Startl Education

"Online learning. Kaboom! At the post-secondary level, the demand for online extended learning is growing faster and more furiously than we can keep up with, partly because it’s cheaper to participate in online courses versus paying college tuition, and partly because online courses allow flexibility for the many post-secondary students juggling work, family and school." This is the short version business model for the start-up Thinktank /slash/ Funder STARTL. Click here to read the interview with director Phoenix Wang and post-discussion on plans to infuse (buzz-word) innovation and entrepreneurial savvy into the US educational system. Startl is a consortium of foundations who together are taking a private sector approach: let the schools worry about training teachers, let's unharness access and skill development using scalable media technologies and pedagogical models.