Easter time has been officially extended this year. Yesterday, you had the chance to get one of 30 private beta invites for Blueteach PRO, today you can grab one of three free tickets for LearnBoost’s party at this year’s ISTE … Continue reading →

Delightful to many and inherent part of our lives for long, still unpleasant and somewhat ominous to some, social media has proven itself as nothing that will go away any time soon. I intend to write this article as a … Continue reading →

When I hear of interesting new initiatives with something educational to them I always like to let you know about on KWestions. After just finishing an interesting EDUKWEST with InternMatch I was happy to hear that they continue innovating and … Continue reading →

Fidelis College Raises Money to Actually Support Our Troops - "At a basic level, it will help active duty soldiers get a headstart on college educations." TechCrunch Facebook Launches ‘Send’ Button For More Selective Sharing, Announces 50 Million ‘Groups’ - "Click on … Continue reading →

Are you a language teacher in Europe and do you happen to use social media tools in your curriculum? If this is the case, you can join a competition hosted by the European network "Language Learning and Social Media - … Continue reading →

In this week’s MRU we take a look at three of my favorite services, two of them got acquired and one got some serious traction. Hence we will take a look at Delicious which was sold from Yahoo to the … Continue reading →

About a year ago TeachStreet took a quite radical step and switched the freemium model into premium only for teachers. I amongst others saluted Dave Schappell and the team for this move. Today Dave posted an update on the TeachStreet … Continue reading →

As there have been a couple of smaller updates and news around the three language learning communities recently, I thought I might as well combine them in one blog post to give you a quick overview on the current state … Continue reading →

Bill Gates Takes On Education’s Biggest Bureaucratic Beast With Video Games - "As states scramble to understand new educational standards, Gates eyes an opening for video games." Fast Company YouTube To Go Beyond Cat Videos By Training a New Class … Continue reading →

I’m particularly happy to share the newest EDUKWEST with you all today as it covers a new new trend that is manifesting itself in online education. What we got out as one of the important results of that recent busuu … Continue reading →

I know, I predicted that kind of business model somewhere before, either in one of my posts or in a comment. It was definitely in the discussion string about "Google Translate: The End of the Road for Interpreters?" which then … Continue reading →

This is the second post in my little social media series for beginners and today I would like to share some hints with you on how to build an audience for your personal or your company blog or maybe even … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I nosed into the translator business a little deeper. In my teaching career this has never been an interesting field to me as I basically thought being a native German speaker was simply not sufficient to be a good … Continue reading →

There is always a multitude of reasons why I enjoy talking with him [Koichi], not only that he appeared in one of the very first episodes (EDUKWEST #4) and gave me some credit sort of ex ante the interview concept … Continue reading →

With New App, Ustream Aims To Take Live Streaming On Facebook "To A New Level" - "The app, [...], enables users to opt-in for reminders for upcoming streaming events using Facebook Oauth and receive notifications whenever a certain broadcaster turns on … Continue reading →

Today, I received a pretty interesting email from Udemy, advertising the new "Course of the Week" deal on the platform. It’s the same one Udemy is currently promoting via TeachStreet’s weekly deal called "Social Marketing for Startups". With now TeachStreet … Continue reading →

The language learning community busuu turned three today. Time really flies, so happy birthday to Bernhard, Adrian and the team at busuu! As a side note to the event busuu shared that over 2.5 million people now have signed up … Continue reading →

Just read an interesting article by Greg Kumparak on MobileCrunch. Apparently another forecast by Kirstradamus became reality, this time it is the Teacher Cloud. Today Castle Rock Research Corporation, a publisher of educational resources based in Canada launched its newest product called … Continue reading →

As part two of my series portraying translation businesses on the Internet I did a KWestions with Jani Penttinen of Xiha. You might remember this name from an EDUKWEST we did several months ago but this time it was all … Continue reading →

Curation in any sense is one of the hottest topics on the Internet at the moment. Reaching from curating information that flows in our social stream over news to any other piece of information in our digital life. And we … Continue reading →

In this week’s EDUKWEST I interview Travis Millman, VP of product for EnglishCentral Inc. Although still quite concentrated on the Asian market, I think it’s a nice product worth having a look at from both teacher and student side. EnglishCentral consists … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Cohen, founder and CEO of the smart flashcard platform Brainscape. Last month, I was honored to be interviewed on Kirsten Winkler’s blog as part of her series about web and mobile "flashcard" … Continue reading →

Just a few days ago I first got in touch with Shah Ullah of the GrayMatter Foundation via Twitter and I immediately liked what these young founders are doing. I believe, innovation is not a question of age at all, … Continue reading →

I had the pleasure of interviewing LearnBoost’s founder and CEO Rafael Corrales on how came up with the initial idea and how he and his team have shaped it until it became what we see today: a nicely made gradebook … Continue reading →