Offer a session
A verified scholar lists a lecture that can travel well across institutions.
Verified academic teaching exchange
ScholarSwap Teaching Exchange
Bring specialized scholars into your course. Offer your expertise in return through a reciprocal, manually verified teaching commons.
Pilot logic
A course exchange before a platform marketplace.
The first version is a concierge pilot: verified scholars, concrete lecture offers, specific course needs, and manual matching. Software supports the exchange only after the social mechanism is tested.
Request a session
A host instructor describes a specific syllabus gap, field, audience, and course timing.
Match manually
The pilot prioritizes field fit, institutional level, schedule feasibility, and reciprocity.
Teach and credit
A completed class exchange earns reciprocal access without charging users or scholars.
What counts
A class exchange is more than a speaker slot.
Each exchange should leave a reusable teaching trace for the host course, not just a calendar event.
Live session
Video conference or in-person visit, normally tied to one course meeting.
PDF slides
A reusable teaching artifact that gives the host instructor continuity after the visit.
Exam prompts
Optional questions, discussion prompts, or applied exercises for the faculty member.
Field fit
Scholars choose multiple fields and peer ranges.
Profiles should support broad fields, subfields, and the areas in which a scholar is willing to offer or receive guest teaching. Early matching should prefer similar or higher institutional peer contexts without making ranking mechanical.
Trust boundary
Useful reputation without public student scoring.
Manual verification first; automated verification later.
Profiles identify fields, subfields, institutional context, and eligible peer ranges.
Student feedback can inform quality, but public student ratings are not the trust layer.
No banner ads, no student-data marketplace, and no paywall for scholars or students.
Founding pilot
Start with 30-50 verified scholars and 10-15 real exchanges.
The near-term task is to recruit anchor scholars, collect lecture offers and course needs, and produce enough completed sessions to evaluate demand, trust, and administrative workload.