Company: PAPER Paper was founded in 2014 with the goal to democratize education by offering online tutoring services at the district level. The founder, Philip…
Category: Founders Parade
Bios & entrepreneur-evaluations of current real-world learning technologies ventures, rated and reviewed by ETEC522 professionals.
https://investors.shopify.com/home/default.aspx Shopify was founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke. Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake were part of the initial start up of Shopify, however Tobias…
Founder: Martin McKay, Co-founder and CEO Venture: TextHelp is a literacy and numeracy software development company, with Read & Write, eQuatio, BrowseAsloud, wriQ as the signature products. Accessibility…
Founder: John Baker, President and Chief Executive Officer Venture: D2L (Desire2Learn) Brightspace is a Learning Management System (LMS) platform used by K-12, higher education, government, and…
Carl Wieman – Creator, Senior Advisor PhET Interactive Simulations https://phet.colorado.edu/ PhET Interactive Simulations is a non-profit open educational resource project that creates and hosts guided…
Wordle is a word puzzle game where the user must determine a 5-letter word based on clues from previous guesses. They have 6 chances to…
Kahoot and Quizlet Live are both examples of tools that teachers use to spice up lessons through gamification. Most students love these as they can…
Peter Gault – Quill.org
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Quill is a not-for-profit that “has adapted research-based writing instruction into a free, open-source digital platform”(Quill, 2022). They do provide a paid version of their…
Osmo was founded in 2013 by Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler. Pramod Sharma is the founder, and Jerome Scholler is the co-founder. Osmo is a…
Please note: This is a repost from Kevin Spachuk on Feb 1, 2020 I would rate this 5/5! I use this learning technology with my…