StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 113 PractitionersTeach is an online directory of corporate executives, managers and other professionals who have an interest in teaching at university or in secondary education and have either experience in teaching or a teaching certificate. Experienced practitioners are commonly used to teach on MBA programmes and in acting courses, for example, but are starting to become more common outside the business school and drama department. The company has its own teaching certification, consisting of an online course and an exam. The directory also has a depository of links to videos and podcasts of teaching materials by practitioners, including YouTube videos and TED talks. CEO QUOTE "We create a marketplace, a two-sided network. On the one side there are all those gifted and experienced people who are interested in teaching and developing the talent of the next generation. On the other side are all the education institutions, which desperately need current an...

StartupRealities No 40 TeachersAct is an online education company which uses professional actors for recording and teaching online courses. Professors and pedagogy experts prepare the content and then guide the actors to deliver the content on camera. Students like the passion of the actors and the intensity of the experience, which makes even asynchronous (non-real-time) delivery as impactful as synchronous (live) delivery. CEO QUOTE: "How many movies can you remember in which the director was also the leading actor? Woody Allen, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson. That's about it. Why do directors need actors to perform on film? Because actors do a better job of acting than most directors. And the other way round: directors do a better job of directing than most actors. So why does the education world continue to insist that research professors should teach, not only in the classroom but nowadays also on camera? Why not give professors the #EducationDirector role...

StartupRealities No 22 RockLinguist Limited is a group of foreign-language teaching schools which use guitar players as language teachers and all language learning occurs through foreign language songs and lyrics. SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION A series of research papers (the most recent from McGill University published on February 27 , 2020) show that there is a connection between music and speech in the human brain. This explains why it is much easier to remember a sentence that has a tune attached to it: "I want to hold your hand" is easy-peasy when you sing it like the Beatles. INTERVIEW WITH THE CEO "When you sign up for a RockLinguist course in English, you are virtually joining a rock band. Seriously!" said company founder and CEO Rochelle Lingers. "Our language teachers play the guitar to their students for half of the duration of the class. They all sit in a circle, teacher and students, and there is a lot of group singing and sometimes even dancing....