Sights on EdTech

🎤 Special Episode Alert! 🎤Luigi went behind the scenes at Bett Global 2025 to meet this year’s award winners! 🏆✨ In this special episode, Duncan Verry, Portfolio Director at Hyve Group, introduced us to the exhibition and the prestigious awards before diving into exclusive interviews with the winners.From groundbreaking EdTech innovations to emerging startups, we spoke with:🏅 Jon Neale from Quizizz🏅 Ida Laszuk and Paulina Kowalik from MUSICON – educational devices🏅 Martin Saunders from EdShed🏅 Zoltan Visy from Redmenta🏅 Victoria Mallinson from Olex.AIAnd how could we miss our chance to take a peek at the GESAwards - Global EdTech Startup Awards 2025 winners🏅finding Mohammed Reda from STEMpedia!

Alison Clark-Wilson, co-creator of the Leading an Impactful EdTech Enterprise course at UCL, and Dr. Anissa Moeini share insights on shaping the future of educational technology. They discuss empowering leaders through collaborative learning and practical tools. Key topics include the importance of aligning teams with trustworthy EdTech strategies and cultivating evidence-based insights to avoid costly mistakes. The conversation highlights the essential role of human leadership over products in driving impactful change in the EdTech landscape.

Louisa Rosenheck, an EdTech design expert, Harvard instructor, and former Kahoot! director, shares insights on inclusive design in educational technology. She emphasizes the importance of engaging students in the development process to create tools that benefit all learners, especially marginalized groups. Louisa discusses the need for innovative assessment methods to measure real success beyond traditional metrics. She also highlights the role of multiplayer games in enhancing STEM learning and the collaboration required between developers and educators to foster truly inclusive and effective EdTech solutions.

Tanner Higgin, a senior ed tech researcher at WestEd, and Jessica Triant, a senior research associate, discuss the critical importance of evidence-based design in educational technology. They emphasize that meaningful collaboration between researchers and developers is key to creating impactful tools. The duo also tackles the challenges of conducting efficacy studies and the need for a holistic approach to learning that values student engagement. Additionally, they explore how external evaluations and test beds can enhance product development while navigating the complexities of the ed tech landscape.

Join us as Dan Fitzpatrick, educator, innovator, and author of The AI Classroom, explores the role of AI in education. In this episode of Sights on Edtech, we dive into how AI is already making its way into education and its long-term potential, as well as the challenges traditional schooling systems face in trying to keep up. 🚀 Working on an innovative EdTech project? We’d love to ⁠connect⁠!

Alberto Arenaza, co-founder of Transcend Network, shares how they support early-stage EdTech founders. From finding product-market fit to choosing the appropriate funding vehicle, Transcend Network is enabling innovators to transform education and the future of work. 🚀 Working on an innovative EdTech project? We’d love to connect!

Fiona and Luigi discuss the importance of choosing EdTech tools that are aligned with pedagogical beliefs, and why considerations regarding pedagogical alignment are important for all stakeholders, including developers. 🚀 Working on an innovative EdTech project? We’d love to connect! 👉 https://lnkd.in/djrP4FW

In this episode, Luigi and Matteo discussed the challenges and potential solutions in corporate training, with a focus on the use of text-based microtrainings delivered with Zick Learn. They explored the platform's features including its analytics, AI-enabled tools and compatibility with other software, and discussed the principles it is built upon: microlearning and spaced learning. The conversation also touched on Zick Learn's positioning in the market and the anticipation for upcoming features. Zanichelli Venture is the Italian leading textbook publisher Zanichelli Editore’s investment initiative, focusing on early-stage edtech startups.

In this episode, Michael presents EdTech Impact, an EdTech marketplace that focuses on running quality evaluations of products, helping both buyers find their best solution, and sellers to generate leads. Michael also showed a new tool called EdTech Impact Manager, designed to help school leaders manage and optimise their EdTech stack. Finally, Luigi and Michael discuss the push for evidence-based procurement in the EdTech market. Zanichelli Venture is the Italian leading textbook publisher Zanichelli Editore’s investment initiative, focusing on early-stage edtech startups.

In this episode, we interviewed Libby Hills and John Soleanicov, co-leads of Learning Schools, one of the three areas of work of the Jacobs Foundation. The Jacobs Foundation is doing some very important work to bring about a paradigm shift in EdTech that will embed evidence into the norms of the field. Zanichelli Venture is the Italian leading textbook publisher Zanichelli Editore’s investment initiative, focusing on early-stage edtech startups.