Developer(s) Nearpod LLC Type Digital learning | Available in English Website nearpod.com | |
Nearpod is an educational cross-platform application that allows teachers to create and share interactive lessons with their students. The software provides tools for both students and teachers. Teachers can download multimedia lessons from the Nearpod content store or create their own. Lesson content can include previously created slides, embedded videos, audio, images, text, PDFs, Twitter streams, and virtual field trips.
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History
Nearpod was launched in the summer of 2012 out of Southern Florida. Following work producing educational apps and e-books, Argentinian co-founders, Guido Kovalskys, Felipe Sommer, and Emiliano Abramzon developed the Nearpod mobile learning platform for the education audience. Nearpod has reached over two million students per month as of June 2015. Nearpod is headquartered in Miami, Florida and has an additional office in San Francisco, California. Since its launch in 2012, the software has won numerous awards and accolades in the category of e-learning, that also include NSBA Technology Innovation Showcase 2013.
Features
Nearpod offers three primary features.