About.
The Edtech Fellowship is run by Marion and Matt out of a desire to provide support to people trying to innovate in learning. It was formed by bringing together two projects:
Matt was running a course on Finding Product-Market Fit in EdTech as a way delivering the coaching and advice he already offered in a more useful and scalable way.
He was looking for ways to support the alumni and offer a light weight option for those that didn’t yet need an intensive programme.
Marion had been running a community for EdTech product managers and when her cofounder moved on, was looking for a new collaborator.
Marion was an alumni of Matt’s course. Matt was a member of Marion’s community. It made sense to join forces!
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Marion Trigodet
Learning Strategist, former Head of Learning OpenClassrooms and Tomorrow University
Marion is a Learning Design & Learning Product Expert. She builds learning experiences with product & startup leaders.
At OpenClassrooms, she led a team of 10 highly talented learning designers to build the online courses catalog: +600 free courses followed by +14 000 learners of 190 nationalities.
As a Head of Learning & Community at Tomorrow University, she built the Learning Model & Strategy to increase the Learning Offer 5x and foster +300% growth of learners community.
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Matt Walton
Product Coach/Advisor, founding Chief Product Officer FutureLearn
Matt is an edtech coach and advisor and works with edtech startups, scale ups and universities.
He was founding Chief Product Officer at FutureLearn, one of Europe’s biggest edtech platforms partnering with hundreds of universities, growing it to 14m learners and securing over £50m in investment.
He recently was fractional CPO at LIS, a new start up university and learned his product craft at the BBC.
Our 7Ps.
1. People
The community is designed for Learning Changemakers. These include EdTech founders and leaders, product managers, learning designers and people in established organisations driving transformation.
We think this group has a shared sense of purpose but is diverse and broad enough to make the conversation interesting.
2. Purpose
We believe this shared sense of purpose is creating new transformational learning experiences. This group are often doing a unique role in their organisation and looking for external support and inspiration. One of the biggest insights that came out of our research is a desire to find somewhere to explore this stuff with others and not feel alone.
3. Place
The community lives both online and in person.
Online we use a community platform called Circle and a delightful online workshop tool called Butter.
Matt runs in person meet ups in rooms-above-a-pub in London. Marion is based in Berlin and intends to kick off a local group there. As we grow, perhaps we’ll add more cities to the mix.
Most of the early members of the community are based in Europe, which we also believe might be an interesting differentiator to the various US communities that exist and alongside reflecting Europe’s distinctive culture in education.
4. Participation
We’re offering two tiers:
Community
Cohort-based courses
We’ll be co designing the community offer with our members but from our initial research the kinds of activities we intend to enable are:
Sharing challenges, getting support and external perspectives
Sharing case studies, resources and artefacts of what works for building learning products
Our cohort-based courses include:
Self-paced learning
Workshops with small cohorts to apply concepts and methods
Peer intros and mentoring
1:1 coaching
5. Policy
Our primary aim is to create a network of people where there is a genuine sense of connection and support.
We’re not interested in creating a Slack group with thousands of anonymous faces or just putting money behind a bar and letting people get on with it.
We want to help people that want to make a difference create an impact and feel that they have a group of people that they can turn to for support when they are trying to do hard things for the first time.
6. Promotion
Our primary channel has been LinkedIn. Follow Matt and Marion and you’ll see us posting things that we think will benefit the wider community.
Our Substack newsletter is also a channel. Please recommend it to folks you think would be interested!
7. Performance
We’ll based our performance on engagement in the various activities we offer. Our primary metric of success is not the volume of people but how better supported and more confident people feel having taken part in what we offer.