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S2E11. Will the Consumerization of Education Continue? With Jennifer Carolan
What Students Want
English - September 07, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEducation education school k-12 learner learning marketing higher ed Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Summary
Our guest today is Jennifer Carolan. Jennifer started her career as a classroom teacher in a Chicago district. She then moved to California to attend Stanford, and there got inspired to use her teaching experience in support od tech founders. So she joined NewSchools Venture Fund where she learned the craft of VC, while also co-creating and teaching a course at Stanford. After that, Jennifer co-founded Reach Capital, with a first fund in 2000, a second fund in 2018 and a third fund more recently.
In this episode, Jennifer and I talk about how student engagement is an outcome of strong pedagogy. We then describe a new generation of global education companies that are partnering with school districts and we caution policy makers that need to rise to the occasion in order to keep innovation from escaping the public school system. Finally we talk about different promising edtech categories and end up with the conclusion that parents are the stakeholders that still lack a lot of support in the ecosystem.
Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:
Where to learn more about Jennifer:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/jencarolanWebsite - https://www.reachcapital.comWhere to learn more about Enrollhand:
Website - www.enrollhand.comWebinar - https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.com