Dive Brief:

• Tech & Learning magazine has selected Nepris as a 2014 winner of its Awards of Excellence.
• The K-12, cloud-based tool allows educators to invite industry professionals into their classroom to have virtual discussions with their students.
• Professionals available via Nepris possess a variety of knowledge, focused largely in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.

Dive Insight:

The way Nepris works is educators enter curriculum, objective goals, and needs into the platform, after which the site selects the appropriate professional for the classroom's desired outcome. Nepris is then in charge of the "end-to-end" process of creating a virtual meeting between the classroom and the professional. To put it into perspective, TED Talks are great for infusing some real-world connections into the classroom, but what if you could make those talks interactive? That's basically what Nepris does. Field trips too expensive? Nepris makes it simple. District in a rural area that would make it hard to bring in industry experts for an hour? Again, Nepris makes it easy.  

Tech & Learning, which has conducted this award process for the past 32 years, recognized 102 ed tech companies this year.