What’s featured in this episode?
- The varying business models of online and offline edtech start ups
- Online and real-life learning platforms as an opportunity to enhance student progression within the work place
- How do online and real-life learning platforms sit alongside University degrees?
- Advice to edtech start ups from Howdo and Crehana
Quotations:
From Howdo:
- ‘We believe that it’s really important still for educational learning - especially of adults - to not just take place online’
- ‘We are starting in London and that’s because there is such a rich variety of classes and courses already here.’
- ‘Real-life learning is about workshops, classes and in-person courses to have a learning experience.’
- ‘We are focusing solely on offline currently.’
- ‘Maybe they are a closet artist and take a life-drawing course for the first time’
- ‘Soundcloud was an amazing experience and a fantastic start-up learning experience.’
From Crehana:
- ‘There is no type of online training solutions for them in their own local language. There is a high concentration of online education companies in English, but when we look at emerging markets such as Latam or Eastern Europe there is actually no type of supply.’
- ‘We launched Crehana a year ago and we now have more than 115, 000 users from 15 countries in Latam and Spain. We are solving a huge pain which is access to high quality education.’
- ‘we target all of the creative professionals - aspiring creatives and independent freelancers.’
- ‘Right now we are focusing on doubling down in Spain and Latam, but we think we will enter Brazil by the end of 2016.’
- ‘We want to solve access to high quality education in emerging markets.’
Reading and resources:
Emerge Education
Edspace
Crehana
Howdo
Soundcloud
FutureLearn
Khan Academy