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#68 - Investment, start ups and accelerators 0

May 7, 2017

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What's in this episode?

We’re talking about: Where is money currently being invested into edtech? What are the various accelerators/incubators focusing on and why? How does edtech differ from Vietnam to Israel to Japan to the USA?
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).
Interviews with Matt Candler, Founder + CEO, 4.0 Schools
Chian Gong, Investor, Reach Capital
Phil Kim, Co-Founder, Michelson Runway EdTech Accelerator | President, The Michelson 20MM Foundation
Mayra Lombera, Director, Strategic Initiatives, The Michelson 20MM Foundation
Avi Warshavsky, CEO at MindCET
Tomoko Haneda, Afrel Co. , Ltd. on behalf of Edtech Japan
T.T. Nguyen Duc, VC, Pearson Affordable Learning Fund

Message from Class Central
Message from Glisser Edu

Sample quotations:

How do you measure an idea when it’s in that early phase?

A lot of that capital exists in fairly old school publishers which are very much incentivised to continue in the existing system.

I believe in the power of students as teachers.

We’re really thinking about getting students from cradle to college

There were definitely moments where school wasn’t that great for me.

As an alternative to student debt, we could invest in the future of students through an equity vehicle.

We are putting together an investors table or fund, investing in start ups in Israel and the UK

The You Tubers are the new teachers. They are like rockstars.

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References:

Enter The Japan Prize: The Japan Prize Edu Resources
The Edtech Podcast at London Edtech Week
ASU GSV Summit: https://twitter.com/asugsvsummit
Matt Candler https://twitter.com/mcandler
4.0 Schools https://twitter.com/4pt0schools
Chian Gong: https://twitter.com/ChianChirps
Reach Capital: https://twitter.com/reachfund
Phil Kim, Co-Founder, Michelson Runway EdTech Accelerator: https://twitter.com/MichelsonRunway
President, The Michelson 20MM Foundation: https://twitter.com/Michelson20mm
Mayra Lombera, Director, Strategic Initiatives, The Michelson 20MM Foundation: https://twitter.com/Mayra_Lombera
Avi Warshavsky: https://twitter.com/aviwarshavsky
CEO at MindCET:https://twitter.com/MindCET
Tomoko Haneda: https://twitter.com/tropicana_ave
Afrel Co. , Ltd. on behalf of Edtech Japan: https://twitter.com/EdTech_Japan
T.T. Nguyen Duc: https://twitter.com/ttnguyenduc
VC, Pearson Affordable Learning Fund: https://twitter.com/AffordableLearn
Walton family foundation: https://twitter.com/WaltonFamilyFdn
Kauffman foundation: https://twitter.com/KauffmanFDN
Gates Foundation: https://twitter.com/gatesfoundation
Patrick Taylor foundation: http://www.pftaylorfoundation.org/
The Booth-Bricker Fund
Lisa Delpit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Delpit
Stephen Johnson Where good ideas come from
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-Innovation-x/dp/0141033401
Green Tech Media, The Energy Gang: https://www.greentechmedia.com/podcast/the-energy-gang
Nearpod: https://twitter.com/nearpod
New Schools Venture Fund: https://twitter.com/nsvf
Dreamit: https://twitter.com/dreamit
LearnLaunch: https://twitter.com/LearnLaunch
Intel: https://twitter.com/IntelEDU
Newsela: https://twitter.com/Newsela
ClassDojo: https://twitter.com/ClassDojo
Edsurge: https://twitter.com/EdSurge
School mint: https://twitter.com/school_mint
Rice University: https://twitter.com/RiceUniversity
Hewlett foundation: https://twitter.com/Hewlett_Found
University Ventures Fund: https://twitter.com/UniVenturesFund
Pearson: https://twitter.com/pearson
McGraw-Hill: https://twitter.com/MHEducation
Pets: https://twitter.com/pets4ok
Primo Toys: https://twitter.com/primotoys
The Edtech Podcast Spring Playlist!
Message from Class Central
Message from Glisser Edu

Thank you to this week's sponsors!

Enter The Japan Prize 2017!...

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Next up, a word from ClassCentral which if you’re into geeking out over online learning and MOOC reports like I am you’ll probably already know about!

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!

This is an easy one for me as I regularly use Glisser at events because I frankly find it a bit WEIRD when there are people staring at you but you ignore them! Glisser is an audience engagement platform, and they also have an education offer for socialising lectures where they take regular PowerPoint or Keynote presentations and push each slide out live to student’s mobile devices as they are presented. Professors, administrators and students get valuable data on where information is really engaging, or needs reworking and staff and students can interact through the deck. You can check them out at https://www.glisser.com/student-engagement/

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#67 - SXSWedu 17 Edtech trends: Higher Education & MOOCs 0

Apr 29, 2017

Thank you to this week's sponsors Japan Prize 2017 Glisser Edu and ClassCentral!
Big shout out to Dhawal Shah of Class Central in the US, Chantal Schoenbaechler and the team at Pi-Top and Rachel Doyle of Crazy Fig Marketing for signing up as our first Patrons.
Please check out our Patreon campaign launch and our Listener Survey.

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).

Interviews with:

Simon Nelson, CEO, FutureLearn

Brian MacDonald, Director Residential Education, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Dhawal Shah, Founder, Class Central

Niklas Jungegård, Founder and CEO at Sqore

Message from Class Central

Message from Glisser Edu

Sample quotations:

There’s been a real acceleration in the last few years BUT I wouldn’t say I know of a single institution that I think is moving fast enough

What you’re seeing is the modularisation of the whole process of gaining a degree qualification

What are students learning from one another in a dining hall, doing community service, doing an internship, from their room mates?

i think in the edtech world moocs is a dirty word. It’s only in the edtech world, in the consumer world moocs are still a nice world when you go to normal people

96% of all university presidents believe that they had the right skilled people graduating from their colleges, but only 11% of students believe the same..

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References:

Enter The Japan Prize: The Japan Prize Edu Resources

London Edtech Week

ASU GSV Summit: https://twitter.com/asugsvsummit

Class Central ; Pi-Top ; Rachel Doyle - new Patrons!

Simon Nelson: @urbangenie

FutureLearn: @FutureLearn

Brian MacDonald: @beanpole_brian

UCLA: @UCLA

Dhawal Shah: @UCLA

Niklas Jungegård:@NiklasJungegard ‏

Sqore: @sqore

British Council: @BritishCouncil

Deakin University: @Deakin

Manchester Business School: @MBSnews

Dimples Wigs: http://www.dimplesusa.com/uk-index#let-go-2-1

Educate: https://twitter.com/EducateLDN

Simon Sinek Start with Why: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/0241958229

Edsurge: https://twitter.com/EdSurge

Coursera: https://twitter.com/coursera

Udacity: https://twitter.com/udacity

Lynda.com: https://twitter.com/lynda

Georgia Tech and EDx: https://www.class-central.com/report/oms-analytics/

London Business School: https://twitter.com/LBS

University of Edinburgh: https://twitter.com/EdinburghUni

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