Maven Education is a new social enterprise with a mission to improve the culture of Continuing Professional Development for teachers.
We are working on building an online service that introduces teachers to a wider world of CPD, and gives credit for sharing!
Working with Dik Knights and Tony Parkin, two of the smartest and most insightful people in EdTech, we are shaping a Minimum Viable Product around the needs of teachers.
Free for teachers to use, Maven Education will enable teachers to be able to find colleagues that share their CPD interests; give and get open badges for their efforts; and connect with other organisations that might be able to help them. Maven Education will also help academics and policy makers to be able to find teachers/schools as partners in research.
Of course, there is more detail, but as we work with partners and friends to get the roadmap right, we are holding fire.
To be honest, I’d been sitting on the idea for a while, getting my strength back after an earlier project, which failed (see here). Determined to fail better, I have been learning the lessons and listening more carefully to the advice of friends. I shared Maven for the first time at ed-invent, where it won the prize and got fantastic feedback.
If you would like to be involved in the Beta, join the team, invest, or help us by giving some feedback, please get in touch.