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DROPPING out of university to launch a start-up is old hat. The twist with Joseph Cohen, Dan Getelman and Jim Grandpre is that their start-up aims to improve how universities work. In May 2011 the three founders quit the University of Pennsylvania to launch Coursekit, soon rebranded as Lore, which has already raised $6m to develop what Mr Cohen, its 21-year-old chief executive, describes as a "social-learning network for the classroom". 从大学辍学创办公司早已不是什么新鲜事了。约瑟夫•科恩、丹•吉利特曼（音译Getelman）和吉姆•格朗普利（音译Grandpre）也加入其中，创办了一家专为大学改善教学的公司。 2011年5月，这三位创始人从宾夕法尼亚大学退学，创办了Coursekit，不久后更名为Lore。公司现已募集了6百万的资金，用其21岁CEO科恩的话来说，就是发展一种"社会学习网络课堂"。 Lore is part of a trend that builds on the familiarity with social networking that has come with the success of Facebook. It customises the rules of a network to meet the specific needs of students. Anyone teaching a class would reasonably worry that students using Facebook were gossiping rather than learning useful information from their network of friends. Lore allows teachers to control exactly who is in the network (by issuing a class-membership code) and to see how they are using it. They can also distribute course materials, contact students, manage tests and grades, and decide what to make public and what to keep private. Students can also interact with each other. | 
