Today is a special day for me as a blogger. I published my first post on my brand new blog called "Disrupt Education" which is part of the Big Think family. Needless to say that I feel truly honored to … Continue reading →

Great news reached me today as MindSnacks, one of my favorite startups in education 2.0, announced its $1.2 million funding round. Not surprisingly, one of the investors is Dave McClure’s 500 Startups fund which already put money in education startups … Continue reading →

In my first article on Big Think, I wrote about the possibilities young language learners are offered by the community model a couple of start-ups are building their business on. Learning a language is a great experience in itself but … Continue reading →

IBM Launches Network of ‘Spoken Web’ Sites In India The New Digital Tribalism Online, People Learn Best from Virtual ‘Helpers’ That Resemble Them Hey Jimmy Wales, What Do You Think of Content Farms? In The Search For More Revenue, Skype … Continue reading →

I am currently collecting a couple of interviews with startups in the flashcard learning sector to answer the question, or at least trying to answer, if flashcards are just a feature or if you can actually build an entire company … Continue reading →

This is a product demo by Robert Gange, co-founder and CEO of Perfect800 taken from our EDUKWEST interview. Perfect800 is an online training application for students who prepare for the Math part of the SAT. The platform offers tips and … Continue reading →

In today’s Monday Roundup we take a look at Skype’s final plans to display advertisements in the client,  Salman Khan’s presentation at TED, Steve Wozniak’s appeal to educators to be brave and use new technology and Mark Ecko’s fight against … Continue reading →

Today Learnable one of the new breed of education startups from down under officially launched its platform with more than 60 courses ranging from Yoga to PHP. In fact, the platform gave visitors access for one or two weeks already … Continue reading →

Several Internet start-ups are claiming that they can teach people to speak one or more foreign languages, without those people ever entering a classroom. By paying the start-up’s requested fee, students can supposedly access a high-tech body of material that … Continue reading →

Shiv Rajendran, Director at Languagelab and a regular on my webcast review:ed shared some exciting news with me today. The London based startup behind the virtual town of English City on Second Life has closed a $1 million funding round. … Continue reading →