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richard buckland, adam brimo and david collien, co - founders of openlearning .
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this article angel investor clive mayhew leads $ 1. 7m round in openlearning was originally published in brw .
openlearning allows anybody to build a course on its platform for free, as long as it is made publicly available .
explore interactive activities you can create with openlearning' s tools to keep students immersed and engaged in your online courses .
openlearning is a platform that enables students and teachers across the world to experience online learning. the social way: )
openlearning is free for public courses but there is an enterprise model for businesses and private course providers who want to restrict participation .
mr brimo founded openlearning with one of his former teachers at the university of nsw, richard buckland. last year they used the openlearning platform, which they both had a hand in developing, to put professor buckland’s unsw introductory computing course online for free – becoming ­australia’s first home - grown mooc .
mayhew says it is the opportunity for growth that is most appealing. he described openlearning’s current revenue as “immaterial
and says he disregarded most of the forecasts .
openlearning chief executive adam brimo said the software platform could now offer organisations a branded e - learning portal and also record the progress of an individual student through a number of courses .
former muru - d participant openlearning has secured $ 1. 7 million in funding with the aim of growing its users from 125, 000 to a million globally by next year .
openlearning was founded by adam brimo, richard buckland and david collien in 2012 and the business provides a technology platform for massive open online courses (moocs) and other online course providers .
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openlearning, the e - learning provider which produced australia’s first ­massive open online course (mooc) a year ago, has enhanced its platform to aim at the corporate training and ­education provider market .
openlearning says its cloud - based e - learning platform integrates social media techniques – chat, posting ­comments, blogging and sharing material – to help students learn from each other, and also makes it easy for even non - specialists to create a course .
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brimo says openlearning is earning some revenue but it is not a focus right now and the company is not cash - flow positive. there are currently 125, 000 students around the world using the platform. the business has been global from day one and the biggest market is malaysia for moocs and australia for professional development courses. the us is also a big market .
“at the moment online education is effectively someone uploading content and other people downloading content... it’s boring and not that effective ,
brimo says. “so we started openlearning to provide a platform that could facilitate active learning, or constructivism as it’s sometimes called, and the goal is to provide the teachers with the tools to do it but also the education to show them how to do it because teaching online is very different to teaching in a classroom .
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he said it would be appealing to ­businesses for conducting staff training and to educational institutions .
“we’re seeing a lot of interest from corporations, and universities are ­starting to contact us in the last month or so ,
he said .
furthermore it can handle billing, which allows a company to internally charge its business areas for training or allows an educational institution to charge students for a course. “you could use this to set up an entire school ,
mr brimo said .
he said it was particularly suited to small - to medium - sized businesses and to education providers .
it has 41 free public courses available online. however, it charges fees if the course builder wants to restrict the availability of the course to a ­particular group, such as a business providing training to staff, or wants to charge a fee to do the course, such as an education provider .
mr brimo said nearly 30, 000 ­students had now used open­learning’s platform, some for more than one course .
the round was led by angel investor clive mayhew, who put in $ 1 million. asx - listed ics global, robin and susan yandle, and hideaki fukutake, the director of japanese education company benesse holdings, collectively put in $ 700, 000 .
the start - up was a participant in the inaugural round of telstra’s muru - d accelerator program last year and has had some previous angel investment, including through muru - d .
mayhew made his money as a technology entrepreneur and has been looking for a new tech investment since selling sky software for $ 21 million last march. in the past year he made a few smaller tech investments through sydney seed fund and also funded a juice cleansing company called orchard street .
“i wanted to stay in education technology because it’s a sector i had a lot of expertise in ,
mayhew says. “i came across adam and richard, and as a management team they were just exceptional people – adam is high energy, a really smart, young kid, and richard is a professor at the university of nsw, a little bit more mature and has the education background. so it was a great team and the opportunity was big enough that it was worth my money and my time and effort .
on the mooc side, the company competes with us - based coursera, which has 10 million users .
“coursera is one of the competitors in the mooc space but it is not a platform people can use to run their own private course or even their own mooc, it’s restricted to the top universities ,
brimo says. “we compete with a combination of the mooc platforms, some of the older online learning management systems, and content delivery systems like udemy .
the funding will be used to expand the engineering team to build out more features and also the instruction and design team that engages with teachers .
“we’re quite excited to get to this point but funding alone is not a marker of success, it’s about giving us the opportunity to build a better product and find more people around the world who want to use it and who can get value out of it ,
brimo says. “this time next year our goal is to have a million users, students and teachers combined .
“the prospectus had all these revenue numbers and revenue growth based on assumptions and i questioned those assumptions, and at the end really didn’t accept their revenue growth numbers at all ,
mayhew says .
“what was really attractive to me was the contracts they had in place in malaysia and the growth they’re achieving already. the number of users has gone from 20, 000 to 125, 000 in about six months so what appealed to me is the fact they scaled the operation, they scaled the number of users, and they had a very good [ agreement ] with the malaysian government that would let them scale it even more. i don’t want them to focus on revenue, i want them to focus on going from 125, 000 to 1 million users as quickly as possible and from there we’ll scale it to 10 million .
mayhew says his background as a technology entrepreneur means he understands this style of investment better than many other angel investors and the important thing is to focus on milestones and user growth, knowing it will convert to revenue when you get critical mass .
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online learning systems have traditionally entirely relied on submission drop - boxes or quiz - like assessments .
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openlearning is a for-profit educational technology institution based in australia that offers a social online learning platform that can deliver massive open online courses ( moocs ) . openlearning has worked with the university of new south wales and taylor 's university to deliver the first moocs in australia and malaysia respectively . in december 2013 , openlearning launched a cloud based software product for companies to create private educational portals on its platform . in february 2015 , openlearning raised $ 1.7 million in funding led by angel investor clive mayhew . asx-listed ics global , robin and susan yandle , and hideaki fukutake , the director of japanese education company benesse holdings . in june 2015 , the australian federal government announced it would be getting its first mooc delivered by open learning . 
openlearning is a for-profit educational technology institution based in australia that offers a social online learning platform that can deliver massive open online courses (moocs). openlearning has worked with the university of new south wales and taylor's university to deliver the first moocs in australia and malaysia respectively. in december 2013, openlearning launched a cloud based software product for companies to create private educational portals on its platform. in february 2015, openlearning raised $ 1.7 million in funding led by angel investor clive mayhew. asx-listed ics global, robin and susan yandle, and hideaki fukutake, the director of japanese education company benesse holdings. in june 2015, the australian federal government announced it would be getting its first mooc delivered by open learning.
openlearning is a for-profit educational technology institution based in australia that offers a social online learning platform that can deliver massive open online courses (moocs). openlearning has worked with the university of new south wales and taylor's university to deliver the first moocs in australia and malaysia respectively. in december 2013, openlearning launched a cloud based software product for companies to create private educational portals on its platform. in february 2015, openlearning raised $ 1.7 million in funding led by angel investor clive mayhew. asx-listed ics global, robin and susan yandle, and hideaki fukutake, the director of japanese education company benesse holdings. in june 2015, the australian federal government announced it would be getting its first mooc delivered by open learning.