TeachPitch

TeachPitch
Industry Education technology
Founded October 2014
Founder Aldo de Pape
Headquarters Shoreditch, London
Area served
 Worldwide
Website www.teachpitch.com

TeachPitch is an Edtech company based in London, United Kingdom, which provides a cloud-based platform for teachers and schools to discover and manage online educational resources.[1]

History

Aldo de Pape, a former teacher himself, founded TeachPitch in October 2014.[2] The company currently comprises 17 people. Since its founding, TeachPitch has been featured in Hot Topics' list of most influential EdTech Leaders in the World and was listed as one of the 20 fastest growing e-Learning companies in Europe by EdTech Magazine.[3][4] Furthermore, TeachPitch was selected in 2015 to participate in the Accelerator program of the World Innovation Summit for Education, Qatar.[5] In October 2016, TeachPitch was shortlisted on the 2016 Great British Technology Shortlist in the Education Technology category by the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.[6]

Functionality

TeachPitch offers its users a teacher-curated library system that allows users to save, rate, review and share digitally available educational resources while discovering personal learning ideas from other users. TeachPitch brings resources from a wide variety of educational sources together in the library. The platform enables the user to select material based on teaching subject, target audience, format and time available. In addition, teachers can follow colleagues and can develop a network of contacts who share similar educational content suggestions.[7]

Further reading

Green, Miranda (03-11-2015). "Technology and education: children are 'digitally adrift". Financial Times. New York, US. Retrieved 2016-09-21.

Turbot, Sebastien (29-02-2016). "Five Steps to Raise a Creative Teaching Force". Forbes USA. Jersey City, US. Retrieved 2016-11-22

Knowles, Kitty (09-05-2016). "13 digital leaders driving education forward". The Memo. London, UK. Retrieved 2016-21-09.

Sossi, Dino (01-01-2016). "TeachPitch". New Learning Times. New York, US. Retrieved 2016-09-21.

Schutte, Shané (28-10-2015). "TeachPitch to bring teachers around the world together so they can find and share best resources". Real Business UK. London, UK. Retrieved 2016-09-21.

Paddick, Rebecca (01-08-2016). "TeachPitch proves overseas demand for UK edtech offerings". Education Technology. Bristol, UK. Retrieved 2016-11-22.

References

  1. ↑ TeachPitch. "TeachPitch - Learn More. Teach Better.". teachpitch.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  2. ↑ "TeachPitch Helps Educators Around The World Share Learning Resources | TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  3. ↑ "The 100 most influential edtech leaders". hottopics.ht. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  4. ↑ "DigiSchool, Kahoot! and RefME Announced as Winners of 2015 EdTech 20 - MarketWatch". marketwatch.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  5. ↑ "2015-16 Program | www.wise-qatar.org". wise-qatar.org. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  6. ↑ "The Great British Technology Shortlist Revealed". greatbritishentrepreneurawards.com. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
  7. ↑ TeachPitch. "TeachPitch - Learn More. Teach Better.". teachpitch.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
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