As we increasingly discuss whether content itself is still what matters or if it wasn’t really context that does, I have been looking deeper into curation and its opportunities in an educational context over the past few months. Out of … Continue reading →

Livemocha is strengthening its footprint in Latin America. Abril Educacao bought 5.9% of the Seattle-based startup and is planning to build a platform for the rising Brazilian middle class. Babbel is going to expand its mobile offers by acquiring the application … Continue reading →

I did this episode of KWestions in the course of the EDUKWEST interview with Jeffrey McManus on his company CodeLesson and my general interest in the growing startup scene around educating people how to code. As you know, instead of focusing on … Continue reading →

The Ministry of Education of Ontario in Canada is offering free online math help for students grade 7-10 via a platform called Homework Help. All teachers are employed by the state and students connect via live chat and interactive whiteboards. … Continue reading →

How I first heard about Derek Muller, the creator of Veritasium was in the course of his take on education’s current fairhaired boy (not really but let’s use the metaphor), Salman Khan and the Khan Academy. Now, don’t get me … Continue reading →

The open source learning management system (LMS) Moodle launched a mobile app that enables teachers to interact with their students via iPhone. Google+ Hangouts got some really powerful features like recording, Google Docs and screensharing and something similar to a … Continue reading →

I remember a time when my classmates and I were taught handwriting in school and had to practise pages and pages (at least in my memory but as a child everything appears to be a lot) of how to write … Continue reading →

EDUKWEST YouTube launched a dedicated channel for teachers. Here educators can find and share videos with best practice tips, classroom activities and so on. sofatutor, a Berlin-based startup in the online video tutoring space relaunched its website and opened its … Continue reading →

In a guest post Christopher Grant whom you might remember from several interviews (Sclipo, emagister and review:ed) he lays down why user experience is becoming increasingly important in education. Abril Educacao continued its shopping tour and acquired the Brazilian publisher … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I came across a new feature of Disqus, the comment system I have been using on all my blogs since early 2009. At a first glance, I barely noticed the red notification message that now shows up on each … Continue reading →