All About Us
Spaced Education, Inc. was founded in 2008 to bring the research developed by B. Price Kerfoot at Harvard Medical School into new online learning methods to a wider audience.
We offer a unique and growing learning platform, designed from the ground up for a mobile, social world. It uses a simple question and answer format combined with a proprietary adaptive algorithm to deliver better and more convenient learning experiences. SpacedEd delivers "Addictive Learning That Sticks."
The SpacedEd service is based on a patent pending method developed and used at Harvard Medical School, of which we are the exclusive commercial licensee.
Officially we are Spaced Education, Inc. but our friends just call us SpacedEd. We are headquartered in Burlington, MA.
The Problem
Existing learning methods, online and offline, are often inconvenient, boring, time-consuming and ill-suited to the younger generations of digital natives.
The Solution
SpacedEd is a social learning platform for developing and delivering online learning that offers an addictive learning experience directly to users in a simple “question a day” format. Anyone from an individual to a company or school can create and deliver courses using our tools. Anyone with access to the Web via a computer or mobile device can sign up and take courses.
Our Approach
The SpacedEd approach is predicated on a set of core principles:
- Short Repeated Bursts: Because it uses a regular schedule and an adaptive algorithm, learning can be delivered in small amounts that can take as little as 3 minutes a day.
- Push Learning: The learning comes to you on a regular schedule. You don’t have to remember to do it or set aside large chunks of time.
- Adaptive: The daily content adapts based on past performance automatically to drive long-term retention while requiring less time.
- Immediate Feedback: Once a question is answered, detailed educational feedback is provided. Users are also given performance data (their course progress and performance relative to peers) which feeds their addiction to the courses.
Proven To Work
Our method has been proven to work. Data from over 10 large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) demonstrate that it is effective, efficient, addictive and changes behavior. View some key highlights.
A 20 year veteran of the technology industry, Duncan has spent the last 16 years in the field of learning technology.
Prior to SpacedEd, he was the Principal Consultant at blurgl, Inc. a learning technology consulting company he founded in 2006.
Before that, he spent over a decade as a board member and Chief Technology Officer of WBT Systems, an enterprise eLearning software company that he co-founded in 1995.
He holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Computer Science from University College Dublin, Ireland.
Barry has 20 years experience building enterprise and consumer applications including eLearning systems.
In addition to his own technology consulting company, Swami Systems, (which built the social music site Bossa Live) he has previously held senior engineering positions at WBT Systems, Siemens Medical Solutions and Cinemaware.
He holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and is a Ruby on Rails expert.
Mr. Copperman has served as CEO and President of HDC Ventures, Inc., a management and investment group focusing on enterprise systems, software and services since March 2002. From January 2001 to March 2002, Mr. Copperman was a consultant and a private investor.
From 1993 through 1999, Mr. Copperman served as Senior Vice President and Group Executive of the Products Division at Digital Equipment Corporation where he was responsible for the companies six computer systems business units and worldwide manufacturing and distribution. He managed 22,000 employees generating $7 Billion in annual revenues.
Prior to joining Digital Equipment Corporation, Mr. Copperman served as President and CEO of the Information Services and Computer Systems units of JWP, Inc. From 1989 to 1991, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Commodore Business Machines, Inc. Prior to that he served as Vice President and General Manager, Eastern Operations for Apple Computer, Inc. (1987-1989) and from 1967 through 1987 held a number of sales, marketing and executive management positions with IBM Corporation.
Mr. Copperman has served on a number of public company Boards including America Online, Inc., 800 Software, Epicor Software and AXS-One. He currently sits on the Boards of Avocent Computers (NASDAQ: AVCT) and ID Systems (NASDAQ: IDSY) as well as a number of private companies.
Dr. Kerfoot is the inventor of Spaced Education, the learning method on which SpacedEd is based.
He is a staff surgeon (urologist) at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. The focus of Dr. Kerfoot's research has been the application of rigorous clinical trial methodologies to the evaluation of online educational technologies.
Since 2004, Dr. Kerfoot has worked to develop spaced education as an effective means by which students and clinicians could improve their learning and retention of core medical concepts.
He holds degrees from Harvard (M.D. & Ed.M.), Oxford (M.A.) and Princeton (A.B.). Dr. Kerfoot is currently the recipient of the “Rising Star” Award from the American Urological Assoc. Foundation.
Mr. Kenny is Chairman of Daft Media Limited, Ireland's largest property website. He is also a director of a number of other private companies in Ireland.
In the past 15 years, he has co-founded a number of Internet start ups: clevercactus a P2P personal information platform, WBT Systems, an eLearning infrastructure software company, and EUnet, the then largest ISP in Ireland.
Prior to that, he spent 12 years in venture capital and investment banking in New York, London and Dublin.
Before You Contact Us
Looking to get in touch? We'd love to hear form you. You may also find the following resources useful:
- If you are looking for an overview of how SpacedEd works, please see How It Works.
- For answers to commonly asked questions, please see our FAQ.
- Looking for technical support on some aspect of using SpacedEd? We've got you covered.
- Interested in SpacedEd for your organization? Allow us to tell you a little about SpacedEd Enterprise.
- Wondering who the people behind SpacedEd are? Read about our company, team and advisers.
How To Reach Us
| Mailing address |
Spaced Education, Inc.
15 New England Executive Park Burlington MA 01803 |
| Telephone | (781) 496-3001 (fax and voice) |
| General inquiries | info@spaceded.com |
| Sales | sales@spaceded.com |
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