#6 with Emerge Education startups, Edspace, EasyPeasy and Open Simulation
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What’s featured in this episode?
- How much investment does Emerge Education have for your teacherpreneur idea?
- New investment in Emerge Education from Oxford University Press and China’s Qtone EdTech company
- The EdTech start up opportunity in Asia
- Meet the teams behind Edspace and Emerge Education
- Find out about EdTech start-ups: medical training platform Open Simulation and parental engagement company, Easy Peasy
- Understand how Ark and Oasis academy chains are working with EdTech start ups to inform and access service innovation and how Hackney Community College is beta testing products
- Balancing pedagogical integrity with commercial reality and vice versa
- Find out what conditions are important for EdTech business success globally
- Find out the main findings of an early years experiment by renowned psychologist Walter Mischel
- How can an app help aid higher grades at school, bigger salaries at work and longer and more sustained relationships at home, by getting ‘kids ready to learn for school’?
- Start up efficacy trials with Oxford University
- The growing Ofsted priority of parental engagement
- How EdTech is helping with the problem of scaling surgical training via augmented reality
- Classlist crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube
- 40% discount offer for listeners to attend EdtechEurope
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Quotations:
- ‘There’s something very magical happening at the beginning which sets the trajectory for our futures.’ – @EasyPeasyApp
- ‘Half (of school ready children) are not ready to learn because they lack these basic skills; concentration, self-control, getting on well with peers, resilience.’ – via @EasyPeasyApp
- ‘Could EasyPeasy support social mobility?’ That’s our mission.’ -via @EasyPeasyApp
- ‘It’s really becoming the hub for EdTech start ups in the UK.’ – via @EdspaceHoxton
- ‘The connection with the college is great. The principal is very entrepreneurial. If we are co-located we have more of an opportunity to build and grow things together.’ – via @EdspaceHoxton
- ‘We work with a network of school chains; Ark and Oasis academies, for example. They will trial the products, give feedback, potentially become first customers’ – @EmergeLabs
- ‘There are 5 million people in the world today who won’t have access to safe and affordable surgery.’ – via @OpenSimulation
- ‘We need to drastically increase surgical training and the surgical workforce.’ – via @OpenSimulation
- ‘We started with a pizza box; from a pizza box we moved to a box file to the current wooden box. The idea that we want to share with the world is you don’t need high end complex things…you just need your mobile phone, a cardboard box and you could learn how to perform a surgery.’
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