Innovating EdTech: Recent Episodes
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The Innovating EdTech Podcast is an exploration of education and ways that innovation is happening. In Season 1; each Thursday we hear from experts in the education field, listen to their stories, and take a look at topics on what is happening in EdTech and e-Learning. We turn the page on latest trends, explore ideas and chat about what the future holds for the industry. Join us!Read the transcriptions to each of the episodes here, and get notified of future releases: https://start.user.com/edtech/podcast
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start.user.com/blog-posts/working-to-close-the-gender-gap-with-nadia-garfunkel
In Season 1, Episode 15, we hear from Nadia Garfunkel share about her life and working in Sweden with imagi, who is offering a fresh take on EdTech, gaming and is also helping to close the gender gap in tech and make coding easy and relevant.
About Nadia Garfunkel: Currently the Global Head of Partnerships at imagi, she is passionate about fostering equity in education, and is helping build a zero-to-hero coding platform to empower both students and teachers with tools that are designed with a gender lens, bringing creative and engaging opportunities for all to learn Python.
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start.user.com/blog-posts/marketing-the-customer-experience-journey-with-mieke-ridderhof
In Season 1, Episode 14, we hear from Mieke Ridderhof share about marketing; and great ideas she's used in her career and at myskillcamp - how connecting with your current customers is so important, plus the value of touchpoints and interactions throughout the customer journey.
About Mieke Ridderhof: Currently the CMO at myskillcamp, she's been involved EdTech over the last 10+ years, working to enable both customers and business partners to make use of tech solutions in the most effective way possible, and build long lasting business relationships to benefit the company and partners that she works with.
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start.user.com/blog-posts/getting-involved-creating-relationships-in-education-with-doug-konopelko
In Season 1, Episode 13, we hear from Doug Konopelko share about Esports and EdTech and how to be engaged about how the small things are influencing the industry, how even being involved in the details, can help shape its direction.
About Doug Konopelko: Doug is a passionate educator, designer, writer, speaker, and leader. He focuses on improving the education experience for teachers and students by acting as a connecting point between people, ideas, and solutions. On his education journey, he has served in both urban and suburban school districts as a teacher, high school assistant principal, school district administrator, and state education organization leader.
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start.user.com/blog-posts/growth-frameworks-with-adam-wesolowski
In Season 1, Episode 12, we hear from Adam Wesolowski share about growth, from capitalizing on and diversifying acquisition channels to building to scaling frameworks plus diving into visualizing the important touchpoints in the customer journey.
About Adam Wesolowski: Chief Growth Officer at Edvoy, consultant for Ladder.io and many other companies, an investor and a proud father. Adam has worked in education and tech for more than 13 years, with stints as Google for Startups EU, Airalo, GrowthMentor, Pizza Portal and even back at Google plus was working in some of the first Polish tech companies like Nasza-Klasa.
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start.user.com/blog-posts/the-edtech-landscape-with-carla-napoleao
In Season 1, Episode 11, we hear from Carla Napoleão share about interesting data and trends happening both on a niche level in the EdTech landscape plus the broader picture as well, all from transparent and data backed sources.
About Carla Napoleão: EdTech Specialist and responsible for the EdTech area on Dealroom.co, she's experienced in fast moving environments and brings a lot of creativity, communication and deeper insights into any project she's involved with.
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start.user.com/blog-posts/intrepreneurship-trying-new-things-for-innovation-with-wixs-yossi-hayut
In Season 1, Episode 10 we hear from Yossi Hayut share about how being able to be in intrepreneurship at Wix, is something to kickstart innovation and how he’s been able to learn from failures to drive creativity, plus we dive into the education and online learning platform from Wix.
About Yossi Hayut: The Head of Education and Learn at Wix.com that which provides an online academy where professionals can learn most in-demand digital skills. At Code.org he helped to partner up with Wix.com to broaden participation in computer science and to increase diversity in tech.
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https://start.user.com/blog-posts/the-customer-journey-segmenting-your-education-users-with-shivram-vedula
In Season 1, Episode 9 we hear from Shivram Vedula, who shares about education and the customer journey, plus talking how important segmenting is in the process of getting the best bang for your buck and his marketing experience at Manipal Global Education Services.
About Shivram Vedula: The Senior Talent Marketing Specialist at Adobe. He was previously the Senior Marketing Manager at Manipal Global Education Services and has worked in marketing in many different roles and delivering consistent value from B2B, B2C, D2C, and more.
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https://start.user.com/blog-posts/leading-a-team-to-success-creating-chances-for-conversations-with-irmak-ozgenoglu
In Season 1, Episode 8 we hear from Irmak Ozgenoglu, who shares ideas about the practical aspect of leading a team and finding success in growth and creating spaces and places for new conversations.
About Irmak Ozgenoglu: The Marketing Manager at FeedbackFruits, with more than 5 years of full-time experience in marketing. She is a specialist in CRM, Advertising, App Marketing, Lead Generation, SEO, Marketing Operations, Data, and tons more. She’s grown from being a specialist to a leader in the field, helping her team excel, by providing leadership and adapting to new growth techniques.
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https://start.user.com/blog-posts/leveling-up-leadership-developing-engaging-content-with-victoria-thompson
In Season 1, Episode 7 we hear from Microsoft's Victoria Thompson, who shares about leveling up your leadership potential, plus we talk about producing quality and engaging content.
About Victoria Thompson: Victoria Thompson is a speaker, educator, coach, and has been in education for more than 10 years, from a teacher to a coach, and consultant, to now an Education Industry Executive for K-12 at Microsoft. She is a well versed keynote speaker at various conferences and events in Education and Education Technology.
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https://start.user.com/blog-posts/empowering-the-next-generation-through-gaming-in-education-with-becky-keene
In Season 1, Episode 6 we hear from Becky Keene, who shares about empowering students in gaming to learn and construct their own understanding of the world with game based learning and communication..
About Becky Keene: Director of Operations at insight2execution, and a founding board member at Phygital Labs EdTech; she has been a top education consultant with more than 20 years of experience in education, working in the primary/secondary school education industry, as a classroom teacher, facilitator, and advocate. Skilled in K-12 education, game based learning and educational technology. Most notably she co-authored “Sail the 7 Cs with Microsoft Education.''
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https://start.user.com/blog-posts/exploring-the-intersection-of-ai-in-education-with-aleksandra-przegalinska
In Season 1, Episode 5 we hear from professor Aleksandra Przegalinska, who shares ideas about the intersection of artificial intelligence and education, and great concepts of assistive technology.
About Aleksandra Przegalinska: The Vice Rector at Koźmiński University, a Senior Research Associate at Harvard and the Ambassador of Swiss Cognitive - World leading AI network. She was previously a researcher at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT. She dedicated her professional career in AI as a futurist, and is a Digital EU Ambassador. She has been working in the AI field for more than 10 years, and is a frequent invited expert on Polish and international media.
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https://start.user.com/blog-posts/building-relationships-marketing-tech-to-grow-your-edtech-with-greg-le-sueur
In Season 1, Episode 4 we hear from Greg Le Sueur, who shares about relationship building at an unsustainable local level, how important your EdTech data is, plus aligning your team around a north star.
About Greg le Sueur: The Head of Product at TeachStarter - an online library of resources for teachers to utilize in the classroom. Started off as a UX/UI Designer to eventually land as a Head of Product in Jumbo Interactive before TeachStarter. Seasoned 15 years already in Product Strategy and Design he is leading TeachStarter with passion and great results.
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https://start.user.com/blog-posts/remote-working-virtual-internships-with-monica-dugo
In Season 1, Episode 3 we hear from Monica Dugo, who talks about some small, large impact things in life, and how partnerships are opening doors in the internship world.
About Monica Dugo: The Partnership Manager at Virtual Internships, a company that helps students to get experience through internships virtually. She has been in the educational industry for over 10 years where she started off as a teacher, but now is connecting students with companies worldwide. She is also an EdTech mentor for SuperCharger Ventures - an incubator for EdTech startups where she helps startups in specific demographics with marketing. She is an American currently residing in France with a passport filled with stamps from all over the world.
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https://start.user.com/blog-posts/sparking-imagination-the-relationship-between-play-and-learning-with-legos-bo-stjerne-thomsen
In Season 1, Episode 2 we hear from Bo Stjerne Thomsen, who talks about childhood education, and learning through play.
About Bo Stjerne Thomsen: He is the Vice President of the LEGO Foundation which helps children, also neurodivergent ones to learn, socialise and and build communities through meaningful lego and brick building activities. He has a PhD in Performative Environments - worked on pervasive computing, advanced sensor technologies and mobile networks integrated with architecture and urban environments for the benefit of creating more liveable socially interactive environments at the MIT Media Lab. He is also an experienced robot designer and tech savvy.
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https://start.user.com/blog-posts/navigating-trends-and-demands-in-edtech-with-alison-clark-wilson
In Season 1, Episode 1 we hear from Alison Clark-Wilson, who talks about EdTech, some ways to engage your audience and "finding your tribe".
About Alison Clark - Wilson: She is a professor at the UCL Institute of Education, doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused on Mathematics Education. She is also an education Lead at Goldstar Education and speaker at Expert Impact Speakers with more than 20 years within the educational industry. Initially an engineer, she became a math teacher interested in technology in the late eighties. Over the years she got more drawn to technology within the educational sector and started supporting EdTech companies and entrepreneurs that address pain points in Education and challenges specific to EdTech, in consideration of the voice of teachers and learners in helping to re-design EdTech and help navigate Edtech trends and demands. She has been a member of the Specialist Network at EdTech Hub for over two years now.