Stephen Downes

When we talk about learning resources, people usually think in terms of content and multimedia. But to a learner, people are a resource as well. Lrnkey is a startup that provides access to tutors at an hourly rate. I can't vouch for the quality of the tutors (and this would seem to me to be a big unknown). And there would need to be a way of ranking tutors (by quality, availability, price) as the number increased (it's currently very small). Still, why wouldn't you provide access to tutors this way?