Author: Sam Derby

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EdTech Strategy Team Pieces Training

Hybrid collaboration in the workplace and the classroom

Mac laptop on a school desk showing a video conference call happening while in a classroom. The teacher sits at the front wearing a face mask but the rest of the classroom appears empty.
Image by Lucas Law via Unsplash.

Whether for educational purposes, work, art, culture or social life, a period of experimentation with hybrid collaboration approaches.

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EdTech Research Strategy Team Pieces

Investment in EdTech

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Image by Igor Starkov @igorstarkoff via Unsplash.

One year into an unprecedented mass experiment on using technology to deliver teaching, investment in EdTech continues to grow strongly. Oriel Square Director, Sam Derby, looks at EdTech’s trajectory and gives his top tips for navigating the world of EdTech investment.

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EdTech Publishing Strategy Training

Using agile principles to deliver a publishing project

In 2018, Amy was leading on the development of a brand new maths programme at a UK-based global education company. In this article, she explains how Oriel Square helped her use agile principles to develop, articulate and deploy new processes to deliver a key publishing project.

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EdTech Strategy Team Pieces Training

Online engagement and the human element

Oriel Square Director Sam Derby reflects on a rapid period of learning and development in the world of online training and facilitation.

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Publishing Strategy Team Pieces Training

Agile principles in practice

This short article outlines why at Oriel Square we use the manifesto and principles of agile to inform best practice in project leadership and personal effectiveness.