Thursday, April 23, 2015

With A New Update, Curious's Lifelong Learning Service Is Looking More Like TV

The startup's new idea sounds familiar: programming shown at scheduled times on channels covering a variety of topics.

When I first met with entrepreneur Justin Kitch in 2013 to chat about his then-new online education company, Curious, we spent a lot of time talking about YouTube. Google's video service offers instructional video in quantities so vast that no human could ever watch all of it. But the quality is erratic, there are no teaching-specific features, and the discourse in YouTube comments typically ranges from inane to offensive. Even the good stuff—and there's plenty of it in there—can be tough to find.

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