8. ™
Key Features: Teachers
Guide Interaction
+ Get initial tutorial/guide on interactions + Can interact with their the other class
and our mission teacher through chat
+ Guided by steps to filling out profile/bio/ + Online chat between
learning goals matched students
Ease of Use Benefits
+ Teacher can comment on student + Lighten course load for teachers
projects-in-process and finished + Both students and teachers instant
+ Online tech support - for teachers visual gratification of the
+ Free user-friendly interactive supple- project results
mental classroom tool + Partnership in learning (teachers shar-
+ Matching tool/function to connect your ing their experiences with one another)
classroom to another
- anywhere in the world
12. ™
Key Features: Students
Guide Interaction
+ Activity drives and guides the + Side chat to discuss with buddy.
interactions between students + Connect with other class members to
create a new learning experience
+ Students learn how to interact while on
an adventure with another.
Ease of Use Benefits
+ Visual gallery to see other + More engaged students, socially and
classmates finished storybooks with the use of technology
+ Can comment on projects + Rich cultural exchange
+ Flexible media to share + Students and teachers instant visual
gratification of the project result
14. How do we sell this to companies/sponsors for actual revenue?
+ Create a more tech/multi-cultural + SEO program as an internet marketing
awareness in students at an earlier for strategy, integrated within the site, spe-
future workers cifically an analytics program providing
+ Positive press/publicity for investors/ preference results (students/teachers)
companies a. learning
b. educational tech
c. interactive tech
+ Social responsibility for corporations/ + Partnership in learning
giving back to the community
+ Investing in the future generation of
skilled workers
reference: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/financials/financials.asp?ticker=SLN:CN[0]
16. ™
Profitability Analysis
+ Epals shares similarity with our product + All the profitability factors are negative,
and service, their business is stable. it’s Return on Asset is -48%, Return on
suitable for us to use them as a refer- Capital is -105%, Return on Equality is
ence to predict the financial condition of -470%
our company
+ We can see they even their revenue is + The average of this industry is not so
raising, yet they still lost more and more different as well. Overall, it’s predictable
money. No matter net income or oper- that the profitability would be negative
ating income, even gross profit are all
negative
reference: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/financials/financials.asp?ticker=SLN:CN [1]
17. ™
SROI Calcuation
Expenses: Period: 1 year
Hardware $2,000
Software $1,000
Website Developer $36,000
(x project)
IT technician
(server maintain + technical support) $16,750
(part time 2hrs x day) [2]
Server Fee $1200
($100 x month)
Legal Fee for Launch Start-Up $6000
Internet and Other Fees: $1000
(x year)
TOTAL $114,200
reference: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Country=United_States/Salary#by_Company_Size [2]
18. ™
Benefits
Capacity: 10 classes (30 people per class)
Stakeholders Benefits Measurement Value in (USD)
Students Rich cultural exchange. Students gain more chance to
work in global company. $1000 * 10 * 30
Create a more tech/multi-cultural
awareness in students at an ear- Assuming salary raise $10,000
lier for future workers per year with 10% chance, aver-
aged benefit is $1000 (global
Partnership in learning students company has larger company
gain more chance to work in size, by reference [2], have high-
global company. er average salary) per student.
Teachers Easy to connect students across
the world.
Teacher save 30hrs work time
to find a classroom at the other $700 * 10
country to cooperate together).
averaged salary ($44,000 [3]).
Lighten course load
for teachers.
Assume emotionally, teachers
feel work less half an hour $2750 * 10
every day, by averaged salary
Hold students’ attention span $44,000 [3], benefit is $2,750
per teacher.
reference: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Country=United_States/Salary#by_Company_Size [2]
reference: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary [3]
19. ™
Benefits
Capacity: 10 classes (30 people per class)
Stakeholders Benefits Measurement Value in (USD)
Research Data/metrics of educational
technology preferences.
Save research fee; assume a
research associate can reduce $20,000
Institutions time to approach these data by
6 months. Referring the salary
from [4].
Total 700 *10 $354,500
+ 1000 *10*30
+ 2750 *10
+ 20000 =
SROI Multiple drop-off rate 10% (rec-
ommended by reference [5]).
Revenue would be $319,050.
SROI = 319050/114200 = 2.8
reference: http://www.ehow.com/about_5282588_salary-range-research-associates.html [4]
reference: http://www.thesroinetwork.org/publications/doc_details/241-a-guide-to-social-return-on-investment-2012 [5]