Sophia.org

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Sophia.org is an online social teaching and learning platform that offers academic content, free of charge. It recently acquired Guaranteach, a Web-based service that provides tens of thousands of short-form tutorials along with assessment tools to students, teaches, colleges and schools. These tutorials were previously only available on a pay-per-use basis but with this acquisition Sophia will now offer that free of charge to individual learners. Guaranteach has nearly 23,000 short-form videos on math topics ranging from counting to Calculus, more than 60,000 quiz questions, as well as assessment tools that match tutorials to the learning sytle of the learner and provide student progress reports. Sophia plans to use the the Guaranteach model to develop and offer a full range of English and science tutorials, similar to those offered in math. Sophia.org has been in public beta since March 2011. Academic information is organized in learning packets and can be created by anyone, anywhere using text, images, presentations, video, audio and more. The site is free and packets are rated for quality and evaluated for academic soundness by users and experts within the community. In addition, teachers can create invitation-only learning environments where they have the option to share their content in a private learning environment that can only be viewed by their students.