Prominent women in EdTech are proving efficiency in conventional education and education technology alike

Education technology has come a long way with the help of educators recognizing the significance of having digital education in place. Women leaders have contributed to being at the forefront in commencing prosperous EdTech companies, however, male dominance in the technology industry is overshadowing this as well. Women in EdTech have created inspirational examples of themselves in the world that deserves attention from every hard-working individual out there.

Daphne Koller

One of most exemplified women in EdTech pioneering as the founder of one of the eminent EdTech companies, Coursera. Now, Coursers is included under the umbrella of unicorn companies and have more than 40 million subscribers with a turnover of more than USD 1 million. Seven years ago, Daphne Koller coined this idea after conducting an online class for students to learn. Prior to becoming an EdTech Entrepreneur and inspiring millions of women in the world, she was a professor in Stanford University. She along with her fellow friend Andrew Ng established this online platform.

Lynda Weinmann

Women in EdTech have not only led the way for other females but have also left lasting impressions even at their exit. One of these women is Lynda Weinmann who founded Lynda, lately known as LinkedIn Learning. The EdTech company was sold at a value of USD 1.5 Billion which considered awe-striking as such a big pocket investment have always been extracted by men before this. But by selling the company to LinkedIn at a merciless price, Weinmann proved women are too made for larger proportion of share.

Susie Seaton

The primary school teacher is amongst the leading ladies in EdTech company business. As a women leader in education technology industry, she has created her own EdTech platform Twinkl. It was not different than any ordinary afterwork day that she created the platform which is now an online library consisting of more than 65,000 resources. The resources are not only limited to e-books and presentations but also include AR-powered study materials. The inspirational excerpt does not end here the EdTech company is at the moment run by 500 employees across the world.

Priya Lakhani

The struggles encountered by educators in a conventional mode of education was given though by Priya Lakhani one of those women in EdTech, who have conquered her big dream of entrepreneurship. Recently with the Belgian government, Lakhani has signed agreements to trade her AI-powered EdTech solution. Almost 700 new schools in Belgium have adopted her technology. This is an addition to an already successful deployment in education centers of countries like Britain to Lebanon (where Syrian refugees are taught).

Melody Lang

Another extremely inspirational woman and owner of an investment company that is inclined specifically on the EdTech industry. She is amongst those women leaders who offer immense support to the innovations and techniques in EdTech, that are specially introduced by people who have prior experience in the education industry as that determines better outcomes for the EdTech company. Lang is herself an educational researcher and proposes an adaptive learning environment. She funds over eight companies of which six are founded by women in EdTech as she can contemplate a positive impact there.

Siobhain Archer

An academician guiding English students in the secondary level turned out as an EdTech entrepreneur when she succeeded in establishing her firm “Teachit”, which was later acquired by GCSE. The parent organization under which it was operating, asked her firm to back out as it was extracting all the bandwidth. This occurred due to the overwhelming success is derived from the learners. The resource platform was almost excelling boundaries that were not planned initially.

Women in EdTech have a greater role than men is because of their historically strong presence in the education industry. It is worthwhile to admit that 70 per cent of the educators are women and an EdTech company can only progress when it is conceptualized by an academician. This is because no technology entrepreneur can understand the hidden opportunities of EdTech as better as educators do.