Online Learning Portal For Youth In Myanmar

My idea is an online learning platform that will provide a great way for youth and teacher to share educational content, and provide a great environment for youth to learn online.

Solutions

Recommendation of Content Customized for the Student: With a feed of open content data, we can run some simple learning style algorithms to construct lesson plans based on how a student learns best.

Self-Paced Learning: Crowd-sourced content creation allows students to have access to dozens if not hundreds of courses (many on the same topic) that allow them to learn at their own pace, and in a way specific to their own needs.

Group Learning: We can contextualize learning, by creating online study groups. We can affect competitiveness on the platform for students, by matching them to peers for problem solving exercises on the platform.

Problems

A lot of content driven learning experiences can easily be created online, and yet the majority of students are still reliant on the consistent quality of tuition in schools. 

A lot of great teachers are spending 75% of class time, delivering content to students, when they could be helping them with problems or constructing contextualized learning environments.  The cost of providing teachers for non core subjects, and AP/Honor Classes can be prohibitive for a lot of schools.

1,845,006 AP Students in 2009-2010 (Source: College Board), grown by 50% in the past 5 years.

Potential Pivots:

Test Prep (GRE, MCAT, LSAT, GMAT, etc): 1 million test takers/year 

General Content: MIT Open Courseware has 58 million users. Total market size unknown