School of Everything

School of Everything is an internet startup company founded in 2006 and based in London, UK. The stated purpose of School of Everything is to "connect people who can teach with people who want to learn".[2]

School of Everything
Type of site
Social enterprise, Education Marketplace
Available inEnglish
URLwww.schoolofeverything.com
Alexa rank 226,907 (April 2014)[1]
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired
Launched2 Sept 2008
Current statusMothballed

Company

School of Everything was founded by Peter Brownell, Andy Gibson, Mary Harrington, Dougald Hine and Paul Miller. The site was funded by the Young Foundation, amongst others, and won a UK Catalyst award for the social use of technology [3] and a New Statesman New Media Award 2008.[4] In 2010, School of Everything was chosen by Becta and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as its new platform for adult informal learning in the UK.[5]

Service

Via the website, learners are able to search for teachers in their area, and, similarly teachers can search for learners. Registration is free, with the site catering for teachers who charge for their lessons as well as those who offer lessons for free, or as part of a skill swap.

gollark: As much as I hate to compliment printers, we have ones at school which show how extremely cool IoT could be.
gollark: Not software integration. The M1 processors are extremely impressive in power efficiency.
gollark: Apple does have a really good CPU design team, at least.
gollark: Isn't that just survivorship bias?
gollark: I mean, a fridge with a touchscreen on the front so you can browse the web is *not* very useful. A fridge which can automatically track its inventory and remind you to order new things actually might be.

See also

References
  1. "Schoolofeverything.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. From the company website http://www.schoolofeverything.com/tour
  3. "Community network sites honoured". 26 July 2008 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2009-01-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-06-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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