EDITORIAL OVERVIEW: APPLY, APPLY, APPLY!

If you’d like to be part of the largest-ever edition of Reimagine Education – a truly sterling global effort to improve the way we conduct teaching and learning – you have one more weekend to do so. The call for applications must close on Sunday at 23:59 BST. From Monday, all applications will be in the hands of our 150+ Shortlist Stage Judges: those who will help select the shortlist. Those judges represent 38 countries, over 70 higher education institutions, and possess over 2700 years’ worth of educational expertise. You can meet them at https://www.reimagine-education.com/judging-panel/.

A variety of compelling contributions this week are provided by:

• Sophie Bailey of the EdTech Podcast, who interviews the NHS’s Learning Technologies Advisor;
• Viraj Patwardhan, who offers a critical examination of the appropriateness and efficacy of Virtual Reality in Healthcare Education settings;
• Raghavv Sharma, whose organization, Uplift Inc., aims to assist startups as they seek to globalize.

We’re also offering some Reimaginer Community introductions this week. They include:

• Dayton and Eileen Johnson, who are our first-ever Applicant Success Partners. They’ll provide invaluable assistance as our shortlisted entrants prepare to navigate one of the most competitive educational award processes around;
• Our UK Shortlist-Stage Judging Cohort: Tom Gorman, Tim Stirrup, and Bob Harrison offer their takes on the challenges faced by the UK education sector.

EDTECH PRODUCT EQUALS EDTECH MARKET BY EDVISOR FINLAND

Startup investors evaluate 3 elements when deciding on whether to risk their capital; team, product and market. While team is always a key consideration in the EdTech space, there tends to be a focus on market over product. Edvisor Finland explore how the ingredients of an EdTech product decides market distribution and market share. In doing so, it serves as a reminder to EdTech start-ups and investors of the primacy of education in EdTech.

INTRODUCING: OUR APPLICANT SUCCESS PARTNER

Reimagine offers its shortlisted applicants the opportunity to present in front of a global audience. Succeed in telling your story by engaging your audience and clearly conveying the importance and relevance of your work, and product impact, with firm conviction.

Learn more about Dayton Johnson Executive Search and Consultancy, Reimagine Education’s Applicant Success Partner, and book your FREE coaching session!

LEVERAGING GLOBALIZATION TO IMPROVE WORLDWIDE EDUCATION

Globalization has provided significant improvements to education standards across the globe and several best practices have been observed and transferred from one country to another with greater ease. Uplift Inc. aims to empower every startup in the edtech field to look beyond their perceived markets and to start planning for international expansion, particularly the startup from countries that have strong teaching cultures. Raghavv Sharma, CEO of Uplift, tell us more – below.

VIRTUAL REALITY IN HEALTHCARE EDUCATION

Though, like many technologies, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality offer plenty of potential for educational implementations, there is still much work to be done to establish both when it is appropriate to introduce this technology in educational settings, and how to ensure that this introduction is effective. Our Reimagine Education Finalist-Stage Judge, Viraj Patwardhan, aims to consider these issues as examined through a healthcare education lens

THE EDTECH PODCAST #161: EDUCATING ENGLAND’S HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE

This week, Sophie Bailey speaks to Richard Price – Learning Technologies Advisor at NHS Health Education England – about preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future, how to communicate training objectives across an enormous and diverse workforce, and how to assess new technologies and their impact on learning. Lots of transferable lessons for anyone utilizing or deploying digital skills!

Sophie’s also launching a new series on adult and vocational training, whose launch will take place in London on 18th September. It promises to be a characteristically compelling session, and those able to attend should register here.

JUDGES’ CORNER: THE UNITED KINGDOM

Each issue, we’ll be introducing you to different members of our judging panel: what challenges do they believe are preoccupying their education sector? What outstandingly innovative, effective solutions have they seen, of which our readership might wish to take note? And what characterizes education in their sphere?

This first feature sees us catch up with three of our United Kingdom judges: Tom Gorman, a former Reimagine Education Hybrid Learning winner from the University of Coventry; Tim Stirrup, New Business Manager at Cool Initiatives; and Bob Harrison, whose sterling educational background has taken him to the position of Trustee at the UFL Trust. Meet them here.

SUPPORT EDUCATION’S “OSCARS”

With an Awards program contested by over 1,000 top academic faculty and edtech companies, and an international event attended by over 500 pedagogical pioneers from across the globe, Reimagine Education is at the very forefront of cutting-edge approaches to education.

Supporting Reimagine means supporting one billion future learners. Supporting Reimagine means placing your institution in front of education’s finest change-makers. Supporting Reimagine means emphasizing your deeply-held institutional commitment to educational change. If you’d like to join our global group of esteemed sponsors and partners, contact us today.

REIMAGINE EDUCATION 2019: EVENT PREVIEW

Check out the Reimagine Education Conference London preview featured in this Education Technology article!

The Reimagine Education Conference will take place from 8–10 December.

The day of workshops will take place at Imperial College Business School – the event’s official co-host – on 8 December , while the shortlisted showcases, panels, keynotes and awards ceremony will take place at London’s Queen Elizabeth II Centre on 9 and 10 December.