| I agree with your points. I was stretching my usage of 'entrepreneurs' to make a point as you noticed. > Further, I know of no regulation that prevents people from teaching for money. I do, because unfortunately the government has been using them against bootcamp schools: > To achieve compliance, institutions must pay a $5,000 application fee; provide a course catalog, enrollment agreement, and performance fact sheet publicly on their websites; and submit a few other minor documents included on the application. http://readwrite.com/2014/02/18/why-coding-bootcamps-should-... > Over the past month, California regulators sent cease and desist letters to many of these hacker boot camps, saying they run afoul of the state’s educational laws, as first reported by Venturebeat. “They’re not properly licensed, and the law requires them to be licensed to offer an educational service like they are,” says Russ Heimerich, a spokesperson for the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, or BPPE. http://www.wired.com/2014/01/california-hacker-bootcamps/ |
And, in the case of the boot camps you mentioned, it kind of argues against your original point. That is, they apparently ran afoul of the regulations because of their attempts to make it a business that could be classified as an institution versus there being individuals who could have generated income from their labor, if not for some onerous regulation.
More relevantly, no one would have stopped any "teacher" from creating Udemy style online courses on their own domain.
That situation in CA is intresting though. I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for sharing.