About

NovoEd is the only online learning platform that provides a connected, effective and engaging learning environment for students using a combination of techniques in crowd sourcing, design and analysis of reputation systems, and algorithm design.

NovoEd’s philosophy is to advance the online learning experience by making online courses more experiential, interactive, and collaborative. On our platform, students not only have access to lectures by thought leaders and professors from top universities, but they are also able to form teams with people around the world and work on class projects.

NovoEd uses online learning to deliver learning opportunities at massive scale. We offer courses and programs by thought leaders in a wide range of fields and in partnership with universities. By fostering online collaboration, team work and project-based learning, we nurture problem solving, collaboration, and leadership while addressing specific topics and business opportunities.

Team

	Amin Saberi is co-founder and chief executive officer of NovoEd. He is also a professor at Stanford University where he developed an earlier version of the platform used to offer Stanford courses to hundreds of thousands of students (see http://venturelab.stanford.edu). His research focusses on the intersection of computer and social sciences and he is co-director of Social Algorithms Lab. As of January 1, 2013, he has taken a leave of absence to pursue NovoEd full time.
	Farnaz Ronaghi is co-founder of NovoEd. She designed and developed the Venture Lab platform at Stanford University where she is a PhD student in the department of Management Science and Engineering. Farnaz’s PhD thesis focuses on the creation of social incentives in online learning. Farnaz believes in the power of education to open the mind to worlds that have yet to be. Farnaz is passionate about making education more accessible while creating a collaborative, experiential and social experience. As of January 1, 2013, she has taken a leave of absence to pursue NovoEd full time.
	Anne Trumbore directs design and implementation for online classes offered on NovoEd. She has taught in, and designed curricula for, online environments at Stanford since 2004 where she developed innovative interactive teaching techniques. In 2012, she worked closely with faculty at major research instutions to design over twenty MOOCs with an emphasis on new forms of online humanities instruction. She is thrilled to be able to help extend pedagogical innovation in the online space to empower students to think in more sustained and sophisticated ways through collaboration in engaged learning communities.
	Kimball Bighorse is a software engineer for NovoEd. He studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford which paved the way for a varied career building robust Internet software. Kimball previously co-founded a successful social e-commerce company as well as helped several startups ramp up their technology. He credits his fellow classmates at Stanford as well as his professors for his excellent educational experience, and is passionate about extending the benefits of collaborative education to everyone everywhere.
	Azim Pradhan joined the Venture Lab group in Stanford in summer of 2012 and continued with NovoEd in January 2013. Prior to that, Azim worked at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he built interactive web applications for the purpose of collecting data for research on behavioral ethics. Before entering the world of software, Azim spent a year abroad, working as an Global Exchange Fellow at a center for social entrepreneurship in India, and interning at a Human Rights NGO at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
	Abrey Mann is a Software Engineer from Ukiah, CA. He recently graduated from Stanford University with a major in Symbolic Systems and concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. He is fascinated by the potential of technology to transform the environment in which people learn, and to provide a high quality educational experience that allows anyone in the world to contribute.