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Jefferson Education Accelerator Picks First Partner

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July 29, 2015

The Jefferson Education Accelerator, an effort by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education to help efficacious educational technology companies, has found its first partner company: the online learning platform provider Echo360. The accelerator supports companies that have progressed past the start-up stage and provides services such as consulting, mentoring and efficacy research. A spokesperson for the JEA said information about which organizations will help the accelerator research the efficacy of partnering with ed-tech companies will be released in the coming months.

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