What do I need to create an educational online market place?

[restarting_yourlife]

How Can I start an Internet service that hosts ,market, and sell online courses for students/clients and instructors.
It will not be an "accredited school and will not offer degrees or degree programs. It will be strictly virtual classrooms ,
Experts at something can come on the site and register and teach others what they know for a small fee. What type of software or hosting program will I need to accomplish something like this. I will like the students to log in and find all of their such as their lesson plan, they can update their preferences and so on.

[Ray M]

1) need the experts. Finding people who can explain things well to those who are already ahving difficulities isn't easy. They have to be able to explain things in a great variety of methods.
2) the system needs to have multiple ways to show information to the student. Not jsut text. Some things (especially math) is difficult to explain/show in text. As a math teacher who tries to help on this site, It is very difficult to say: x^2 + 4x - 7 and so on. A way for them to 'draw' or some such system would be much better then this klunky text system.
3) a good connection/set up. Easy to use. Easy to log on and access. Easy to find the area you want.

Interesting. Good luck and God bless.

[viewfromtheinside]

Take a look at what the Virtual Homeschool Group is doing. The website is at http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com/.

They are using Moodle as their LMS (learner management system). You can access information about how to get Moodle for your own site at http://www.elluminate.com/vroom/. Live, online training for both of these platforms is available at the VHSG too. I hisghly recommend joining the VHSG Ning social group. It was just set up this week so not many members are yet on, but it is an easy place to start getting to know the people that know and ask your questions. You can access the VHSG Ning group by clicking on the link on the right sidebar on the VHSG homepage. It is a friendly group, you will learn a lot there.