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We are loving the look and sound of Museum in a Box - an edtech company from London who are aiming to increase the accessibility of museums and their objects with an innovative interactive handling box. Intrigued? Museum in a Box  - is pretty much just that. It is a box of miniature objects found in museums from around the world that you can have sent to your school, office or to home. Insid...
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EdTech Startup Perlego has been branded the “Spotify for student textbooks”. With the aim of making educational content more scalable and affordable, we spoke to Founder Gauthier Van Malderen to find out more about their subscription service that has 'class' intentions...Tell us in 140 characters or less what Perlego aims to do. Perlego which has been branded ...
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Tuition marketplace, Tutora, raises £150,000 in just four days Towards the end of 2015 we featured an interview with Mark Hughes about his ambitious local tutor marketplace Tutora and since then his innovative platform has gone from strength to strength. In fact, the team has just made crowdfunding history, by becoming the first ever edtech Startup to reach their crowdfunding target on Cr...
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6 EdTech Startups to Learn From Children are interacting with technology more and more these days and, rather than complain about ‘in my day’, some people are coming to realise that technology could be an invaluable tool for education. Traditional education is coming under fire more often as schools become more target oriented, so employing fascinating and entertaining technological t...
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The very same day that I had arranged a chat with Santeri Koivisto the Co-owner and CEO of TeacherGaming LLC, the company behind MinecraftEdu, fellow Co-Founder Joel Levin had tweeted “For reference, $2.5 Billion is what it cost to send the Curiosity Rover to Mars.”  That tweet was in reference to the news that Minecraft had been reportedly acquired by Microsoft (heard of ‘...
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Let’s face it. Working as a team is generally a whole lot easier than going it alone. Whether it helps us all generate more ideas or simply spurs us on that bit more - collaboration is where it’s at! It’s a premise which is at the very core of our latest Startup of the Week. Knodium is a collaboration platform for students enabling them to connect, engage and of course collabor...
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5 New Start-Ups in the Online Education Sector With the growing popularity of e-learning platforms, it is no surprise that there has been a rapid surge in online education start-ups, also known as ‘EdTech’ – Educational Technology. We are now in a digital age, where anyone with online access can learn anything, anywhere. Over the last ten years the amount of venture capital fun...
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