Edtech Insiders
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 388
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Week in Edtech 10/30/22 with Guest Joe Connor of Odyssey
In this episode, we speak with Joe Connor of Odyssey, which raised a $4.75M dollar seed round this week to help districts and families use flexible education funding sources, like Educa…
This Week in Edtech, 10/24 with Guest Claire Chen of Brighteye Ventures
In this episode, we speak to Claire Chen of Stanford GSB and Brighteye Ventures, who just put out the brand new report, Understanding the Edtech Content Landscape.
We also discuss:
1) Vid…
Building the Learning Metaverse with Monica Arés from Meta
Monica Arés is the Head of Immersive Learning at Meta, where she is focused on building an ecosystem that will allow anyone, anywhere to learn and grow in the metaverse. As a Harvard Gr…
Week in Edtech 10/17/22 with Guest Julia Stiglitz of CoRise
Guest Julia Stiglitz, CEO of CoRise and former GSV partner
- The Massive Lego/Brainpop acquisition
- Questioning the ROI for Higher Ed
The AI-Enhanced School of 2040 with Edtech authors Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy
In this episode, we speak to Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy, co-authors of Running with Robots: The American High School’s Third Century from MIT Press, available at Amazon, Bookshop or where…
This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 10/12
In this episode, guest host Matt Tower of Edtech Thoughts and Alex discuss:
1. The Possible "Second Boom" of the Edtech Investing Market as per Brighteye
Postcards from StartEd's NY Edtech Week
In this episode, we talk to some of the standout stars of the StartEd New York Edtech Week conference.
- Sari, Kide Science (story-based early years learning with platform for educators fr…
Postcard from Stanford: TeachFX CEO Jamie Poskin
In this short episode, we talk to Jamie Poskin, CEO and founder of TeachFX, about TeachFX's new $10mm funding round and how the company is finding a completely new source of classroom d…
Leading the Creative Computing Revolution with Shawna Young and Mitchel Resnick of the Scratch Foundation
In this episode, we speak to Shawna Young and Mitchel Resnick of the Scratch Foundation, which runs the largest creative computing community in the world around the Scratch programming …
Mapping the Mega-Trends in Edtech with Acky Kamdar of Magic Edtech
Acky Kamdar is the CEO of Magic EdTech and Magic Finserv. He is a technology entrepreneur and an investor in the fields of digital technologies, blockchain, machine learning, AI and NLP…
Measuring Educator Confidence with Francie Alexander of HMH
Francie Alexander is Chief Research Officer at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and an industry leader in the fields of Early Childhood Education, Literacy, and Intensive Intervention fo…
Making Enrollment Equitable with Greg Bybee of Avela Learning
Greg Bybee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Avela Education and the Co-Founder of PoliScribe.
Greg was an early employee at NovoEd where he ultimately ran every business function from marke…
This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 9/16/22
Launching Products to 100mm+ Users with Shravan Goli of Coursera
Shravan Goli has been the Chief Product Officer and Head of Consumer Revenue at Coursera since 2018. Shravan came to Coursera with over 20 years of experience of building products and l…
This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 9/9/22
Guest: Anjuli Gupta, Head of Academic Partnerships @ Outlier.org
Scaling Student Success with Lisa Jiang and Joe Burgess of Ribbon Education
Lisa Jiang has a long career at the heights of edtech; she was most recently the head of Remote Learning at Facebook, after 4 years as a senior director of product at New York’s Flatiro…
This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 9/1/22
Guest: Ish Baid, Founder & CEO @ Virtually
- Check out Ish’s podcast: Reshaping Education
Topics This Week:
- Duolingo Math
Universally Designing for Learning with Equity with Nicole Tucker-Smith of Lessoncast
T. Nicole Tucker-Smith, founder and CEO of Lessoncast, helps schools implement professional learning initiatives focused on inclusive leadership and teaching practices, culturally respo…
This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 8/26/22
Topics This Week:
- Student Loan Forgiveness
- Valuations
- Accelerator News
Research-Based Edtech for 3mm Learners with Sunil Gunderia of Age of Learning
Sunil Gunderia is the Chief Innovation Officer at Age of Learning, a leading education technology innovator with a mission to help children everywhere build a strong foundation for acad…