LearningAisle

Private-school education FREE for anyone

LearningAisle believes in creating a world where a high quality private school education doesn't mean high cost . Their goal is to disrupt and level the playing field in education by providing the entire K-12 curriculum for FREE along with a student community contributed by anyone and benefiting everyone Using social learning technology, LearningAisle has created a K12 learning environment for students that mirrors the rigor and qualities of an Ivy-League school. Student use their virtual learning environment to advance academically, question and push each other’ thinking, teach and learn from peers, and be better equipped to think through things and make good decisions in life. In LearningAisle, students and parents can browse K-12 content and select those that suit any learning style, method and pace – choose entire grades, or just individual units or lessons from any subject. Access is provided to 10,000 pages of instructional content, 21,000 assessment questions; videos from Khan Academy, PBS,and the History Channel; plus, interactive educational games. Students get to 'own' their study plan by creating ‘study lists’ (like iTunes playlists) and learning what they like and how they like to. The learning platform encourages, 'super learning,' by helping students collaborate with their peers or by choosing their own teachers and mentors. Students learn from shared study resources, teacher instructions and parent inputs… all together! Parents get to become active advisers in their kids' learning in supportive and collegial ways.