EdTech Hub's Evidence-Led Entrepreneurship 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 have now launched our course content to the public, created for entrepreneurs to access and learn at their own pace, along with dedicated toolkits specifically designed for those who support them, including funders, accelerators, and champions of EdTech entrepreneurs.

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Develop New Skills to Deliver Quality Educational Experiences

For EdTech entrepreneurs and practitioners

Enroll in our open access course: Identify and dive into the rigorous, step-by-step evidence you need to develop and scale your product or service. You will gain insights which will enable you to help children to learn and teachers to teach.

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For funders, accelerators, and champions of EdTech entrepreneurs

Access our handbooks: Through working with 100+ entrepreneurs, we’ve refined our method for evidence coaching and peer learning. Our Handbooks share the approaches we believe work best.

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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, 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.

Why This Course is Right For You

Join 100+ entrepreneurs who have completed the course. Dive into our course and handbooks if you are:

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

FAQ’s about the course

What You’ll Need

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.

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?

Unit 1: Foundational Literacy & Numeracy

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.

Unit 2: Product Design

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

Unit 3: Scaling your EdTech Product

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

Hear From the Graduates of Our Cohort-Based Course

Julius Njuguna

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.”

Malombe Victor

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.”

Prosper Ukachi

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.”

About the Handbooks

We’ve distilled our most effective practices from running the Course for five cohorts of EdTech entrepreneurs, and we are excited to share them with you.

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

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.

Read on the Evidence Library

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.