Leading an impactful EdTech enterprise

In this practical course, participants will design impact strategies using key frameworks that efficiently strengthen capacity in organisations to build impactful and trustworthy EdTech products. Participants will learn about the 6-Superpower model of impactful EdTech enterprises (Moeini, 2020) and develop the mindsets, capacities, processes, assets and strategies necessary for enterprises to build trustworthy and high-quality educational tools. 

Course content

New knowledge

• Foundational knowledge and research on how to lead impactful EdTech enterprises; 
• The application of frameworks to develop strong Impact Strategies for EdTech products;
• The role of leadership and key team members in these processes;
• Agile research strategies to support impact measurement.

Skills developed

• EdTech company leadership
• Impact Strategy development
• Impact evaluation processes
• Data analysis processes
• Needs analysis processes
• Resource management
• Agile research methods

Teaching and structure

The course is structured around practical workshops in which team members work together in their individual companies to develop an Impact Strategy for their enterprise. Inputs will be given by course leaders to introduce key ideas and frameworks in an interactive format with lots of opportunities for discussion.

An online interactive workbook will guide the course activity in which participants will work collaboratively on tasks. Individual support will be provided throughout in response to questions and challenges that arise. There is a maximum capacity of 20 participants, with each company working in teams of 2-3 participants to maximise the practical value of the course for each company’s context.

Learning outcomes

The goal of this course is to develop leadership skills and know-how to lead an impactful EdTech enterprise. In the course, participants will start to develop the capacities necessary to lead an impactful EdTech enterprise.

The major learning outcomes will be how to write and implement an Impact Strategy, how to measure impact continuously, how to lead and manage research activities in a way that is empowering to leadership to make evidence-informed decisions, and how to ultimately build impactful and trustworthy products that deliver on their promise to users.

Preparation

There will be a pre-course task, which will be sent to registered participants at least two weeks before the course. This will include a short piece of pre-reading, and an initial company-based activity to gather some company-specific materials that will be needed during the course.

Target audience

Participants are ideally leadership team members of EdTech enterprises in teams of 2-3 members per company. If all participants cannot be senior leadership, at least one must be from the leadership team of the organisation. Teams should represent a cross-section of company functions/departments to be able to consider various perspectives in the company during the collaborative group activities. 

Eligibility requirements include: 

• 2-3 team members from the company.
• At least one team member should be senior leadership (preferably all).
• Team members represent different functions across the organisation.
• All team members can attend all three days of the course.

Costs and booking

There are two packages for this course, Duo and Trio. Both packages cover course materials, certificate of attendance, refreshments and lunch.

• Duo Package – £5,995 for two participants from the same company
• Trio Package – £7,200 for three participants from the same company

The course will run over three days between Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 June, inclusive, from 09:30 to 16:30 each day.

If you wish to book the course or discuss it further, please fill out the expression of interest form to be reviewed by the course leaders. Dr Anissa Moeini will then reach out to you with the registration link or further questions. For further information on the course, visit the case study page IOE alumna’s start up launches impact-building short course for EdTech businesses.

Image: Alejandro Walter Salinas Lopez for UCL.