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 headquartered 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 founded TeachPitch in July 2014, the online platform itself was officially launched three months later in October 2014.[2] TeachPitch was founded as a solution to the problem of the growing abundance of online learning resources combined with the time and budget constraints that teachers face.[3] The inspiration for TeachPitch came from De Pape’s own experience of teaching Economics to high school students with special needs.[4] By building a global community of Teachers, TeachPitch wants to help bringing teachers around the world closer together so they can find and share the best resources on the web.[5]

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 Europe's 20 fastest growing e-Learning companies by EdTech Europe.[6][7] Furthermore, TeachPitch was selected in 2015 to participate in the Accelerator program of the World Innovation Summit for Education, Qatar.[8] In October 2016, TeachPitch was shortlisted on the 2016 Great British Technology Shortlist in the Education Technology category by the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.[9] In addition, TeachPitch gained the support of TusStar Incubator, affiliated with Tsinghua University, to grow its operations in China.[10] As of August 2016, TeachPitch operates from offices based in London (United Kingdom), Tirana (Albania), and Beijing (China). The company currently comprises 17 people.[11]

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.[12] 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.[13]

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.

Innovate My School (19-10-2016). "TeachPitch for Schools launched in the United Kingdom". Innovate My School. London, UK. Retrieved 2017-01-30.

TeachPitch (23-01-2017). "TeachPitch partners with AIDI International School". TeachPitch. London, UK. Retrieved 2017-01-30.

References

  1. ↑ "TeachPitch - Learn More. Teach Better.". teachpitch.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  2. ↑ "TeachPitch Interview". edspace.io. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  3. ↑ "Q&A With Aldo de Pape, Founder of TeachPitch". edtechtimes.com. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  4. ↑ "Aldo de Pape, CEO TeachPitch". hottopics.ht. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  5. ↑ "TeachPitch Helps Educators Around The World Share Learning Resources". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  6. ↑ "The 100 most influential edtech leaders". hottopics.ht. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  7. ↑ "DigiSchool, Kahoot! and RefME Announced as Winners of 2015 EdTech 20". marketwatch.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  8. ↑ "2015-16 WISE Accelerator Program". wise-qatar.org. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  9. ↑ "The Great British Entrepreneur Awards Shortlist revealed". freshbusinessthinking.com. Retrieved 2017-04-24.
  10. ↑ "TusStar Beijing". mp.weixin.qq.com. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  11. ↑ "TeachPitch - Learn More. Teach Better.". teachpitch.com. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  12. ↑ "Teaching Personnel - Our partners". teachingpersonnel.com. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  13. ↑ "TeachPitch - Learn More. Teach Better.". teachpitch.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
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