Stanford’s School of Education isn’t an incubator in the strictest sense of the word, but the resources and support offered to students in its edtech programs has made it a fertile breeding ground for the next generation of edtech startups, entrepreneurs, and ideas. Masters students in its Learning, Design, and Technology program are required to complete research or to build their own applications that can help facilitate learning which are then showcased at a yearly expo. While not every idea will go on to become an edtech phenomenon, some students will go on to start their own businesses and even those who don’t often take on key development roles in building edtech in at places like Kaplan, NASA, Microsoft, Knewton, and 2tor.