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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL
OCTOBER - 27 - 2015
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50 Most Promising Education Tech Solution Providers 2015
W
ith the advent of technology in education,
schools, colleges and universities are exploring
newer ways of carrying out the whole process
of teaching, learning and administration. These
technologies are helping them to augment their services in
multiple areas—be it maintaining records, providing online
educational resources, or streamlining administration with
reduced paperwork. The other opportunities include greater
access to rich, multimedia content that goes beyond traditional
linear text based learning environment, and the use of mobility
and cloud that takes classes to wherever the students are.
Also, the educators are using social networking tools to set up
collaborative learning and digital games for more personalized
learning. These technology-based contributions have gone a
long way into creating an inspiring environment for learners and
a broad channel to dispense knowledge for the educators.
3P Learning Inc
recognized by
magazine as
50 MOST PROMISING
Education Tech
SOLUTION PROVIDERS - 2015
Meanwhile, this pace of technological disruptions in
education sector is also creating significant challenges for
educational institutions. The main challenge is to catch up with
emerging digital innovations that require these institutions
to upgrade their existing IT infrastructure and build new
development programs. To address these issues, a distinguished
panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, analysts including CIO
Review editorial board have selected the leading firms that
offers best-of-breed technology solutions and services in the
education sector.
The selection panel looked at the vendor’s capability to
fulfill needs of buyers with effective solutions that curb the
challenges and promote business growth. In this edition of CIO
Review, we bring to you “50 Most Promising Education Tech
Solution Providers 2015”, featuring the most prolific vendors in
the educational sector.
Company:
Description:
3P Learning
A highly engaging
curriculum-aligned online
education provider offering
integrated learning for
students.
Key Person:
Peter Walters,
CEO
An annual listing of 50 companies that are in the forefront of providing
Education Technology Solutions and impacting the marketplace
Pradeep Shankar
Editor-in-Chief
Website:
www.3plearning.com
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3P Learning
A Culture of Innovation in Education
Technology
K
-12 education is bustling through a major curriculum transformation with a focus on
data-driven instruction and continued
integration of technologies in various hybrid
and device agnostic environment. CIOs today
are looking for world-class technologies to
meet the cross curricular needs for STEM
and encourage students to engage in learning outside the classroom. Aligned with over
a dozen international curricula, 3P Learning
has developed an online platform, designed by
global educational technologists, to provide students with holistic educational experience.
The Sydney-born company 3P Learning, based
also in New York, offers a suite of highly engaging
and curriculum-aligned online education platforms, providing
integrated learning for students in mathematics (Mathletics),
spelling and literacy (Spellodrome), reading skills (Reading
Eggs), and science learning (IntoScience). “A core principle
of our interactive approach is built on our three core pillars—
‘engagement, differentiation, and innovation.’ Our powerful
teaching resources are designed to ignite the love for learning in
a child and ensure that it is prolonged, protected, nurtured, and
rewarded,” says Peter Walters, CEO at 3P Learning.
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Our powerful teaching resources
are designed to ignite the love
for learning in a child and
ensure that it is prolonged,
protected, nurtured,
and rewarded
With operations across six continents, the global education
provider upholds the principle that technology should ‘augment’
and not simply ‘facilitate’ the learning process. The ideology has
driven them towards utilizing the digital environment innovatively
within the classroom. It includes connecting students in live online
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competitions and creating a dynamic content delivery
system for their mobile app to deliver an infinite
number of learning pathways within a single
app. Additionally, the company helps in
building an engaging reward structure and
providing teachers with access to live and
interactive data on a student’s progress.
For instance, one of 3P Learning’s
innovative approaches to learning - the
complete digital 3D-mapping of a realPeter Walters
world cave system - provides students
with deep inquiry-based exploration in the
geology and chemistry. Also, 3P introduced
the world’s first online learning tool that is
accessible ‘offline’, with dynamic sync technology
developed in-house. “Written on the wall of our innovation
lab is ‘fail fast, learn faster.’ We are not petrified to innovate,
explore. We make mistakes and we learn. We expect the same
from our students. Our development and commercial arms follow
‘John Rockefeller style’ business strategies. We are mavericks and
glad to be,” points out Walters.
Bringing innovation to full bloom, the company’s analytic
mindset created the world largest education event of its kind, the
World Education Games (WEG) - an annual online competition
for schools around the world. “The motto for this event has
been ‘connecting the world in learning’. WEG has always been
free of charge and is designed as a celebration of learning and
achievement,” states Walters. 3P Learning’s philanthropic approach
and their conviction, “every child should have the opportunity
to love learning,” have led them to join forces with UNICEF to
launch a 3P-WEG partnership. As a part of WEG and 3P’s yearround subscription resources, schools raise funds for UNICEF by
participating in their learning programs. “To date, over 100,000
students in UNICEF-supported areas have been given access to
education through the 3P and UNICEF partnership,” he adds.
With a global position already accomplished in a short time,
the knowledge-oriented company’s future lies in moving faster
toward full accessibility of online education. “We are partnering
with Microsoft, the Royal Society of Chemistry, CSIRO in
Australia, and Desmos to deliver integrated learning. While 3P
Learning products are customized to meet local or national needs,
their impact is consistent across education systems, cultures or
geography”, concludes Walters.
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