Point the Way Toward More Interactive Global Distance Learning Scenarios

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While abroad, Samuel Slover, 27, worked on social entrepreneurship initiatives, including microfinance programs, and taught English and business. All along, he felt under-qualified to teach the assigned curricula.

He knew there had to be a better way.  

To seize on this opportunity and bridge the expert and education gap, in 2010 Slover and his brother, who had a similar experience in Nepal and Honduras, launched Learn It Live, a web-based social-learning platform. The site’s goal is to bring online education courses to those in other countries and in the U.S.

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