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Funding Season: A Founder’s Guide to September’s EdTech Funding Opportunities

2026-09-02
By: Janet Mwaura
On: September 2, 2026
In: Opportunities

Here’s our curated list of EdTech funding opportunities open this September. From research grants to accelerators to pitch competitions, each is built for a different stage. Six different doors opened this month, and most founders will only notice the one they already knew about. Six different doors opened this month,Continue Reading

Engineering Online Courses That Work

Engineering Online Courses That Work: The 13 Components That Decide It

2026-07-16
By: Faith Wanyi
On: July 16, 2026
In: EdTech

A teacher I know spent three months building an online course. Real care went into it. Good slides, clear videos, a topic she knew inside out. She launched it, sat back, and waited. Eight percent finished. She did what most of us do. She blamed the learners first. Too busy,Continue Reading

The Invisible Architecture of Instructional Design

The Invisible Architecture: Why Instructional Design Is the Most Important Skill Nobody Is Teaching Properly

2026-06-18
By: John Gitonga
On: June 18, 2026
In: Instructional Design

Picture a course. Forty-five minutes of recorded lecture. A PDF of slides. A five-question quiz at the end. Published on an LMS and called online learning. This is a problem, and this is why we need Instructional design. This scene plays out thousands of times a day across schools, universities,Continue Reading

Active learning in online course

What Active Learning Actually Looks Like in an Online Course

2026-06-17
By: Danielle Thomas
On: June 17, 2026
In: Education

There is a version of an online course that looks like this: ten video lectures, each ten minutes long, chunked neatly into modules. A multiple-choice quiz at the end. A certificate when the final quiz is passed. The educator spent months building it. The production value is high. The learnerContinue Reading

The educator's course creation setup

The Educator’s Course Creation Setup: Every Tool You Actually Need

2026-05-08
By: Michael Mwaura
On: May 8, 2026
In: AI

The practical companion for educators who are serious about course quality and want to understand not just which tools exist, but why each one earns its place in a professional workflow. The Wrong Question Most Educators Ask First I have reviewed a lot of L&D technology in my work: tools,Continue Reading

Architecture of Lesson planning

The Architecture of Online Learning: A Research-Grounded Guide to Lesson Planning for Digital Educators

2026-05-05
By: Faith Wanyi
On: May 5, 2026
In: EdTech

Seven Research-Grounded Components That Transform How Digital Educators Plan, Deliver, and Assess Online Learning. A lesson plan, at its most fundamental, is a teacher’s roadmap. It transforms intention into impact, mapping the distance between what students do not yet know and what they will be able to do by theContinue Reading

Inquiry, Problem, and Project Based Learning

Stop Choosing Between Inquiry, Problem, and Project-Based Learning. Start Remixing Them.

2026-05-04
By: Danielle Thomas
On: May 4, 2026
In: Education

The debate between inquiry, problem, and project-based learning is one of education’s most persistent false choices, and it may be costing your students the best learning experiences of their school lives. Picture this. You are standing at the front of your classroom and are holding a brilliant lesson plan. YouContinue Reading

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Funding Season: A Founder’s Guide to September’s EdTech Funding Opportunities

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