Skillshare Mavericks - Free, online school to learn the most in-demand skills

Hey everyone! Michael from Skillshare here. I’m excited to announce Skillshare Mavericks, which is a new online school that will be 100% free. We’re unlike any other program: no teachers or classes. We don’t charge tuition and it’s 100% free, forever. Our entire curriculum and experience is centered around both project-based learning and peer-to-peer learning. Mavericks will offer education, community, and real-world training for today's most in-demand professions. Our goal is to provide upward mobility based on motivation, aptitude, and potential. We want to do our part in bringing the world closer to a true meritocracy. This starts with leveling the playing field for as many people as possible. Our first programs will be for Product Designers, Blockchain Developers, and Data Scientists. Hope you can join us!

New online school powered by Skillshare! Company near & dear to my heart (one of the first startups I worked)-- excited to see new launch to grow their community of learners.

This is interesting. How will you drive growth without user revenue? Free education is dope 🚬🚬

I am a BIG fan of any company that offers free education. Especially within fields that are useful to the IT industry today. Skillshare already offers a great platform for learning and Mavericks seems like a great next step.

Pros:

Okay so:

Free

Well Designed

Community

Useful Skills

And did I mention free?

Cons:

I can't start learning today, but soon, so soon.

Amazing service and topic. Incredible to watch Skillshare grow!

Big fan of startups trying to democratize learning... Will be interested to see the quality of a totally free service but I'm a huge supporter of the vision. Great stuff!!

@mikekarnj, i haven't access to site. Did you shutdown the Mavericks?

Really excited for this Blockchain Engineer course

Great! It's about time to replace traditional education with what matters

I really like the skillshare platform and community -- they have done an amazing job helping people improve their skillsets. Looking forward to see how this model transitions to technical skill sets like Blockchain and Data Science

Pros:

Free education -- We have had an incredibly tough time hiring Blockchain talent. Looking forward to high caliber grads!

Cons:

Still waiting to try the specific Mavericks platform

@mikekarnj very interesting!! However, what is the monetization model of the platform, please? *I got curious :)

This is SO awesome. Long live democratized education!

Apparently the site does not exist anymore and I cannot find any sort of announcement about it shutting down. Not very nice.