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Send us Fan Mail Mario Vasilescu is co-founder of Readocracy , an online learning platform that makes all the content you consume count. Readocracy includes a knowledge profile that quantifies and showcases your passions, private insights like a “Fitbit for your information diet”, and social features that reward people for being well-informed. With his team, they are on a mission to create a futur...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Amar Kumar - Founder & CEO @ KaiPod Learning Topics: Online Tutoring Data + Efficacy Schools Pay Millions for Tutoring a16z START   American Dynamism Three Year Degrees + Loans Black women are uniquely burdened by student debt Funding + M&A Galena , WeeCare , NeighborSchools , Handshake , SkillStorm, iNeuron, Jenzabar , Entourage

Send us Fan Mail In this second part of the Postcards from ASU GSV mini-series, we talk to a wide variety of amazing Higher Ed and workforce entrepreneurs about their companies, what they're seeing at the ASU conference, and what they're seeing in the field at large. 1) Manny Smith , CEO of Edvisorly , a platform to support community college students who are transferring credit 2) Fadl ,...

Send us Fan Mail Svenia Busson is a global Learning Innovation explorer who has traveled through 19 countries to identify the most innovative technological teaching and learning practices, which she captured in her recent book, ‘Exploring the Future of Education’ .  Svenia is also a major network builder in Europe, having co-founded both Edtech France, an industry association representing 400 star...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Mehrad Yaghmai - Co-Founder of Qureos Qureos raises $3M to grow its learn to earn platform Topics This Week: Employers start to lighten debt load for learners Fund Debt-Free Education Programs End unpaid internships Free tuition lures low-income students K-12 schools in US face multiple challenges Staffing Shortages + Universal school meals 1 in 4 superintendents likely to...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, Edtech Insiders hits the road and travels to San Diego for the ASU GSV conference, the biggest and most influential Edtech conferences in the US. Rather than a single interview, this episode contains no less than EIGHT short 'hallway' interviews with all variety of amazing Edtech and education founders and influencers.  This episode focuses on in...

Send us Fan Mail Beth Porter started her career in the mathematics classroom before moving into edtech with Mathsoft and Pearson, where she was a VP of software product management. She was an VP of product at Edx in the heady MOOC days of 2014-2015, has consulted, taught at MIT and Boston University, and is most recently, the co-founder of two Edtech companies- Esme Learning, where she is the Pres...

Send us Fan Mail On this week in Edtech, we are delighted to have guest host Matthew Tower to cover the top stories of the week: Topics This Week: EdTech @ ASU+GSV Ed On The Edge: Deborah Quazzo On About What To Expect At ASU+GSV 2022  What’s the Future of ETS and Standardized Testing? A New Leader for ETS - Amit Sevak MIT Reinstates SAT/ACT Requirement Crumbling School Infrastructure This school...

Send us Fan Mail Jeanette Cheah is an award-winning education technology and business leader based in Melbourne, and raised across the US, Japan and Australia. As CEO & founder of HEX, she’s dedicated to transforming young people into the innovators the world needs tomorrow and seeing the next generation of talent thrive.  HEX prepares students for the fast-changing global workforce with the t...

Send us Fan Mail Karl Rectanus is an educator, serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of LearnPlatform, a mission-driven "for benefit" corporation, where he leads a team of educators, researchers and technologists committed to expanding equitable access for students. LearnPlatform is an Edtech effectiveness system working to deliver safe, equitable, cost-effective learning for di...

Send us Fan Mail Outschool How Outschool won the pandemic Master’s Degree Pricing Soars Ryan Craig on MasterCrash Web3 and Education Jomayra Herrera on Learning, Earning, and Web3  University Rankings Don’t Add Up Columbia Professor Challenges U.S. News & World Report College Ranking The University in Ruins M&A Nigerian Edtech Startup Klas Secures $130k Video Learning Startup Raises $29m t...

Send us Fan Mail Ope Bukola was a product manager at Amplify Education and a product lead for Google Classroom for four years before branching out as an entrepreneur in 2020. She founded a company to build African tech talent, was a founding member of Level, a multiracial network that invests in businesses led by Black women, and joined the Board of Zeta, a network of high-performing charter schoo...

Send us Fan Mail Sergio Monsalve is a Founding Partner of Roble Ventures, a venture capital investing firm based in Silicon Valley that invests in human enablement technologies: solutions that help human progress. Sergio is also visiting professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education and Business. In both roles, he is focused on the “Future of Work and Learning” and on developing...

Send us Fan Mail Topics This Week: NSVF and Others Receive Funding from MacKenzie Scott for General Operating Here’s Who MacKenzie Scott Donated To So Far In February MacKenzie Scott Makes Historic Gift to NewSchools Venture Fund Edtech Metrics and Skepticism Edtech Companies Must Place Learning Ahead of Revenue and Engagement Who is the Theranos of Education ? Edtech firm Zovio (ZVO) fined $22 mi...

Send us Fan Mail 1. International Women’s Day (“Break the Bias”) Top 200 Women who are leading Global EdTech Startups. – HolonIQ Supercharger Edtech Female Founders Erase All Kittens signs distribution deal with Tesco 2. Russia becomes a true pariah state for education Colleges cut financial ties to Russia European University Association Kicks Out Russian Universities Hundreds of Medical Students...

Send us Fan Mail  Josh Owens is the CEO and co-founder of Boost , a personal notification assistant for students on their smartphone.  Josh was formerly the CEO of Supplykick, a growth-stage online marketplace retailer, has been a gubernatorial candidate for the State of Indiana, and has taught economics at Butler University and Indiana University. Boost connects directly to a student's Canva...

Send us Fan Mail Eduflow is rapidly becoming one a best-in-class LMS, including a cutting edge peer grading system that both saves instructor time and provides learning opportunities for learners and graders alike. David Kofoed Wind, the CEO of Peergrade and Eduflow describes his unusual journey from university teaching to edtech in Copenhagen, Denmark, and how Eduflow is working to make online, a...

Send us Fan Mail Topics this week include: The Impact on Education of the War in Ukraine  7.5 million children & youth with education disrupted Students rally to support Ukraine EdTech Startups in Ukraine Top 10 Ukrainian EdTech Startups to Look Out for Amid War MIT Ends Program in Russia Ukraine invasion underscores value of higher ed Funding Rounds Disco, Toronto-Based CBC platform, gets $15...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest this week is Jomayra Herrera - Partner @ Reach Capital , talking about Web3. Higher Ed Beat A pathway out of intergenerational poverty - Paul Quinn College offers admission to students and family members U.S. House expands Pell Grants but excludes online ed Mobile Education State of the mobile education market 2021 Byju's Becoming an Edtech Flagship Byju’s acquires...

Send us Fan Mail Jomayra Herrera is a partner at Reach Capital, one of the leading edtech venture capital firms, where she supports entrepreneurs that develop technology solutions for challenges in education from early childhood through future of work.  In this conversation, we talk about education investing and life as an Edtech VC, as well as about Web3 and education and how it could increase eq...

Send us Fan Mail Topics This Week: Education Stocks Take a Hit 306 global education stocks lost $120B of value in 2021, down 40% Edtech Stocks hit a steep learning curve Potato Head Becomes a Digital Therapist PresenceLearning partnered with Hasbro to bring beloved characters & classic games to therapy platform Funding + M&A Round-up Munic-based Edurino raised €3.35M to advance digital lea...

Send us Fan Mail Joshua Wöhle is the CEO of UK-based Edtech company Mindstone ,  a platform that helps people learn faster, remember more and get things done.  Previously, Joshua was Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at SuperAwesome, the biggest kids technology company in the world, which was acquired by Epic Games in the summer of 2020. Joshua is an EdTech enthusiast, advisor and Investor. M...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest this week:  Alberto Arenaza , Edtech Insider Extraordinaire and Cofounder of  Transcend Network and author of the Transcend Newsletter Featured Resource Check out the amazing new Edtech Dash with over 25,000 Edtech companies    - Brighteye & Dealroom release open access EdTech dashboard Topics covered this week: Higher Ed & Government House passes College Transpa...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we sat down with Jonathan Finkelstein, CEO of Credly, which was acquired by Pearson this week for $200m , and with Rhys Spence, lead author of the recent Europe Edtech Funding Report 2022 . HEADLINES: 1. COVID beat   Interesting linkedin post by a teacher caught our eye. There was also a series of articles on Edsurge and elsewhere about life as a COVID principal, pandem...

Send us Fan Mail Eva Brown is the author of “The Next Right Step: From Teaching to Edtech” . Eva was a classroom teacher for many years before transitioning into Edtech with Scholastic, HMH and now at Formative. Eva runs a consultancy at Eva Brown Consulting to help transitioning teachers take the next right step in their careers. Recommended Resources for Transitioning Teachers Jeff Patterson , C...