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Capella Education Company (NASDAQ: CPLA), a provider of exclusively online post-secondary education through its wholly owned subsidiary Capella University (www.capella.edu) has invested in an innovative startup company called Sophia - a social teaching and learning platform that integrates education with technology. Sophia was designed to connect people who want to learn with people who want to...

Popularity, interaction and “stickiness” of sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are fundamentally changing our culture. More time is being spent in front of screens (computer, TV, web, mobile); we’re valuing digital relationships and digital communication as much as personal (real life); and we expect the answer to many of our problems to be a mouse click away.

Today people are initiating...

Sophia received high marks recently when put to the test by educators and school administrators in conjunction with a recent MPR Forum hosted by Mid Morning Host Kerri Miller. Attendees at the January 26 event had a chance to try the social teaching and learning platform, and then participate in a discussion about technology’s role in the classroom.

Many topics were discussed during the hour-lo...

Minnedemo Winter 2011 - Sophia from TECHdotMN on Vimeo.

On the heels of a great writeup in Tech.mn (http://tech.mn/news/2011/01/12/sophia-learning-social-teaching-and-learning-network), Steve Anastasi (Sophia’s VP of Technology) presented Sophia at MinneDemo to a group on MN technology supporters, investors and media organizations. The format for the presentations is seven minutes long, no Pow...