Building Schools in the Cloud

CloudCast · High Altitude Learning Conversations

Conversations

In early 2025 we ran CloudCast — a series of LinkedIn Live conversations with educators building schools in the cloud around the world. These are human conversations: unscripted, practical, and generous. They now live here, on our own infrastructure, where they belong.

CloudCast

31 January 2025 · with Sam Linge · 59 m

Scaling Schools in the Cloud with TutorCruncher

Kirstin Stevens in conversation with Sam Linge of TutorCruncher — a live demo of the back office that lets a school in the cloud scale: scheduling, invoicing, safeguarding-aware administration, and the human side of edtech onboarding. The companion essay is on the blog.

Recorded live on LinkedIn, 31 January 2025 · original broadcast

CloudCast

5 February 2025 · with Matthew Henshall · 1 h 02 m

Virtual Classrooms

Kirstin Stevens in conversation with Matthew Henshall on virtual classrooms — what live online teaching spaces actually need to feel like classrooms: presence, participation, and the craft of teaching well through a screen.

Recorded live on LinkedIn, 5 February 2025 · original broadcast

CloudCast

13 February 2025 · with Yuekun Li · 1 h 05 m

Virtual Classrooms & Labs — Making Decentralised Education Work

Kirstin Stevens in conversation with Yuekun Li on making decentralised education work in practice — virtual classrooms and labs, hybrid provision, and what it takes for the infrastructure to serve the learner rather than the other way round.

Recorded live on LinkedIn, 13 February 2025 · original broadcast

The full CloudCast series — seven conversations — is being restored here episode by episode. Each recording is preserved exactly as broadcast; the thinking, the pauses and the people are the point.