Connect-In-Place : startup disrupts socializing and learning during COVID-19 / Andrew M. Isaacs, Natàlia Costa i Coromina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Isaacs, Andrew M., author.

Costa i Coromina, Natàlia, author.

Series:

SAGE Business cases.

SAGE Business cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New business enterprises--Case studies.

New business enterprises.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--influence--Case studies.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : The Berkeley-Haas Case Series. University of California, Berkeley. Haas School of Business, 2021.

Summary:

When two UC Berkeley students were unexpectedly forced to leave their classrooms and transition to online classes due to COVID-19 in spring 2020, they adjusted to a very new normal. However, due to shared experience championing educational equality, they realized that younger (K-12) students forced into online learning would likely suffer social isolation and reduced learning. So, the two undergrads brainstormed (remotely) about how a startup could tackle some of the new educational and emotional challenges that pre-college students would face due to pandemic restrictions.The first free session of Connect-In-Place (CIP) launched in June 2020 fulfilling the initial mission of building a learning community intended to ease isolation. After several pivots, by February 2021, CIP had built a small but global learning team. Key questions remained: Should CIP be organized as a for-profit company or as a nonprofit entity? How would a team of volunteer college students stay committed even while attending school full time? What opportunities and challenges lay ahead for CIP's business model? What impact was CIP having on whom, and how might that impact be measured?

Notes:

Orginally Published InIsaacs, A., & Coromina, N. C. (2021). Connect-In-Place: Startup Disrupts Socializing and Learning During COVID-19. The Berkeley-Haas Case Series. University of California, Berkeley. Haas School of Business.

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ISBN:

1-5297-9764-0

9781529797640

OCLC:

1289628170