Belouga – Connecting Classrooms Around The World

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Recently I spoke with Alex Mathews, a senior web application developer at Belouga, a free, web-based educational platform connecting classrooms all around the world. This cutting-edge company has quickly been expanding, now offering over 900 classes in 60+ countries since their launch in September 2016. Incorporating easy to use technology, Belouga is the perfect enhancement for any teacher looking to expand his or her classroom beyond borders. Their platform also rewards participating students with points and uses these points to provide items to schools around the world that are under-resourced.
Bio:
Founded in 2016, Belouga was started with the mission to encourage intercultural communication to create a better tomorrow. We're building a global ecosystem where students and teachers can connect, collaborate and learn from one another by identifying similarities and embracing differences through everyday communication that is fun and educational.
With the advancement of technology in the classroom, we saw an amazing opportunity to connect students from all over the world, regardless of timezones. Along with bringing students together, we also saw an opportunity to enhance student life around the world on a daily basis.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.7	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:26.3	Hello, this is Tracy Murda here for Future Tech Podcast on behalf of Richard Jacobs.
0:32.3	Today I have a very special guest.
0:35.0	I have the tech lead for Beluga, Alex Matthews. Beluga is a very interesting
0:40.7	company. It's a web-based educational platform that connects classrooms around the world. So, Alex,
0:47.4	I want to thank you so much for giving me your time. I know you're a busy guy, so thank you so
0:52.2	much for stopping and having a chat with us today.
0:55.4	Yeah, of course. It's great to be here.
0:57.1	Well, let's start out with, obviously, you know, tell me a little bit about, well, your background
1:02.3	and your studies and kind of what brought you into this atmosphere that Malugas in.
1:08.6	So for me personally, I've been uh looking for uh new like
1:14.4	startups to to work with i'm i'm a very uh person who likes to build something from the ground up
1:20.5	and uh i'm always been very interested in uh global outreach um in education and uh when I found Beluga, it was almost like a
1:30.9	perfect fit because we got to create this, this magnificent platform from scratch. And it was,
1:41.2	it was something that was almost like a right place, right time kind of thing.
1:47.7	I've been working as a lead developer on a few different projects, but I was looking for a new
1:56.6	challenge to really start something from the ground up. And I think that Baluga offers like the best
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