I've been working with the Overseas Family School for the past few months on a contract basis, and I've managed to fit in well enough to the team structure to become their CTO. Which begs the question of why they need a CTO with an MBA, a MSCS, and experience in an emerging market?

The short answer is that if you've read TheDiamondAge, we're building that educational technology.

For everyone who remembers with a wince the classes that seemed irrelevant or just took too long to get to the next point, you already know why self-paced learning matters. Even better, once you let kids run riot through a curriculum, you've freed up: 1) the teacher time previously dedicated to correcting basic problems and 2) the class-time that everyone else is using for direct instruction. And that's just the beginning....