In the News - How Teamie is transforming learning

Education Technology has been around for decades and evolved in form and function. Depending on definition and what is included, the market size for education technology today is worth billions of dollars. Its market potential is much larger, and there is significant venture capital money poured into EdTech startups attempting to find a solution to tackle some challenges in education, from improving access and efficiency, to efficacy and outcomes.

Teamie's Shivanu Shukla explains that the private learning platform helps to encourage interaction between students which boosts student engagement.

How can social, mobile and cloud technology be used to transform education? SJI International School in Singapore has implemented a new platform known as Teamie, to create a collaborative virtual learning environment for the school. With a social network-like newsfeed and workspace, the platform allows students and teachers to ask questions, discuss topics, share resources and work collaboratively on projects.

Industry Analyst firm Ovum, in their report published on 29th September 2015 - Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting Online Learning Platforms for Higher Education 2015-2016, have featured Teamie as a Market Challenger and the only player from Asia Pacific that made it to the list.

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Teamie is a learning platform that lets student connect with their classmates and teachers, discuss and ask questions, work and collaborate on projects, and success their school virtually. Founders say that Teamie aims to make learning more social, fun, and engaging; drive teacher productivity by allowing mobile and web access to grading tools and learning discussions beyond the physical classroom; and leverage the cloud to offer a subscription service that is affordable, manageable with their limited IT resources, and not cost-prohibitive.

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SINGAPORE — The newest catchphrase in online education is social learning. Several start-up companies have begun offering cloud-based platforms that combine education and social media. Companies like Teamie, based in Singapore, provide software that lets teachers create, share and manage academic content, and also let students collaborate on assignments on platforms that are similar to the "walls" used on Facebook.

Teamie is a cloud-based social learning platform that harnesses the power of social networking to make learning collaborative & fun. Teamie has a layer of social collaboration on top of easy learning management tools and added an analytics engine to provide insights and recommendations to improve the learning process and performance. Teamie creates a structured social network that is safe, and creates collaborative "classrooms" for students, teachers with access to parents & management.

Want to sell your business idea? Asian start-ups got a chance last week at the Startups in Asia event. HELLEN TAN reports Teamie, a learning management start-up, has bagged bragging rights and the US$10,000 (S$12,500) first prize in a competition in the inaugural Startups in Asia event here. A total of 19 start-ups pitched their ideas and business plans to venture capitalists, who judged them at last week's event. The cash was icing on the cake for Teamie's co-founder and chief executive, Mr Shivanu Shukla.

This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson's first tech conference. A full 19 startups entered our Startup Arena competition, but only one comes out alive… Well, with a huge cheque for US$10,000. And the winner is… Teamie. The educational collaboration platform was deemed the startup most disruptive and with the most potential in terms of revenue and scope. Take a look at Teamie's startup pitch, which they presented yesterday, to see what you make of it. It's not just about cash and glory, they also win some great kit: Lenovo E220s laptops, Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phones, a SkySQL premium subscription package, and an Amazon Kindle Fire with $1,200 worth of credit.