Who owns innovation? And why is the word publisher naughty?

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What's in this episode?

• Introduction and recording with the Japan Prize 1-9.00. Enter The Japan Prize Edu Resources - it's free and you might get flown to Tokyo! (more details below)

• Interview with Steve Connolly, Group Digital Director, Hodder 09.00-24.00

• Message from Class Central 24 - 25.30 

• Interview with Filippo Aroffo, Programme and Portfolio Manager SEM presso, McGraw-Hill Education 25.30 - 32.00

• Interview with Andrea Carr, Founder, Rising Stars 
  32.00 - 50.00

 

• Message from Glisser Edu 50:00 - 51.00 

• Outro - join us at ASU GSV! 

Sample quotations:

 

'We are traditional publishers in that we publish traditional books, but…we’ve been innovating for ten 15 years. We’ve invested significant amounts of money, our money, not investor money.’ 

'I would like to explore whether edtech in and of itself needs to be innovative in terms of what it does and in terms of the needs its serving, for its own sake.'

'It’s not about textbooks anymore its about helping students to reach their potential'

Experience would say that it’s still worth putting things in the post to teachers.

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References:  

• Enter The Japan Prize: The Japan Prize Edu Resources
• The Edtech Podcast Spring Playlist! 
• Steve Connolly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connollysteve/ 
• GCSE Pod: https://twitter.com/GCSEPod 
• Hodder Edu: https://twitter.com/HodderSchools 
• Hachette: https://twitter.com/hachetteuk 
• Rising Stars: https://twitter.com/risingstarsedu 
• Don't Make Me Think: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/0321344758 
• Steve Krug: https://twitter.com/skrug 
• Message from Class Central
• Filippo Aroffo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filippo-aroffo-7a97625/ 
• McGrawHill: https://twitter.com/mhhighered 
• Liverpool University: https://twitter.com/LivUni 
• Coventry University: https://twitter.com/covcampus 
• Andrea Carr: https://twitter.com/andreacarr1
• Bett Awards: https://twitter.com/BettAwards
• Octopus Publishing: https://twitter.com/Octopus_Books
• Havering: https://twitter.com/LBofHavering 
• CAS: https://twitter.com/CompAtSch
• Geography Association: https://twitter.com/The_GA 
• London Grid for Learning: https://twitter.com/LGfL
• BESA Launchpad: https://twitter.com/besatweet 
• Message from Glisser Edu 

 

Thank you to this week's sponsors!

Enter The Japan Prize 2017!...

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Next up, a word from ClassCentral which if you’re into geeking out over online learning and MOOC reports like I am you’ll probably already know about! 

It's been more than half a decade since free online courses from Stanford kicked off the modern-MOOC or massive online open courses movement. Since then more than 700 universities around the world have launched MOOCS, used by over 60 million people. Gaining insight into this fast paced world is worth spending time on (especially for those implicated by such changes). That’s where Class Central comes in.    Class Central launched at the end of 2011, and has kept track of the MOOC space right from the beginning. Not only does it list 7000+ courses, making it the #1 search engine for online courses, but the excellent MOOC report blog has deep analysis on what’s up, down, new or just slightly leftfield. With over 500+ articles written, Class Central has the most comprehensive coverage of the MOOC Industry.   I came across Class Central when I was preparing for a Department for International Trade webinar I was speaking on and found it invaluable. Since then, I met founder Dhawal Shah out at SXSWedu and he was excited to share the resource with all of you. So definitely go and check it out at www.class-central.com/report/ and let me know what you think! 

This is an easy one for me as I regularly use Glisser at events because I frankly find it a bit WEIRD when there are people staring at you but you ignore them! Glisser is an audience engagement platform, and they also have an education offer for socialising lectures where they take regular PowerPoint or Keynote presentations and push each slide out live to student’s mobile devices as they are presented. Professors, administrators and students get valuable data on where information is really engaging, or needs reworking and staff and students can interact through the deck. You can check them out at https://www.glisser.com/student-engagement/ 

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