ODEM: A MARKETPLACE TO MAKE HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE & AFFORDABLE TO EVERYONE.

CAUTION
The blockchain technology is indeed revolutionary with huge potentials, thus a reason to write about Odem platform which also tap into same technology. This piece is intended as promotional or advertising materials. Writer is not responsible for any content, accuracy or quality within this piece.
THE BLOCKCHAIN
It is no longer news that the blockchain technology is one of the landmark achievement recorded in the technological sector in most recent times. It is associated with a whole lot of advantages that cut across other sector of the economy such as Education, Banking, Gaming, etc, thus expanding the capacity of people to coordinate innovative ideas. It pave ways for the integration of affordable and accessible leverages on the advantages of its technology such as
(a) Decentralisation of marketplace for different business model to thrive.
(b) Complex coordination across many different stakeholders
(c) Fast, low friction in system payment across currencies, etc.
As a result of the numerous advantages that come alongside blockchain technology, different business model are being developed in order to maximally utilize the benefit of the technology, amongst these different model of businesses is the On Demand Education Marketplace (Odem).

WHAT IS ODEM?
'Odem is a single, accessible and distributed network that allows students to seamlessly interact with professors and their academic partners in- person, onsite, in both local and international settings to raise the quality of accessible education at reasonable cost'.
The idea behind Odem platform believes that the educational sector is due disruption due to advancement in technology, It is also believed that the time spent on higher education, cost of higher education, training acquired, etc is no longer good enough in a time that technological advancement is reshaping numerous models of doing things, thus there is need for a new and better model for the educational sector, which Odem intends to provide.

WHAT PROBLEMS WILL ODEM SOLVE?
It is true that Not everyone can afford quality higher education, this may be as a result of several unjustifiable reasons, however no season is good enough to deny anyone the opportunity of quality higher education.
Institutional barriers has been seen as one factor hindering/ denying some people the opportunity to higher education, In some countries, it is difficult to even gain admission to the University due to some rigid legacy models, thus leaving some students with no option than pursuing non-professional educational career.
Financial barriers over the years have also deprived many people from accessing higher equality education. This is because of models like ever rising tuition fees, deliberate extortion of money from students, continual sales of unapproved manuals for personal gains. This practice has caused backdrop as well as putting fears in aspiring students, thus hindering them from having accessible quality education.
Geographical and societal barriers is another major concerns hindering students from having accessible quality education.

THE EDUCATION SECTOR SEEMS TO BE FACING TOO MANY CHALLENGES, HOW WILL THESE PROBLEMS BE SOLVED BY ODEM PLATFORM.
The Odem platform intends to solve the current challenges by using the power of Blockchain technology and its smart contract-based payment platform. 'Odem and its secure, Blockchain-based platform allows students to seized opportunities to access custom-designed courses and education programs. Students can use ODEM to search for curriculum that meets their needs'.
With Odem business model;
(I) Students can access both local and international onsite, and in- person educational experiences.
(II) Odem business model bring together the students, educators and service providers to communicate and participate directly in a secure environment.
(III) Odem model will provide a more efficient way of Sharing and understanding educational requirements, goals and details to meet the rapidly changing workforce and the globalization of students and educators.
(IV) Odem model also provides a single, real time system of negotiation which covers curriculum description as well as payment on an agreed-upon schedule.
(V) This model also make provision for back-and-forth language translation at all levels of education procurement, so language can never be a barrier.
So...obviously, the solution lies on Odem model.

THE ODEM TEAM AND PARTNERS
Advisory Board:
✅STEVE JARDING......Education And Leadership Curriculum Adviser
✅ INGO FIEDLER,..... Blockchain And Economic Advisor.
✅ SVEN BEIKER, ....... Technology Advisor.
✅ SICOS.......Legal And Crowdsale Advisory
✅ KPMG.......Legal And Compliance Advisory
CORE TEAM:
✅RICHARD MAAGHUL,.......CEO
✅ J. WILLIAM BAYRD II,......... COO
✅ MICHAEL ZARGHAM, ..... Chief Systems Engineer
✅ AMIT GARG,.....Chief Technology Officer
✅ GUSTAVO GUIMARÃES,.......Lead Smart Contract and Blockchain Architect
✅ KEN FINCH,.....
Global Business Development
✅ CHRISTOPHER DONVILLE,...... Director of Communications
✅ JAN BASS,......
Creative Director
✅ ALEXA NARMA,...Marketing & Communications.
✅ MELISSA MATOS,......Project Management.
✅ OLIVIA LOVENMARK,...Social Media and Writing.
✅ KIRSTEN MONTGOMERY,...... Director of Finance and Resource Management.
✅ BOWEN GAO,....Director of Business Development Far East.
✅ ASAD ZAMAN,..... Education Development.
✅ KRIS YAGEL,.... Chief Program Developer.
✅ MOHIT BANSAL,......Backend Systems Engineer, Salesforce Developer.
✅JILL HUANG,....Technology and Translation.
✅ KARI GEORGE,......Leadership and Project Management Consultant.
PARTNERS:
✅ KPMG Switzerland
✅ SICOS

THE ODEM SOCIAL COMMUNITY
Social community is an important consideration by most investors as they believe the community speaks volume about a project.
So...looking at Odem social community, its an interesting and encouraging one that is living up-to its responsibilities and expectations. Odem community is ever on the increase as investors from different countries of the world are joining on daily basis.
The community operates some handles such as:
Facebook handle ( 4,251 Likes & 4,329 followers),
Twitter handle (2,390 followers),
Telegram handle (10.4k participants).
Others include Bitcointalk Announcement thread, Reddit, Medium and LinkedIn.

TOKEN SALE: This will help investors to support the Odem idea/project by means of buying Odem token at varying discounted rate. The sale will happen in two phases.
(1) PRE TOKEN SALE. DETAILS
Price per ODEM (pre Token sale) for 58,200,000 ODEMT 👉€0.0375

Pre Token sale starting date and time 👉
Dec. 10, 2017, at 9 a.m. CET

Pre Token sale ending date and time 👉Dec. 31, 2017, at 9 a.m. CET

Minimum buying limit 👉
200,000 ODEMT

Maximum buying limit👉Nil

(2) MAIN TOKEN SALE. DETAILS
Price per ODEM (Token sale) for 180,000,000 👉€0.05 (equivalent price in Ether will be updated 24 hours before the Token sale)

Token sale starting date👉Feb. 17, 2018 at 9 a.m. CET

Token Sale ending date:👉 Mar. 19, 2018 at 9 a.m. CET

Hard cap on the main token sale:👉180,000,000

Minimum buying limit:👉Nil

Maximum buying limit:👉2,000,000 ODEMT tokens for first hour

In conclusion, ODEM is not a learning institution rather a marketplace that make provision for the needs of students and teachers/educators to exchange ideas.

USEFUL LINKS:
Official website: https://odem.io
Whitepaper: http://odem.io/docs/whitepaper/ODEM.IO-Whitepaper.pdf
Telegram group: https://t.me/odem_io
Bitcointalk Announcement thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2591616.0

My Bitcointalk profile:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile