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You Can Learn, Inc. Joseph F. Tavolacci, CEO / President Robert S. Colombo, Chief Knowledge Consultant Peter Yates, Vice President Operations 31 January 2014

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You Can Learn, Inc. Joseph F. Tavolacci, CEO / President Robert S. Colombo, Chief Knowledge Consultant Peter Yates, Vice President Operations. Introduction. YCL is a Delaware C Corp (transitioning from a Florida S Corp – will be completed 1 st Qtr 2014) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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You Can Learn, Inc.

Joseph F. Tavolacci, CEO / PresidentRobert S. Colombo, Chief Knowledge Consultant

Peter Yates, Vice President Operations

31 January 2014

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Introduction YCL is a Delaware C Corp (transitioning from a

Florida S Corp – will be completed 1st Qtr 2014) YCL is an educational facilitator – our business

objective is to enhance, expand, customize and improve the efficacy of the educational process.

Investments to date have been approximately $250 K (Founders Joseph & Eugenia Tavolacci $185 K and others $65 K)

The YCL team is comprised of a group of knowledgeable, experienced, capable and passionate educators and technologists.

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Presentation Overview We will:• Briefly describe the problem and related issues • Introduce YCL’s solution – our Advanced Adaptive

LearningTM Methodology (YCL’s AAL)• Review the financial aspects of the solution• Provide a overview of competition and current adaptive

learning entities• Briefly discuss traction and past accomplishments• Describe the market opportunity• Present the You Can Learn team• Close with a brief summary

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The ProblemDifferent people learn different subject matter at different speeds, through different modalities and in different schedule scenarios.

Current educational development methods: do not fully satisfy the needs and desires or fit

the lifestyles of 21st century learners. have not keep pace with available state of the

art technologies. do not fully apply the concepts of Pedagogy

(the science of learning) as required.

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The SolutionThe YCL-Advanced Adaptive LearningTM Methodology:

Addresses each of the defined problems and delivers an adaptive learning experience in multiple degrees of complexity on any desired platform.

Includes a common core development approach that enhances standard content using proprietary tools and templates to create the delivered YCL formatted content.

Uses a cloud based technology for content distribution, application maintenance and analytics of all metrics.

Includes a complete set of tools and templates that expedite the development process and can be licensed to institutions, publishers and third parties as required.

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The Financial AspectsBuyers Motivations –

Multiple studies show that educators and individuals need and demand new technologies and methodologies for content developers and students or they risk being at an extreme disadvantage.

YCL’s AAL Customer Cost – YCL’s AAL applications are all inclusive and yet they will cost about the

same as standard required study material or less.

Cost to Produce – YCL’s AAL concept is designed around common core content using the

YCL toolset and templates, thus keeping cost at a minimum while maintaining consistency and quality.

Further once developed for a single platform a YCL AAL application can be played on any platform using the free YCL platform players without any additional development cost.

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YCL’s Advanced Adaptive Learning Methodology Distribution, Maintenance and Delivery System

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Course Developer

User N

User 1

Course Maintenance

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A Brief Discussion on Competition Per a review of existing Adaptive Learning Developers

Current available products and solutions are limited at best and don’t contain all of the advantages of the YCL-AAL concepts.

Each competitor’s product is designed for a single platform (it is a unique application).

YCL’s AAL Exclusive Features Cloud based application distribution and maintenance – via the YCL cloud-

based servers – one update to the database updates all like apps worldwide regardless of platform.

One copy of enhanced subject content is stored in the cloud and can be played on any of the YCL’s Platform Players

YCL’s AAL Methodology, toolsets and templates will be available on a license bases to third parties (institutions, businesses, publishers and etc.)

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Adaptive Learning Competition (1 of 2) Competition and Adaptive Learning Use

ALEKS Corporation - An online assessment and learning company, uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine what a student knows and doesn't know in a course.

Carnegie Learning - A publisher of math curricula offers adaptive math software (known as the Cognitive Tutor) to high school students, along with traditional textbook offerings.

CogBooks - An adaptive learning platform in the corporate sector since 2006, with numerous F500 clients and corporate training partners.

eSpindle Learning - A nonprofit maintaining an online vocabulary and spelling coaching program based on the adaptive learning concept.

Grockit - An online learning company currently using adaptive learning technology for its online test-prep courses and plans to apply it to a wide range of educational markets.

Knewton - An adaptive learning company that has developed a platform to personalize educational content.

Continued On Next Slide

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Adaptive Learning Competition (2 of 2) Competition and Adaptive Learning Use (Continued)

KnowRe - An adaptive learning solution for mathematics that provides real-time assessments, an individualized curriculum tailored to each student, uses a game-like environment.

McGraw-Hill Education - A content, software and services-based education company that most notably uses adaptive learning technology in McGraw-Hill LearnSmart.

Pearson - An education company whose adaptive SuccessMaker software provides elementary and middle school reading and math instruction.

PrepMe - An online learning company currently uses adaptive learning technology for test preparation, K-12 education, and professional development.

Sherston Software - A UK education software company, offers PlanetSherston, an adaptive learning platform.

Smart.fm - A social learning and community website, uses adaptive learning technology with the goal of increasing learning speed and retention.

Smart Sparrow - An adaptive learning platform that offers instructional designers and teachers integrated tools to create, publish and analyze their own adaptive content.

In conclusion, our analysis showed that no other single entity addresses and includes all of the YCL’s advanced adaptive learning enhancements.

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Traction – Accomplishments andIn Progress Developments

YCL’s accomplishments to date Developed and currently available for sale 20+ simple apps (in Spanish & English)

Have established a solid team of dedicated professional educators and developers

Filed two provisional patents & four trademarks protecting our existing intellectual property

Invested over 5,000 hours in framework and development / deployment technology efforts

YCL’s current system development status Completing the first full featured YCL-AAL Pilot app (February 2014)

Finalizing infrastructure, cloud access and player configurations (February 2014)

Finalizing the Advance Adaptive Learning toolset and templates (Mid 2nd Qtr 2014)

Implementing and releasing all current apps for Android and Windows 8 by end 1st Qtr 2014

Completing the BB full featured app – Space Science (4 Levels / 28 Lessons / 80 + Learning Objectives)

YCL’s New Revenue Generating Efforts – (Letters of intent are available) Developing a pilot App with USF Department of Undergraduate Research - Dr. R. Pollenz

Pilot App with USF Education and Hillsborough School District - Flip Classroom Project - Dr. L. Plank

Developing a pilot with Medicalistics – Dallas TX Medical S/W Company – Chris Russell / Robert Francis

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YCL’s Market Opportunity

The YCL product concepts can be applied to all educational disciplines. Just considering the current worldwide self paced (adaptive learning)

market it is estimated to reach 49.9 billion dollars by 2015*. More importantly the self-paced (adaptive learning) market is

expected to have a compound growth rate of 9.2% per year*. Therefore the adaptive learning market alone represents an ever

expanding opportunity. By mid year 2014 YCL’s AAL development and distribution tools and

templates will be available for licensing, which expands our marketing opportunities extensively.

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* As defined in an Ambient Research Study - published in 2013.

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YCL’s Methodology Can Be Applied To

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The YCL TeamTeam Member Title YRE** Joined Team *

Joseph F Tavolacci President and CEO 45 + At Inception*

Dr. Robert S Colombo Chief Knowledge Consultant 35 + December 2012

Dr. Peter Yates Vice-President Operations 40 + January 2014

Nancy Howl Vice President Marketing 25 + January 2014

Dr. Henrick Jeanty Director of Technical Research 20 + July 2012

Mark Turner; MS; MBA

Director of IS & Apps Development 5 + At Inception*

Theresa L. Woods, MA Director of Content Development 3 + At Inception*

Yash Singh Director of Advanced Research 2 + December 2012

Jessica Snell Content Management Coordinator 2 + July 2013

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* You Can Learn, Inc Inception was Jan 2012 - ** Years Related Experience

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In Summary Currently there is need for adaptive learning to satisfy known

deficiencies, needs and learner requirements. YCL’s AAL is a solution that addresses development, delivery

and maintenance issues second to none. The proposed solution and products are in demand and can be

delivered to potential customers on an extremely cost effective basis.

YCL has the core staff and technical resources in place and is ready to accept the challenge to become a major player in the Adaptive Learning Frontier.

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Thank YouJoseph F. Tavolacci, President / CEO

[email protected]. Robert S. Colombo, Chief Knowledge Consultant

[email protected] Dr. Peter Yates, Vice President Operations

[email protected]

Phones: (813) 995-2432 Office(813) 996-4553 Fax