Adaptive Content: Game Changing Technology

• More than 500 million young people worldwide lack access to quality secondary education including millions in urban USA

Expensive and ineffective

• Virtually no productivity improvement despite a substantial increase in investment; 2x in the USA over the last 15 years

• Print-centric batch processing of age cohorts is boring, ineffective, and unproductive

• Highly encumbered decentralized system can not meet objective of all students college/career ready

• 2^nd gen digital content is engaging and personalized-a big improvement over flat and sequential 1st gen content

• Powerful application development platforms and social networks are making development less expensive and delivery personalized

• Engaging personalized adaptive content will provide first significant change in learning productivity

• Personalized learning enables staffing & facilities productivity in environments that blend the best of online & onsite

• 90% students/families want/need physical school setting

•  Innovative adaptive learning tools

o   Facebook-like customization/networking

o   World of Warcraft level engagement/customization

o   iTunes U lectures & videos from the world’s best

•  Hybrid formats that blend online/onsite learning

o   High Tech High meets K12

o   Potential for 2x staffing & facilities productivity

•  For-profit biz models encourage speed, scale, and quality

•  Foundations have long time horizons and can mitigate risk

•  Local, state & federal government creates space to innovate

•  Advocacy efforts to shape public will and public policy

•  Philanthropic investment in supporting org at NSVF

•  Profit recycle creates long-term large-scale impact potential