Emily Foote Founded ApprenNet to Create Practical eLearning Solutions
ELearning and education technology are two of the hottest areas in the tech industry currently. Startups are attacking this area from many different angles. While some companies, such as Coursera, are trying to transplant the traditional experience of college-level education onto the Internet, many other companies are trying alternative methods to propagate learning on the web and through technology. One such cool person who is working to accomplish this is Emily Foote. Foote is the co-founder and vice president of curricular design at ApprenNet. ApprenNet is a web-based learning tool that Foote and her colleagues designed to promote educational discussion about a variety of topics. Foote is a co-founder of the company and an originator of the idea. She handles the curriculum and the application of it ApprenNet programs while her partners and other co-founders—Karl Okamoto and Paul Tzen—handle other aspects of the company. Okamoto works with business aspects as CEO and Tzen is the engineer who builds the backbone of ApprenNet’s software. Since Foote and her team designed the ApprenNet product for use in large institutions, organizations that want to use the product will need large-scale computer support help to integrate and maintain it. Read more »
