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#64 - Is there such a thing as a traditional publisher? 0

Apr 16, 2017

Who owns innovation? And why is the word publisher naughty?

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What's in this episode?

Introduction and recording with the Japan Prize 1-9.00. Enter The Japan Prize Edu Resources - it's free and you might get flown to Tokyo! (more details below)
Interview with Steve Connolly, Group Digital Director, Hodder 09.00-24.00
Message from Class Central 24 - 25.30
Interview with Filippo Aroffo, Programme and Portfolio Manager SEM presso, McGraw-Hill Education 25.30 - 32.00

Interview with Andrea Carr, Founder, Rising Stars
32.00 - 50.00

Message from Glisser Edu 50:00 - 51.00
Outro - join us at ASU GSV!

Sample quotations:

'We are traditional publishers in that we publish traditional books, but…we’ve been innovating for ten 15 years. We’ve invested significant amounts of money, our money, not investor money.’

'I would like to explore whether edtech in and of itself needs to be innovative in terms of what it does and in terms of the needs its serving, for its own sake.'

'It’s not about textbooks anymore its about helping students to reach their potential'

Experience would say that it’s still worth putting things in the post to teachers.

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Steve Connolly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connollysteve/
GCSE Pod: https://twitter.com/GCSEPod
Hodder Edu: https://twitter.com/HodderSchools
Hachette: https://twitter.com/hachetteuk
Rising Stars: https://twitter.com/risingstarsedu
Don't Make Me Think: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/0321344758
Steve Krug: https://twitter.com/skrug
Message from Class Central
Filippo Aroffo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filippo-aroffo-7a97625/
McGrawHill: https://twitter.com/mhhighered
Liverpool University: https://twitter.com/LivUni
Coventry University: https://twitter.com/covcampus
Andrea Carr: https://twitter.com/andreacarr1
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Octopus Publishing: https://twitter.com/Octopus_Books
Havering: https://twitter.com/LBofHavering
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It's been more than half a decade since free online courses from Stanford kicked off the modern-MOOC or massive online open courses movement. Since then more than 700 universities around the world have launched MOOCS, used by over 60 million people. Gaining insight into this fast paced world is worth spending time on (especially for those implicated by such changes). That’s where Class Central comes in.

Class Central launched at the end of 2011, and has kept track of the MOOC space right from the beginning. Not only does it list 7000+ courses, making it the #1 search engine for online courses, but the excellent MOOC report blog has deep analysis on what’s up, down, new or just slightly leftfield. With over 500+ articles written, Class Central has the most comprehensive coverage of the MOOC Industry.

I came across Class Central when I was preparing for a Department for International Trade webinar I was speaking on and found it invaluable. Since then, I met founder Dhawal Shah out at SXSWedu and he was excited to share the resource with all

of you. So definitely go and check it out at www.class-central.com/report/ and let me know what you think!

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#63 - Bett Edtech Trends 4: Gaming, apps, coding, AR, & audio 0

Apr 9, 2017

On gaming, apps, coding, AR, & audio

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What's in this episode?

Introduction 0-4.15
- Jaz Ampaw-Farr TED Talk
- Message from Glisser Edu
- Message from Class Central
- GLF Schools Showcase exhibitors & speakers
4.15 - 21.45 Interview with Raul Gutierrez, Founder and CEO, TinyBop on engaging apps
21.45 - 26.20 Interview with Alice Lacey, CEO & Co-Founder at now press play on engaging audio
26.20 - 34.55 Interview with Ed Barton, CEO, Curiscope on engaging AR and VR
34.55 - 42.30 Interview with Mark Overland, Head of Education, Primo Toys on engaging creativity and coding
42.30 -55.45 Interview with Srinivas Mandyam, CTO, Tynker on engaging creativity and coding
Outro 55:45 - 57.30 - with offer from ELTJam using code ‘edtechpod.’ Nice one.

Sample quotations:

I’ve worked always at the intersection of entertainment and art

I was never a good enough coder to call myself a coder. I was never a good enough designer to call myself a designer, but I was good enough at both to recognise who was really great.

The very first thing that I wrote before I wrote the company name is designing for quiet. How do we encapsulate the best parts of an analogue childhood in a digital realm?

What do you think about Betsy Devos? I think she’s a disaster!

I think assessment is driving education in the wrong direction.

We wanted to contextualise learning about the body by literally going beyond the skin.

All off us are geek dads, I guess

Who doesn’t like flying drones right?