Industry Education technology Founder Aldo de Pape Area served Worldwide | Founded October 2014 Headquarters Shoreditch, London Website www.teachpitch.com | |
TeachPitch is an Edtech company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, which provides a cloud-based platform for teachers and schools to discover and manage online educational resources.
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History
Aldo de Pape founded TeachPitch in July 2014, the online platform itself was officially launched three months later in October 2014. TeachPitch was founded as a solution to the problem of the growing abundance of online learning resources combined with the time and budget constraints that teachers face. The inspiration for TeachPitch came from De Pape’s own experience of teaching Economics to high school students with special needs. By building a global community of Teachers, TeachPitch wants to help bringing teachers around the world closer together so they can find and share the best resources on the web.
Since its founding, TeachPitch has been featured in Hot Topics' list of most influential EdTech Leaders in the World and was listed as one of Europe's 20 fastest growing e-Learning companies by EdTech Europe. Furthermore, TeachPitch was selected in 2015 to participate in the Accelerator program of the World Innovation Summit for Education, Qatar. In October 2016, TeachPitch was shortlisted on the 2016 Great British Technology Shortlist in the Education Technology category by the Great British Entrepreneur Awards. In addition, TeachPitch gained the support of TusStar Incubator, affiliated with Tsinghua University, to grow its operations in China. As of August 2016, TeachPitch operates from offices based in London (United Kingdom), Tirana (Albania), and Beijing (China). The company currently comprises 17 people.
Functionality
TeachPitch offers its users a teacher-curated library system that allows users to save, rate, review and share digitally available educational resources while discovering personal learning ideas from other users. TeachPitch brings resources from a wide variety of educational sources together in the library. The platform enables the user to select material based on teaching subject, target audience, format and time available. In addition, teachers can follow colleagues and can develop a network of contacts who share similar educational content suggestions.