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Catalyst | Pearson Labs. 7Mar Catalyst in Deutschland Pearson's Future Technologies team is heading to Germany at the end of the month to attend didacta, the world's largest education trade fair. They'll be talking about Catalyst, our global edtech incubator programme, which is … Edtech Handbook | Launch an education startup. Tips For Pitching Your Edtech Startup. “There have been a lot of ideas like this--a whole lot--so if you could give some idea of your differentiators?” These are not welcome words to most education technology entrepreneurs who fervently believe their idea, their approach, their product is game-changing for administrators, teachers or students. But in the world of edtech startup competitions, this is tough love--and can be comparative softball to the hardballs hurled by questioning customers and investors. Over the last few years, the edtech space has become lousy with startup pitch fests.
You can’t attend an education conference without wandering into one. An entirely new conference in the hallowed SXSW family--SXSW V2V--just debuted in Las Vegas this August, devoted completely to entrepreneurship and startups. SXSW V2V takes its pitch fest very seriously. After those two days, I came away with seven tips for wannabe pitch fest winners courtesy of the lively interaction between the founders and the three coaches. 1. 2. 3. 4. The Ed Tech Startup Space | EdStartup 101. If you find other info online that we should add to this topic, please post it in the forum.This topic’s tag: space Don’t Get Lost The ed tech startup space is full of incredible companies doing awesome things.
There are so many it can be difficult to find your way around in the space. Before we jump into working on your idea for your startup, let’s pause for a moment and get inspired by some companies that are making an exciting impact on various aspects of education. Some Startups We Love There are literally thousands of ed tech startups out there. ClassDojo – website and video Clever – website CodeAcademy – website Coursera – website and video Degreed – website Dreambox – website Goalbook – website and video Instructure – website and video Knewton – website and video Some Ways to Keep Up It’s all well and good to read through a list of startups that we’ve put together for you, but how do you get plugged in to what’s happening and learn enough to build your own list?
Trends to Watch Next Steps. How to Start a Startup. March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard Computer Society.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed. And that's kind of exciting, when you think about it, because all three are doable.
Hard, but doable. If there is one message I'd like to get across about startups, that's it. The Idea In particular, you don't need a brilliant idea to start a startup around. Google's plan, for example, was simply to create a search site that didn't suck. There are plenty of other areas that are just as backward as search was before Google. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search did before Google. An idea for a startup, however, is only a beginning. What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them. People Raising Money. Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) 2014 Program Information and Deadlines.
Need To Grow Your EdTech Startup? Edtech Incubators Are Popping Up Everywhere. There is no question that education is an unusual industry: Nonprofit ventures compete with for-profits. (In fact, it’s frequently hard to tell them apart.) The “users” of products aren’t typically the folks who are the “buyers” of products. The marketplace is a jigsaw puzzle of districts, charters, and others, crisscrossed with bureaucracy and conflicting demands. And the entrepreneurs are, for the most part, young and untested in the ways of building businesses. For those kinds of reasons, it made perfect sense when three experienced Internet businessmen started an education technology incubator, Imagine K12, in early 2011. And since incubators are kind of geographic hot spots, it made sense that entrepreneurs on the East Coast should have one, too. So far in 2013, the U.S. alone has seen five new edtech incubators and accelerators.
February’s Fab Five Boston-based nonprofit LearnLaunch got the ball rolling on February 1 when it announced the LearnLaunchX accelerator program. Too many? Www.michiganadvantage.org/cm/Files/Brochures/Non-MEDC_Produced/Guide-to-Starting-and-Operating-a-Small-Business(1).pdf. Business - Michigan Business One Stop. Free group forums, calendars, file sharing, admin tools & more | BigTent. Digication e-Portfolios: Home.
Need a Job? Invent It. Innovate Michigan! Summit 2013 - MSU EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI) - Michigan State University. Facebook, HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and the Family Online Safety Institute Launch Project:Connect. MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) today announced a series of activities to advance healthy online experiences so young people can more easily make smart and responsible choices on the Internet.
Under the banner Project:Connect, the four partners will launch an all-day “hackathon” in New York City on Thursday, May 9. The event will bring together programmers, designers, and educators to develop prototypes for social tools, including apps, badges, and curriculum in pursuit of a better Web. “Supporting healthy online communities is a top priority for MacArthur,” said Connie Yowell, Director of Education at the MacArthur Foundation. “Research shows us that the Internet has become a place where young people are learning and growing. Surfacing Innovative Ideas – The Project:Connect Hackathon Continuing Momentum For Youth During The Summer A Platform for Good About Facebook About HASTAC. INNOVATION INCUBATOR - SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit 2013. SIIA’s Innovation Incubator program identifies and supports entrepreneurs in their development and distribution of innovative learning technologies.
The program began in 2006 and has provided mentoring for dozens of successful products and companies in their efforts to improve education through the use of software, digital content and related technologies. simCEO, Jetlag Learning - WINNER | Video simCEO create online learning simulations where students compete and interact with one another - instead of a program - to make the environment and the learning more dynamic. Students apply skills in a real-world environments without right/wrong answers. Our first solution, simCEO targets entrepreneurship and financial literacy where students create their own company then buy/sell shares in each other's companies. Teachers keep the simulation dynamic through news articles. Citelighter, Citelighter Inc - RUNNER UP | See.Touch.Learn., Brain Parade, LLC - WINNER | scrible, scrible - RUNNER UP | The Coleman Foundation, Inc. : What We Fund : Entrepreneurship Education : Entrepreneurship Education Partners.
Current Projects - MSU EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI) - Michigan State University. We are pleased to announce that we have officially selected our Co-Learning Plans for the 2013-14 project year. The Co-Learning Plans range from a variety of topics such as Money Smart for Small Business, Pop-Up Businesses and Engaging the Community. The seven Co-Learning Plans are as follows: Expanding Economic Literacy by using the Money Smart for Small Business Curriculum Amanda Blondeau, Northern Initiatives Co-Learning Plan This Co-Learning Plan proposes to develop training videos based on the 10 training areas of the FDIC Money Smart for Small Business program. There will be assessments built in and pre/post-tests to see if learning took place. Improving TIF Transparency and Accountability: A Consolidated TIF Database for Michigan Dr.
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This section provides an instructional strategy design template that can be applied for different types of learning. It is based on the learner taking the primary responsibility for being prepared to learn and the instructional designer developing design strategies that engage the learner. Adapted from Smith, P.L., & Ragan, T.J. (2005). Each phase has specific components. In the next section that describes the template in more detail, the examples provided suggest that the designer can either link the examples to a specific component or apply the activity to more than one component. Instructional Design Templates. Note: On some browsers you need to right-click the file to download the RTF (Rich Text Format) and Excel files to your hard drive. Once you have downloaded the template you can then view and edit them with just about any word processor or text editor, however, MS Office normally works best for keeping the original formatting.
Analysis Templates (rtf) A number of templates for assessing training needs, including: System Overview Instrument Business Outcome Job List Instrument Job Description Instrument Task Inventory Instrument Task Survey Instrument Employee Survey Supervisor & Manager Training Survey Task Selection Instrument People, Data, Things Instrument Task Performance Measure Instrument Training Analysis Overview Report Course Evaluation (Word document) A guide for evaluation learning platforms. Training Estimator Spreadsheet (MS Excel) A spreadsheet for making rough estimates of training development time and costs.
Lesson Plan Template (rtf) Presentation Template (rtf) Instructional System Design Concept Map. Click map area for more information on ISD, such as Learning Environment, Design, or Knowledge. ID and ISD Models The main goal of an ID (Instructional Design) model or process is to construct a learning environment in order to provide the learners with the conditions that support the desired learning processes. ID models differ from an ISD (Instructional System Design) model in that ISD models are more broad in nature. On the other hand, ID models are less broad in scope and normally focus on the first two phases of the ISD model - analysis and design. They focus on the analysis of a to-be-trained skill or knowledge-acquisition and then convert the analysis into a training strategy (design of the learning environment).
Analysis Design Development or Production Implementation or Delivery Evaluations. Formative and Summative Evaluations. Learning Concept Map. Virtual keyboard in Arabic ™ (لوحة المفاتيح العربية) Arabic business, finance, marketing dictionary. Www.unccd.int/en/programmes/Reporting-review-and-assessment/Documents/Glossary_ARABIC_final rev.pdf. Arabic education vocabulary (vocabulary of Education) Schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/390C9547-8002-48C8-AD55-CA497E3728CE/45863/ArabicGlossary. TermsCafe.com Search. Innoventures. PFiles/Draft_Agenda__23_APRIL.pdf. _src/IT1_InnovationEntrepreneurship_EN.pdf. Google selects 200 Egyptian startups as finalists in its nationwide competition. Google MENA has announced the 200 finalists for the Start with Google (or Ebda2) initiative that was launched in Egypt in September. Google will be giving up to $200,000 to one Egyptian startup as part of the company’s efforts to boost the entrepreneurial scene in the country.
The 200 finalists were chosen by a panel of judges from over 4,000 applications. The judges, experts in varied fields including finance, private equity, management, marketing, medicine, IT, retail and more, hail from a variety of companies and organizations including the Amerian University in Cairo, Ericsson, Vodafone, Schneider, USAID, ICANN and Oracle. Selecting the finalists, each judge reviewed over 100 applications, rating them based on a predetermined set of criteria including innovation, social impact, market size, business model, team and presentation. After the preliminary assessment, applications went through a second round of judging, and the final selections were made. An Overview on Entrepreneurship efforts in Egypt and the Arab World: Rania Al-Maghraby: Amazon.com.
Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East: Christopher M. Schroeder: 9780230342224: Amazon.com. Entrepreneurship Training. Entrepreneurship can play a critical role in creating economic opportunity and changing lives. AMIDEAST is committed to working with local, regional, and international partners to advance entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa through programs and initiatives that raise awareness and provide training opportunities for men and women alike. Cisco Entrepreneur Institutes Under a new partnership with the nonprofit arm of Cisco Systems, AMIDEAST centers in five countries ― Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Tunisia, and the West Bank/Gaza ― offer the Cisco Entrepreneurship Institute’s cutting edge entrepreneurship training curriculum to students and aspiring entrepreneurs. [ + ] Arab Women's Entrepreneurship Project (AWEP) In partnership with Citi Foundation, AMIDEAST is providing women entrepreneurs from underserved backgrounds with training that will help them start a new business or expand an existing one [ + ].
HSBC Finance and Entrepreneurship Awareness Program. MIT :: Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition. Home. Syllabus | Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Sloan School of Management. 407 Syllabus - F10 v1.pdf. Es615/pdf/ES615_syllabus.pdf. Www.snl.depaul.edu/WebMedia/People/FA_221.pdf. Free Business Courses - Free Entrepreneurship Courses Online. Entrepreneurship Courses. The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011. Stanford's new entrepreneurship class is not for the faint of heart. Launchpad is designed around a series of hurdles: the elevator pitch, the functional prototype, week after week of sales results. After each hurdle, students are force-ranked, so someone always lands on the bottom.
Midway through the semester, the class stages a trade show at which venture capitalists stroll around writing fictitious checks. Some students make out like bandits, while others are publicly stiffed. For the lesson on presentation skills, a television news crew is invited to record three-minute segments about the aspiring entrepreneurs' companies. Students feverishly practice and polish. Then the reporter shows up. Oh, and all the companies are real, because students incorporate within the first two weeks. "It's all about building up your tolerance for risk," says Perry Klebahn, an associate consulting professor who, together with professor Michael Dearing, designed and teaches Launchpad.