People often need skills that they don’t have to solve a task. Many skills are not taught in school, so how do they learn these skills? Skillshare is fueled by teachers and students that are driven by a passion to share real-world skills through collaborative learning. It is a community marketplace for classes where anyone with experience and knowledge can teach a class, and any place can be a classroom - a co-working space, coffee shop, and garage or conference room.
We’re all born with it. Einstein dubbed it “holy,” Alistair Cooke called it “free-wheeling intelligence.” It’s that piquing force that nudges us to try it again, explore it some more, question it and turn it inside out. From the moment we open our eyes, it fuels our existence. With each new answer we find, our world expands and our passions grow. We can't wait to share what we’ve learned and teach others how to do it themselves. But for many of us, this excitement and spark to passion settles as the years go by. Instead of learning because we want to, we begin learning because we have to.
For this reason, INDEX: Award 2013 Finalist Skillshare is on a mission to re-awaken the slumbering curiosity and that rampant drive in everyone. To act as an enticing reminder that we are all natural-born learners and teachers - from day one to twenty thousand and one, by pushing everyone to discover their passions and be brave enough to chase them. Skillshare exists to make everyone the greatest possible version of themselves.
Skillshare began as a way for communities to share local knowledge by teaching and taking classes on everything from programming to entrepreneurship to cooking. Students can enroll in two types of classes on Skillshare: Local Classes where you meet in person and where students in the same community come together to learn skills in a single or multi-session class ranging from entrepreneurship to cooking. And Hybrid Classes combining project-based, online learning with in-person workshops, allowing students to collaborate and learn with others around the globe.
Skillshare is fueled by the passion and commitment of regular people all over the world. Anyone with experience and knowledge to share can teach a class, and any place can be a classroom - a co-working space, coffee shop, garage or conference room. All classes you see on Skillshare are lovingly hand-curated by an education team to ensure the best possible experience for every student.
Skillshare's vision is to democratize learning by empowering teaching. To build a world where you can learn anything from anyone, powered by an endless cycle of learning and sharing passions. They aim to turn every community into a campus, every address into a classroom, and every inhabitant into a student and teacher. Skillshare is for the doers, not the academics or the theorists and embodies the new world of education. From now on, there will be no passion left undiscovered, no personal potential left unfulfilled and no skill left unshared.
In short, Skillshare is here to change the world by increasing global passion. The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it and turn it inside out.
