{"id":64243,"date":"2015-08-28T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=64243"},"modified":"2015-08-30T04:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T12:08:21","slug":"skooli","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/skooli","title":{"rendered":"Skooli Wants to Disrupt Education with Personalized, Interactive Video Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/730\/20949095322_b9daf4e9d1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"208\" \/>Skooli is preparing to disrupt education with an online tutoring service.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver-based startup combines video conferencing with screen-sharing and virtual whiteboards to give teachers a new way to teach and students a new way to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Launched by Dave Frey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachaway.com\/teaching-jobs-abroad\/tutor-online-skooli\" target=\"_blank\">Skooli is a byproduct of Teach Away<\/a>, an international recruitment agency he and his brothers brothers, Rene and Kevin, launched in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Skooli enables parents to select a tutor from a network of qualified instructors, tailored to a student&#8217;s specific needs and schedule.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a ripe market: private tutoring is projected to surpass $100 billion globally by 2015, according to market research firm Global Industry Analysts.<\/p>\n<p>While similar, free services exist, Skooli&#8217;s paid service promises a more personalized, sophisticated experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skooli is preparing to disrupt education with an online tutoring service. The Vancouver-based startup combines video conferencing with screen-sharing and virtual whiteboards to give teachers a new way to teach and students a new way to learn. Launched by Dave Frey, Skooli is a byproduct of Teach Away, an international recruitment agency he and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":64245,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-64243","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/64243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/64243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/64245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64243"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=64243"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=64243"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=64243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}