our Partners to emphasize when they promote Sclipo to people who teach, but don’t have the resources for a traditional LMS/CMS.
LMS (Learning Management System) and CMS (Course Management Systems) are complex and costly. Even if open source, you have to invest in configuration, hosting and maintenance. If you are not a web-development savvy teacher (99% of teachers aren’t), you will have to engage a LMS/CMS system consultant. Altogether, you are looking at at least a couple of months and plus 5000 USD to get started.
Most teachers can’t afford this. In special independent teachers, informal teachers (a friend, a colleague, you…) and small schools and companies for continuous education. With Sclipo however, they can get started in a matter of minutes. In addition to asynchronous instructional tools, Sclipo also provides powerful synchronous learning and social features that no LMS/CMS can offer. For example, at Sclipo you can share and connect with thousands of other people who are publishing and teaching courses and live web classes on Sclipo.
Our Partners get cool rewards! They earn a referral fee of up to 15% of the Premium Membership payments and free Premium accounts. Rewards are based upon the teaching activity of their referrals: the more a referral teaches, the higher the reward.
To help our Partners spread the word we are giving them these tools:
* A Partner page, which they can share through Twitter, Facebook, email, etc. The Partner page is a Sclipo Join page, personalized to each Partner. For example, people joining through for example the Partner page of member Jane are automatically referrals of Jane.
* A cool Partner Badge (see above), which Partners can embed in their web page or blog. It links directly to their personalized Join page.
* A Partner dashboard, which shows them all their referrals and teaching activities.
Check it out, and become a Partner today!
