What if the 232 million people who log into Zynga’s Facebook games each month instead spent hours working through online learning resources? Asks Mashable. At least where teens are concerned, a new Pearson-backed startup Alleyoop is betting the result would be more college graduates.
“Fundamentally, we’re focused on big problem of how you help a teen take control of their future,” Alleyoop [1] President Patrick Supanc tells Mashable.
He’s approaching the problem not by creating new content, as many startups in Pearson’s cornucopia of tech investments have, but by structuring existing content like a Facebook game…