Leo Shmuylovich, co-Founder Virtual Nerd

www.virtualnerd.com, he dropped out of an MD/PHD program at Washington University to build personalized, video-based teaching, what he calls a "dynamic whiteboard." They have pre-Algebra on up, will grow into help for professional degrees (like nursing) next.

Joe's goal was to create layers of connected mini teaching videos to make a "mindmap" - something that professionals know by heart, but are a tangled mess to beginners. With VirtualNerd, beginners can explore the mindmaps and untangle things at their own pace. This is a platform for students to enter into learning, watch videos, then find areas where they want more work and click on "learn more."

Learners can customize by keeping videos and screencasts in their own folders, even save outside videos (Khan Academy) in their folders.

And - of course- there are real time analytics. Learners' scores, and more granular data like time spent on questions, are analyzed and (if required) sent to a teacher.

But wait, there is more. If there is a wrong answer, the analytic report puts in a link to an explanation video on that issue. Learners can click on the link to see what they may have missed, or keep clicking through related videos if that didn't do the trick.

Update: Aplia started off like VirtualNerd, making dynamic on-line teaching tools (games! videos!) linked to textbooks and (later) provided analytics on student performance to teachers. Publishers were very sticky about making content that matched their textbooks.

@ndalmia Internet Cafes for Education

Taking a d.School approach , looking at the delivery of education via internet cafes (for-profit), helping to meet individual learning needs. Follow Namita on Twitter @ndalmia

Update: This will be an after school tuition "replacement" (currently students in developing countries pay teachers for extra tuitions after schools). It will also offer certification in skills.

Update: Host reduced priced hours (like immediately after school) sponsored by corporates or other donors.

post-iStanford

Andrew Bellamy launched CreditU for Stanford, http://itunes.apple.com/app/id434327322, to reward students for getting to class on time. Rewards: cutting in line at Ikeas, coffee at Coupa, get enough tokens get a signed Toby FOOTBALL! They are on day 9, already gone through 4 iterations.

Why? really nice to get a "point," create a personal feedback loop to show reward for the effort.

Update: business model includes on-campus vendors participate

What is next? Creating points for attending/participating in community events, like athletic events and campus scavenger hunts.

Check out the Chron of Higher Ed article! chronicle.com/article/The-Slow-Motion-Mobile-Campus/127380

e-Portfolios for K-12 www.rrripple.com

Theme for class today is: everything is going virtual, how can that help you manage the real, physical world.

Hearing from Heather, the CEO of Rripple digital ePortfolios for student and teachers: One place to integrate all your multimedia, class by class in a student-friendly (private) and teacher-friendly way.

Capitalizing this move into "Web 3.0" where all of our stuff is in the cloud. Imagine sending a ZIP file of your portfolio as part of your application to college, a portfolio you've cultivated since 7th grade and pulled together. You can even use templates provided by Rripple.

"Lifeflow management for the Millennials" and such. Ain't it cool?

Update: This helps "unbundle" credentials, not just from diplomas but from the vast variety of experiences we can hold in our portfolios.

Update, June 1: talking about the immediate NEED for this... "save this for life" pitch to the parents? is that the real need? is there a real need for keeping stuff? Or do you have anything that can come out of the ePortfolios that are ACTIONABLE. Like, a consultant that can say to parents "OK, your 11 year old is really gifted in X or Y, we're going to keep tabs on that." Like a way to read the blind spots that parents may not see for themselves. Like a very contextualized consultant who can say where your kid is achieving, with an eye towards curating the portfolio for later college applications.

1,001 Stories

Paul 's 1,001 Stories Project http://seedsofempowerment.org/what-we-do/1001-stories.html are available on Amazon and iTunes, totally volunteer led and driven stories as developed by children in rural villages, including Rwanda, Uganda, and India around the world. Paul's idea is to do 1,001 stories in his lifetime. The one problem: The children's stories are really rough stuff, they love high drama of love and death.

Search the iTunes for "Seeds of Empowerment." Powerful stuff.

The objective is to fill the gap in these countries: Where there are no books there can still be stories from the children themselves, downloaded onto their parent's phones (non-smart phone versions can be made available).

And check out StoryCorps, from the Library of Congress.

Ideas: create this to be the iPhone version of the UNICEF greeting card.

David Chanin

David, an EE student from the "other" side of campus, presented his tool for teachers to help them analyze how students are doing, in real time.

His prototype, developed with a CS guy and and MBA on campus, is for K-12 teachers.

Update: He is getting feedback on who else is working in this space, and how he can create an advantage with a "hand in my homework" app, where students can take a picture of their homework, and this will be sent to the teacher interface which will help automatically grade the homework and put the results into the teacher's individual (for that student) and class analytics. Also, how to get over the hurdle of "teachers write homework questions for their students" and they don't like to accept pre-done assignments.

Response: EduSoft only used for really big assessments, there is still a niche for new analytic tools for K-12 teachers. And the sell point this is analytics, not pre-written homework.

Also, administrators are asking teachers to do analytics, but not telling them how.

Learning Management Systems

LMS= not really the future, it about mobile


Look over elluminate.com; ecollege.com; blackboard.com; moodle.org

And then check the blackboard app

Nitin Kumar and symynd.com

Nitin Kumar, Ph.D.,CEO and Founder
He is creating a Facebook for Education, where they connect students, profs, and content "makers" like texbook publishers
http://www.symynd.com/
Nitin Kumar founded SyMynd in 2008 when he was working at Intermolecular, Inc. as Program Manager for Solar and Energy business unit managing > $6M projects. Nitin joined Intermolecular in 2005 as fourth employee and has been instrumental for Intermolecular's growth to 140 employees. He played critical role in developing software/hardware technology and business/sales/marketing strategy from the earliest stages.
Before this, Nitin was at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University. He received Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the City University of New York, and B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.