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Paid Learning
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A Tool: Tag Trade
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Felix Klee <felix.klee@inka.de>
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Overview

Paid Learning
Scenarios, Participants
Challenges
Tag Trade
What's there?
Goals
Proposal
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What's Paid Learning?

Learners turn fresh knowledge into cash!
(not for everyone!)

Examples:
Writing small tools, software extensions
Doing remote administration
Writing documentation
Helping other learners, students
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Scenarios

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LEARNER <=> DONOR
Young Old
Eager to learn Lazy
Time No time
Poor Rich
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Participants

Learners
(Generous) donors
"Consultants" ...
... coach learners
... select, divide, direct tasks
... coach donors
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Challenges

Make payment for services easy, ubiquitous
Find participants (learners, donors, consultants)
Design more (micro) certificates
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Tag Trade

Applications with Paid Learning:
Makes payment for services easy, ubiquitous
Allows restriction of payment (by age, region, certificate, ...)
Guarantees independence, increases acceptance
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What's there for trading service?

Donations
Ad hoc payments
Affero
Google Answers
OpenBuild.net
Fundable.org
Bounty County
Rent a Coder
...

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Disadvantages

No trade (Donations, Affero, ...)
Cumbersome (ad hoc payments, ...)
Expensive (Rent a Coder, ...)
Central (many)

Why central is bad: Not persistent, interoperability problematic, censorship, slow, high price
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Goals

Simplicity
Quickness
Good pay
Trust
Independence

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Proposal: Tag public messages!

Public messages:
Mailing list postings
Posts in bug databases
Messages in blogs
...
Tags:
Identify tasks, payments, ratings, ...
Establish relations.
Are easy to identify.
Are machine readable.

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Sample tag trade process

Paritipants: 2 users (A, B) + 1 developer (D)
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Messages sent (e.g. to a mailing list):
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A: Specification
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[task] [paym]
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B: Financial support intention
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[paym]
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D: Start declaration
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[strt]
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D: Solution
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[done]
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(A pays D using Paypal)
(B pays D using bank transfer)
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A: Rating for D
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[rate]
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B: Rating for D
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[rate]
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D: Rating A and B
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[rate] [rate]
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Tag with embedded code

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<this-X-trade:paym:
from=userB@a.com;date=2006-10-23;time=08-45-17:
task_from=userA@a.com;task_date=2006-10-23;
task_time=08-39-08;
mini=5;maxi=10;curr=EUR:
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Features:
Rather long (compression possible)
Human readable (if uncompressed)
Only basic info (if uncompressed)
No additional resources needed
...

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Tag with remote code

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Features:
Details machine readable
Short
Web space needed
...

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Tag with micro formats

Features:
Human and machine readable
Easy to extend
Existing data mining technology
Easy to combine
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Challenges

Good tag standard
Helpers: Portals, plugins, consultants, escrow services, insurances, ...
Bootstrapping
Establish trust systems

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Remarks, critique, interest?
More:
http://www.paid-learning.org/ http://www.tagtrade.org/ I'm looking for partners:
learning
technology
business

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