Gis15ethereum: NTOK

NTOK online education platform

Peer-to-peer online education platform

The traditional system of education has a number of problems and becoming more outdated over the years. You need to pay a lot of money to attend a school and college, where you don’t always get what you wanted. Therefore, students need to search for online courses or tutors to obtain the desired knowledge.

Tutoring, one of the biggest segments of the education market, is forecasted to reach US$227 billion by 2022. Currently, online tutoring accounts for only 3–5% of the tutoring market, but is expected to grow fast and become mainstream in the fields of language study, preschool preparation, supplementary instruction for K-12 students, continuing professional education.

Significant problems of the tutoring market:

· Most courses are offline and students should spend hours to get to the destination point;

· The price of the course may be overstated and does not correspond to the acquired knowledge;

· Middlemen (commercial schools and study centers) charge significant markups;

· Today’s tutors are mainly teach via Skype, which is strongly depends on the quality of the Internet and thus, learning process can become complicated;

· Teacher’s rating may be fake since often it is moderated by deleting negative reviews;

The NTOK has solution.

The team is developing a decentralized peer-to-peer platform, central part of which is the NTOK crypto-token. This will eliminate the need of commercials schools and study centers which will help to save up to 75% on the cost of a lessons.

Students and tutors are the basis of the ecosystem. They interact with each other through the NTOK platform lessons and rating/review system. Students directly pay tutors for the lessons using NTOK tokens.

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Is the system tested?

Yes! Currently the Alpha version of the NTOK platform is used in the online English language school tutor-ninja.com. This is a pilot project for a new peer-to-peer model for interacting with centralized online schools.

Also signed preliminary agreements with partners in different countries (in particular China), who will be using the NTOK platform while building their own operational business. This will allow to develop worldwide educational ecosystem faster.

Functionalities of the future NTOK platform:

Tutor search and selection. Pay attention only to the important: subject, profile, language, rating, price, etc;

Online schedule for tutors and students. Choose free slot in the teacher’s schedule and plan your attendance;

Direct payment to tutors using crypto tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. Forget about middleman’s significant markup and pay directly to the tutor;

Interactive study area. Enjoy great quality of audio and video, chat, file sharing, interactive whiteboard, and also benefit from an interactive testing system offering unique types of exercises for each subject category;

Rating system based on blockchain. No more fake reviews and dishonest teachers. Only those who have attended a lesson can leave feedback on this tutor. Overall rating will be based on a large number of parameters which will help to make the right choice;

Video lessons. Watch the lessons anytime and post separate ratings. Also, tutors will have an additional marketing opportunity within the ecosystem and chance to earn more NTOK tokens.