Sights on EdTech

🎤 Special Episode Alert! 🎤 Luigi went behind the scenes at Bett Global 2025 to meet this year’s award winners! 🏆✨ In this special episode, Duncan Verry , Portfolio Director at Hyve Group , introduced us to the exhibition and the prestigious awards before diving into exclusive interviews with the winners. From groundbreaking EdTech innovations to emerging startups, we spoke with:🏅 Jon Neale fr...

🚀 Leading an Impactful EdTech Enterprise - UCL Course 🚀🗓️ 1st cohort: 3-5 March; 2nd cohort: 18-20 June Alison Clark-Wilson and Dr. Anissa Moeini told Luigi about their upcoming course for edtech leaders @ IOE - UCL's Faculty of Education and Society ! 🎯 Build impact strategies that align teams to create trustworthy edtech 🎯 Avoid costly missteps by designing with evidence from the start 🎯 Cu...

How can EdTech founders embed inclusive design from the very first prototype? In this episode of Sights on EdTech, Luigi sat down with Louisa Rosenheck —EdTech design expert, Harvard instructor, ex Kahoot! and former MIT researcher—to explore: 🛠️ The role of co-design and why engaging learners early in development is key. 🧠 Why inclusive design isn’t just about accessibility of the marginalised—i...

🔍 Evidence-Based Design in EdTech: Why It Matters 🔍 In this episode of Sights on EdTech, we explore the pivotal role of evidence-based design in shaping effective #EdTech solutions. WestEd’s experts, Tanner Higgin, Ph. D. and Jessica Triant, dive into the role of formative research in developing effective EdTech tools. 💡 Measuring success must extend beyond pre-post testing; building strong par...

Join us as Dan Fitzpatrick , educator, innovator, and author of The AI Classroom, explores the role of AI in education . In this episode of Sights on Edtech , we dive into how AI is already making its way into education and its long-term potential, as well as the challenges traditional schooling systems face in trying to keep up. 🚀 Working on an innovative EdTech project? We’d love to ⁠connect⁠ !

Alberto Arenaza , co-founder of Transcend Network , shares how they support early-stage EdTech founders. From finding product-market fit to choosing the appropriate funding vehicle, Transcend Network is enabling innovators to transform education and the future of work. 🚀 Working on an innovative EdTech project? We’d love to connect !

Fiona and Luigi discuss the importance of choosing EdTech tools that are aligned with pedagogical beliefs, and why considerations regarding pedagogical alignment are important for all stakeholders, including developers. 🚀 Working on an innovative EdTech project? We’d love to connect! 👉 https://lnkd.in/djrP4FW

In this episode, Luigi and Matteo discussed the challenges and potential solutions in corporate training, with a focus on the use of text-based microtrainings delivered with Zick Learn. They explored the platform's features including its analytics, AI-enabled tools and compatibility with other software, and discussed the principles it is built upon: microlearning and spaced learning. The conve...

In this episode, Michael presents EdTech Impact, an EdTech marketplace that focuses on running quality evaluations of products, helping both buyers find their best solution, and sellers to generate leads. Michael also showed a new tool called EdTech Impact Manager, designed to help school leaders manage and optimise their EdTech stack. Finally, Luigi and Michael discuss the push for evidence-based...

In this episode, we interviewed Libby Hills and John Soleanicov, co-leads of Learning Schools, one of the three areas of work of the Jacobs Foundation. The Jacobs Foundation is doing some very important work to bring about a paradigm shift in EdTech that will embed evidence into the norms of the field. Zanichelli Venture is the Italian leading textbook publisher Zanichelli Editore’s investment ini...

In this episode, we interviewed Natalia Kucirkova. Professor of Early Childhood Development at the University of Stavanger, Professor of Reading and Children’s Development at The Open University and Visiting Professor at UCL. She has conducted foundational and empirical research on EdTech for the past ten years. In addition, she has developed apps and worked directly with EdTech companies, NGOs an...

In this episode, we interviewed Vince Jeong, Co-Founder and CEO of Sparkwise, a corporate learning company scaling captivating and interactive online skills training. More from the Sights on EdTech interview series on: https://medium.com/sights-on-edtech Zanichelli Venture is the Italian leading textbook publisher Zanichelli Editore’s investment initiative, focusing on early-stage edtech startups....

In this episode, we interviewed Kristen Shroff, CEO of Prisma, a virtual school that accepts kids from grade 4 up to grade 12. More from the Sights on EdTech interview series on: https://medium.com/sights-on-edtech Zanichelli Venture is the Italian leading textbook publisher Zanichelli Editore’s investment initiative, focusing on early-stage edtech startups. https://www.zanichelliventure.it/ https...

In this episode, we interviewed Tom Symonds, CEO of Immerse, a VR EdTech company enabling companies to aggregate, distribute, and analyse any type of immersive learning content. Zanichelli Venture is the Italian leading textbook publisher Zanichelli Editore’s investment initiative, focusing on early-stage edtech startups. https://www.zanichelliventure.it https://www.linkedin.com/company/zanichelli...

In this episode, we interviewed Caro Jongert, program coordinator of EdTech Startup in Residence, an EdTech testbed running programs that connect Dutch higher education institutions with EdTech startups. Full list of EdTech SiR's 2023 challenges: https://startupinresidence.com/edtech Zanichelli Venture is the Italian leading textbook publisher Zanichelli Editore’s investment initiative, focusi...

In this episode, we interviewed Anna Iarotska, Co-Founder and CEO of Robo Wunderkind, an EdTech company that partners with schools to equip educators with what they need to teach STEAM effectively. Their STEAM Hub hosts open & go lessons, playful curricula, and professional development and their robotics kit teaches basic robot assembly to children 5 - 12 years old. Their coding app comes with...

In this interview with Joshua Wöhle, CEO of Mindstone, we spoke about how their APPs and browser extensions leverage the learning sciences to optimise people's informal, unstructured #learning which happens constantly while engaging with content on the web. Zanichelli Venture is the Italian leading textbook publisher Zanichelli Editore’s investment initiative, focusing on early-stage edtech st...

In this episode, we interviewed Garrett Smiley, Co-Founder and CEO of Sora Schools, a live, virtual project-based middle and high school with a non-traditional curriculum designed around students' interests and learning styles. More from the Sights on EdTech interview series on: https://medium.com/sights-on-edtech Hosted by: Luigi Morino.

In this episode, we interviewed Curtiss Barnes and Michael Feldstein, Co-Founders and respectively CEO and CIO of Argos Education, an end-to-end learning experience platform powered by a multisided marketplace. More from the Sights on EdTech interview series on: https://medium.com/sights-on-edtech Hosted by: Luigi Morino.

In this episode we asked  imagiLabs 's Co-Founder and CEO  Dora Palfi to show us how they are introducing more girls to coding and how they manage to compete with gaming apps for kids' attention. More from the Sights on EdTech interview series on: https://medium.com/sights-on-edtech Hosted by: Luigi Morino.

This is Part 2 of "Sights on EdTech - Introduction to EdTech MOOC by SuperCharger Ventures with Alessandro di Lullo" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRS_G... ). In this part, we discuss what is going on at SuperCharger Ventures' accelerator and incubator. More from the Sights on EdTech interview series on: https://medium.com/sights-on-edtech . Hosted by: Luigi Morino.

In this episode we interviewed Alessandro Di Lullo, co-founder of SuperCharger Ventures, a well-known EdTech accelerator and incubator. They have also recently launched their MOOC on Coursera, Introduction to EdTech, so make sure to check it out: https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-edtech More from the Sights on EdTech interview series on: https://medium.com/sights-on-edtech Hosted by:...

In this episode we interviewed Andrew Hutton, CEO of DayOne, an EdTech company rethinking how to provide first-time entrepreneurs with the training, support and connections they need to successfully launch and grow their businesses. DayOne is a Zanichelli Venture portfolio company, so we definitely believe in their mission to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs! More from the Sights on Ed...

In this episode, we interviewed Jin Yun Chow, Co-Founder and COO of Polygence, an EdTech platform facilitating project-based learning for high school kids by pairing them with expert research mentors to work on personalised research projects. More from the Sights on EdTech interview series on: https://medium.com/sights-on-edtech Hosted by: Luigi Morino.

In this episode we interviewed Robin de Lange, Founder & Director of the Virtual Reality Learning Lab. Robin is also a Lecturer at Leiden University, where he teaches the Honours Class “Learning though Virtual Reality”. He has extensive experience in promoting the use of VR in schools and organisations, so we asked him to share his experience on the challenges and opportunities of using VR in...