Evidence-Led Entrepreneurship: A Course

Over two years and five cohorts, EdTech Hub ran a specialised course for entrepreneurs. The course curates evidence on scaling foundational literacy and numeracy focused EdTech products.

We will soon launch our course content for entrepreneurs and have created toolkits specifically designed for those who support them.

Check back at the end of October for information on how to sign up
for the course.

Develop new skills to deliver quality educational experiences

About the course

The opportunity for EdTech entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa is bigger than ever. Yet, many products fail to survive, scale, or deliver impact.

In partnership with Jacobs Foundation and Gates Foundation, EdTech Hub developed a 12 week online course, with 100+ entrepreneurs selected to take part.

The course, set to launch in October, has been specially designed to support the budding EdTech entrepreneur ecosystem in Africa. The course is unique in that it focuses explicitly on giving you access to high-quality evidence from reputable sources in the world of EdTech and entrepreneurship. Find out more about what you will learn here.

Our goal is to help entrepreneurs save time, money, and avoid unnecessary pivots by sharing the best insights others have already learned about teaching and learning, product development, and scaling.

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Language

The course is in English. (Some browsers offer a translation option).

Experience

Anyone seeking to build an EdTech product, no matter how early stage!

Time commitment

Learn at your own pace, and spend as much or as little time as you like.

Why this course is right for you

Join 90+ entrepreneurs who have completed the course. Dive into our course and handbooks if you are:

Founder
Founder
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A Founder (or potential Founder) developing an EdTech idea.
Head of Product
Head of Product
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A Head of Product, Impact or similar role looking to refine an evidence-led approach to building EdTech products.
Entrepreneurship Programme
Entrepreneurship Programme
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An entrepreneurship programme working with edtech entrepreneurs, seeking to seed evidence-led approaches to growth and impact.
Funder or Accelerator
Funder or Accelerator
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A funder or accelerator looking for new ways to give EdTech startups in your portfolio a greater chance of scaling.
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What you will learn

The course will help you answer questions like:

  • What is proven to drive learning outcomes?
  • What evidence exists on different technologies, equity, and systemic factors?
  • How do we continuously learn and improve our product?
  • What different options and pathways exist for scaling edtech ideas?

The first module of this course starts by distilling critical evidence on teaching and learning, with a focus on foundational literacy and numeracy, to help foster this potential.

This module explores the science of product development. It presents proven approaches for designing, building, testing and iterating an EdTech product. 

This module explores the science of scaling. It explores proven practice for successfully, sustainably scaling your mission.

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Hear from the graduates of our cohort-based course

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"I couldn't have imagined the magnitude of what awaited me in the process, and the special support I would get from incredible persons along the way."

Julius Njuguna

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"I found great value in undertaking this course due to its practical alignment with my startup's journey… the course served as a wake-up call, highlighting the importance of embracing the process and utilising evidence to avoid failure."

Malombe Victor

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"I love the fact that, while I had time to skim through the whole course to pick out what I wanted to know for teachers in the classroom, the course also had knowledge for other spheres of learning and teaching delivery which I found to be very pivotal to me, when I would need to introduce those lines of thought into my work."

Prosper Ukachi

What you will takeaway from this course

Applying evidence in EdTech
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Develop new skills

About the handbooks

We’ve distilled our most effective practices from running the Course for five cohorts of EdTech entrepreneurs, and can’t wait to share them with you at the end of October.

The Cohort Learning Handbook shares EdTech Hub’s cohort learning methodology. This cohort building journey highlights our five key principles of cohort learning. The handbook comes complete with guides, tools and templates to support EdTech entrepreneurs in a portfolio, cohort or community to learn from each other.

The Evidence Coaching Handbook shares EdTech Hub’s approach and process for providing direct support to entrepreneurs, on generating and applying evidence to challenges they face on their journey to scale and impact.

Support EdTech entrepreneurs to reach their full potential

COMING SOON

Cohort Learning Handbook

A guide to nurturing peer learning between EdTech entrepreneurs.

Full access to EdTech Hub’s cohort learning methodology. This cohort building journey highlights our five key principles of cohort learning. The handbook comes complete with guides, tools and templates.

COMING SOON

Evidence Coaching Handbook

A guide to tailored, hands-on support to EdTech entrepreneurs.

Complete access to EdTech Hub’s process for supporting growth-stage entrepreneurs to generate and apply evidence. The handbook comes complete with tips, guides, tools and templates for anyone to use.

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