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Don SmithmierFounder & CEO, Sophia

[email protected]

Copyright 2011 Sophia Learning, LLC

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Over the next 10 years, social education will be a bigger disrupter than online courses were over the past 10 years.

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Social Disruption

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Her Normal

Her Normal•7 hours 38 minutes online

daily•78,000 text messages per

year

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University of 3 million monthly searches for academic help• 1 million Biology• 850k College Algebra • 500k Calculus • 350k English Composition

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• Social teaching & learning platform• Academic only• Designed for teachers, students, parents,

tutors• Enables innovation & creativity• A filter for quality & credibility• Free

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We want to flip the student-teacher ratio.

Rather than one teacher for 30 students 30 teachers for every student

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Easy to refine search categories

Credible content rated by users and

academic professionals

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Students and teachers connect using learning

packets

Organized to teach similar topics

And mapped into over 1,000 different competencies

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Social learning community

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Users from 110 different countries in 10 days.

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Teach what you know, Learn what you don’t.

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