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I'd of thought you'd make more by affiliate sales from course books than Adsense. Look at book publishers/distributors/retailers and see what percentage they're offering for referrals. You could start doing book reviews on your website (in fact, you could let your users review and rate the books).
Also, and this is something I was toying with myself, if your users are studying for exams, you might want to start a directory of teachers, since students often want to pay for a few 1:1 lessons a few weeks before exams. Teachers could pay a one time fee, like 5€, to put a profile up with their general location. The students could pay a 5€ fee to get permission access the teachers' contact info. A one-time fee is necessary, because once they've met, they'll just cut you out of any subscription deal you had.
The other thing you might want to look at is a subscription fee to access some learning materials, such as PDFs, videos or powerpoints.
You might wish to look into using something like embedded streaming video chat (Eg Userplane), so that teachers could deliver 'one-to-many' support lessons directly from the site.
Finally, most schools now have interactive whiteboards. Perhaps you can target teachers by supplying downloadable whiteboard resources (Eg. interactive flash), or lesson plans based on the curriculum.
If anyone else has ideas, I'd love to hear them.
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