This is a product demo by Matt Messinger, director of learning at StudyBlue during our EDUKWEST interview. As the tagline of the Wisconsin based startup says, StudyBlue wants to mobilize the notes students take during class and therefore become something … Continue reading →

As there is always more happening than I can cover in single blog posts, I will try to write a short roundup on interesting stories and events that did not make it into an own blog post but that are … Continue reading →

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 →

By taking just a quick look at my schedule for the coming weeks and all the talks with startups in education 2.0, I can feel in an almost palpable sense that there is something happening in education from language learning … Continue reading →

In a previous posting on this site some Internet based language learning companies came under criticism. They came under criticism for failing to include a strong educational perspective among the top leadership of the company (the top 3-4 decision makers). … Continue reading →

Ask a VC: Mike Maples Defends Digg’s Honor and the Kno (TCTV) - Some interesting insights on the Kno technology at the end of this interview. What Starbucks Taught Us About Redesigning College Campuses - What can we learn from Starbucks … Continue reading →

In today’s MRU we take a look at the whooping $32 million funding for 2tor, the new recording feature of Busuu, the first episode of Tofugu TV and the future of building blocks developed by a company called Sifteo. 2tor … Continue reading →

This weekend it’s time for the 4th Virtual Round Table Conference. From Friday March 25th to Sunday March 27th Heike Philp and her team Shelly Terrell and Berni Wall will host the marathon event on Second Life and several Adobe … Continue reading →

Over the past months I got in contact with more and more startups in the flashcard learning and spaced repetition vertical. As I don’t believe this to be a mere coincidence, I thought it would be interesting to do a … Continue reading →

It seems as if the latest study from Xplana in which they predict that the tipping point for digital textbooks is as near as 2015 has opened up the wallets of two major publishers for an undisclosed "multi million Dollar" … Continue reading →

Next Monday I will be heading to Paris to take part in a YouTube partner event with the flamboyant title "Devenez une YouTube Star". The event is in partnership with the EICAR, Ecole Internationale de Creation Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation … Continue reading →

Prior to my presentation at the Virtual Round Table Conference I announced that I was planning a Q&A session afterwards. As I am a talkative person (you did not notice that?) I decided to answer questions from the audience already … Continue reading →

In part 2 of my KWestions series with startups in the flashcard learning space I covered a service called Memrise. Memrise is a UK-based startup which has a clear focus on a more scientific approach of helping people to learn, … Continue reading →

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 →