2U is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service platform providing schools with the comprehensive operating infrastructure they need to attract, enroll, educate, support, and graduate students globally. Blending live face-to-face classes, dynamic course content, and real-world learning experiences, 2U’s No Back Row approach ensures that every student can experience the high-quality university education for the most successful outcome. The platform partners with universities to offer online degree programs. 2U supplies universities with the tools, expertise, capital, and global recruiting needed to compete in a space currently dominated by unexceptional programs, while developing state-of-the-art technology platforms that enhance traditional offline curricula to create transformative instruction using the best educational and Web 2.0 technologies. The platform provides the vital logistical components of any online program, including comprehensive student support services from enrollment through graduation and beyond as well as practical learning experiences within distant communities around the country. 2U partners with colleges and universities to deliver the world’s best online degree programs so students everywhere can reach their full potential. It was launched in 2008 and is based in Hanover, M.D.
Our mission is to connect professionals to the content they need to get ahead and become better at what they do. We believe that reading opens doors, whether that’s performing better at work, mastering a craft or learning something new. Feedly is the app that connects curious minds with the blogs, websites and sources of content they are most passionate about. Feedly Cloud is the infrastructure that powers feedly, and an ecosystem of 200+ reading apps (http://feedly.com/apps.html). feedly Cloud is two-sided market place which connects publishers to intent readers.
IREX is a global development and education organization. We strive for a more just, prosperous, and inclusive world—where individuals reach their full potential, governments serve their people, and communities thrive. We focus on people, not on vaccines, roads, or wells. With an annual portfolio of $80 million and 400 staff worldwide, we work with partners in more than 100 countries in four areas essential to progress: cultivating leaders, empowering youth, strengthening institutions, and increasing access to quality education and information.
Nearpod is an all-in-one solution for the synchronized use of iPads in the classroom that makes lectures more engaging through interactive multimedia presentations. With Nearpod, teachers can create mobile presentations, engage students in class, and assess them in real time. The fast adoption of tablet computing and mobile devices is having a profound impact on education. Nearpod allows educators to very easily take their existing presentations, convert them into mobile-friendly content, and engage all students to convert them into active classroom participants. Teachers can deliver their existing content through mobile (iOS or Android) devices and get instant feedback from students through interactive features like polls, quizzes, drawing activities, and others.
Nexford University enables greater social and economic mobility across the world by providing learners with access to high-quality, affordable, dynamic education that prepares them for the global workplace. We offer a next-generation, fully online learning experience that will positively impact millions of lives around the world. NXU aims to demonstrate a more effective way of aligning credentials to the workforce--one that is far better positioned to give any learner, regardless of starting point, an educational foundation for lifelong success. We do this through curricular innovation, leadership in learning analytics and the development of models and tools that enable personalization and impact at scale.
Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. Peace Corps’s work is generally related to social and economic development. Normally each program participants and Peace Corps volunteers are American citizens with college degrees and who have worked abroad for a period of two years after three months of training. Volunteers of Peace Corps work with governments, schools, non-profit organizations, non-government organizations, and entrepreneurs in education, hunger business, information technology, agriculture, and the environment. After 24 months of service, volunteers are able to request an extension of service. Peace Corps was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961.