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Supercool School Presenting at DEMO Spring 2010 (Video)

Starting an online school is one click away - a new education platform for the masses launches at DEMO Spring 2010

PRESS RELEASE

MARCH 23, 2010

PALM DESERT, CA;

Starting an online school is one click away – new education platform for the masses launches at DEMO Spring 2010

Supercool School, a white label online education platform is about to give the power of education to the masses. The landscape of education has changed as anyone can now create an online school, customize it, invite students and start teaching live over the web using the Supercool School platform.

People can now create real-time classes where students from all around the world can connect and learn together complete with streaming audio & video, and even sharing documents and presentations over the web. Every live class is recorded and stored so that thousands of students can view them afterwards. Online schools can offer classes for free or even charge for classes and turn an online school into a global education business.

According to Hoover’s more than 45,000 companies and 300,000 self employed individuals post revenues of roughly $30 billion per year in the U.S. education and training services industry. This industry is about to be revolutionized by providing people in the education industry with a revolutionary platform to create online schools with a simple click of a button.

Since Supercool School’s beta launch in January 2010, people have created over 100 new online schools in 13 different countries around the world ranging from test preparation and language learning schools to biotech and even online dating schools. To try Supercool School, go to www.SupercoolSchool.com .

 

Contact:

Steli Efti

steli@supercoolschool.com

415-794-7719

www.SupercoolSchool.com

www.twitter.com/SupercoolSchool

  

About DEMO

Produced by the IDG Enterprise events group, the worldwide DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products innovations, which are hand selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying cutting-edge technologies and helping entrepreneurs secure venture funding and establish critical business. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit http://www.demo.com/.

Is it coming? The educational revolution will empower the next global economic acceleration

Imagine a world without factory workers and farmers. But instead a society of happy & educated people with 10+ lifelong professions. People who start as nanotech engineers, work as taxi drivers while they launch a biotech startup and retire as a blogger and personal consultants for the next generations. A society & culture where we will be learning continuously - adjusting to new technologies and new economic opportunities on a day by day basis.
 
Education is already the oil that makes our society and economy work today and it will soon become the foundation underlaying our entire future global economy. Instead of capital and labour costs future economists will learn about the dynamics of education costs.
 
The education, training, consulting & research businesses has been accelerating in growth and is by far the strongest growing global industry - and that ALTHOUGH we have trillion dollar budget cuts on education, research & development. As traditional education is becoming increasingly expensive and exclusive - information becomes abundant online and informal peer to peer learning is empowered through forums, social networks, wikis, blogs, twitter, etc. As knowledge already today is outdated in a matter of months - the access to education by subject matter experts becomes the crucial competitive advantage of every individual. And this is just the beginning of a global paradigm shift that will an have an unimaginable impact on our culture today.
 
 
 
We believe a dynamic, long tail infrastructure of education will be needed to satisfy this rapidly growing demand for education word wide. The same that blogging has done to publishing will happen to education on a global scale. The education entrepreneurs will empower the next jump in our global economic growth.

What do you think?

Supercool School Presenting At Demo Spring 2010 This Tuesday 3:11pm PT

We're very excited to announce that Supercool School  is going to be presenting at Demo Spring 2010 this coming Tuesday at 3:11pm PT. You can watch the livestream directly at http://www.demo.com . If you're a supercool supporter wish us good luck and tell your friends about the upcoming 6 minute live presentation of Supercool School on Tuesday :) Click here for a list of all the presenting companies at Demo.

We deserve better - 17 Billion cut for Education in California!

Yesterday I was torn back from the future of education in todays reality of education when I stumbled in a demonstration against the 17 Billion cuts for schools and colleges in California. I am amazed how anybody could even consider saving money for public education. Its as if I would save on the food of my newborn because I need gas for my SUV. 

Following a quick interview I made with a demonstrator and some links in case you would like to get involved.

Facts:

    •    In the last two years, $17 billion was cut from schools and colleges.

    •    Entire art, music and PE programs were eliminated.

    •    More than 16,000 educators were laid off.

 

Join the demonstration here:

http://www.standupforschools.org/

http://www.cta.org/

or start taking education in your own hands and create a school on Supercool School :)