Back in April 2008 I launched my first language teaching related website. After relocating to France and teaching English, German and French at home or in companies I felt, there must be a better way than driving around the French … Continue reading →

Preparing myself for an upcoming interview with one of my all time favorite teacher rockstars Koichi I thought about the strange fact that the most talented educators I have come across in the past three years quit teaching live lessons. … Continue reading →

Lots of teaching platforms have experimented with the idea of "instant lessons". A student comes on the platform and wants to take a lesson right away, clicks on the topic he/she wants to learn and picks a teacher or tutor … Continue reading →

Today Skype officially launched its Skype in the Classroom community. It’s a directory where teachers from around the world can connect with fellows based on mutual criteria such as class size, topic and location. The project has been in beta … Continue reading →

Yesterday YongoPal introduced a new landing page with a giant iPhone, showing some kind of a message stream similar to Twitter direct messages on the screen. The header reads Penpals? Lame. YongoPals? Sweet. If I count correctly this is the … Continue reading →

Video Calls - Breakthrough in Communication for Deaf People On Tuesday I wrote about how video calls as a breakthrough in communication for deaf people. There was an interesting article on the German magazine "Der Spiegel" about how the Internet … Continue reading →

First of all I would like to thank Bernhard Niesner and Adrian Hilti of busuu as well as the team at IE Business School who took the time and made the effort to set up a survey and then shared … Continue reading →

In part three of this mini series about flashcards and the question if they are an actual product or "just" a feature in the framework of a bigger picture I talked with Ali Yildirim, one of the three co-founders of … Continue reading →

As the boss is in Paris today to learn first hand how to get super rich and / or famous on YouTube, I guess it is up to me to share some interesting bits that landed in our inbox last … Continue reading →

I already had a hunch that this would be coming. In a survey TeachStreet did a couple of months ago amongst their teachers, there was a question if they were interested in participating in group buying offers. Today TeachStreet officially … Continue reading →