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 →

Over the past couple of weeks I have become increasingly frustrated with Twitter. I have the feeling that I get less value out of it than maybe 6 months ago. Clearly Twitter lost some of its appeal when Google+ launched. … Continue reading →

If you are following this blog on a regular basis or worked with me on a social media project for your company in the past, you know that one of the corner stones in my strategy has been to use … Continue reading →

No, I haven’t lost my marbles! But at least now I got your attention, I think. As you know, I have pursued a side project in German language learning since April 2008 called Deutsch Happen. On the basis of a … Continue reading →

Fellow edupreneur André Klein of LearnOutLive wrote another interesting post on his blog with the title "5 Reasons Why I Give Away Books For Free" in which he explains his reasoning why he is giving some of his ebooks away … Continue reading →

The week started with some thoughts on the iPad and its growing importance in teaching special needs students. As the Online Education market is constantly growing, it attracted the first fraud rings. Education Elements raised $2.1 million for blended learning … Continue reading →

Yesterday morning I learned that Facebook has apparently acquired Gowalla, one of the location based social networks that compete with Foursquare. While the writing that the startup lost the battle against Foursquare has been on the wall for a while there, some … Continue reading →

In case I did not thank you personally for your birthday wishes on Facebook, Twitter and Skype - Thank you so much for your support! Because of you, may you be a friend, fan, supporter or sponsor I am able … Continue reading →

Audrey Watters wrote an analysis of the current state of business models in education titled "What’s the Future of the Ed-Tech Business (Model)?" on Hack Education that meshes well with my Sunday post on Big Think about Khan Academy and … Continue reading →

Sunday is always a great day for me as it’s probably the day when I have the most time to consume media and educate myself reading all the relevant blogs I love but also write one or the other piece … Continue reading →

SO LO MO (social, local, mobile) was one of the buzzwords this year and even the topic of LeWeb in Paris. Smartphone devices and tablets are evolving rapidly in shorter product cycles and the digerati are always after the next … Continue reading →

It’s the last week of 2011 and therefore the last number of the week for this year as well! Although my new series is still at an early stage., I hope you’re enjoying the number I pick every week to … Continue reading →

As the anniversary of this blog is getting closer, I started looking through the archives as I do every year. Sometimes, I am really surprised to find posts I can’t remember to have written and a lot of them bring … Continue reading →

As I have been pretty busy with working on EDUKWEST up to now, I did not had the time to write down some predictions for 2012. But better late than never! Here is my first look into the future. Salman Khan is … Continue reading →

My second prediction for 2012 is about two of the oldest players in the language learning community space, Palabea and italki. Both disappeared from the main screen about two years ago but none of them ever hit the dead pool … Continue reading →

It was about time for a new KWestions talk, and what better way to start into 2012 than with one of my key issues this year: crowd-funding and its opportunities for education. As some of you might have noticed, we … Continue reading →

Two recent tech stories, one involving Facebook not deleting pictures for three years and the other Path sucking all the contact data of its users on their servers, show once again that posting stuff on the Internet is not as … Continue reading →

OK, let’s go ahead and train the old blogging muscle, shall we? For the last couple of weeks I have been down in the engine room and up on the commando bridge figuring out the route for 2012. That’s why … Continue reading →

Sometimes I find posts that I feel are written for me. The BBC article about the myth of the 8 hour sleep is one of them and there are multiple interesting points to find in it besides the finding that … Continue reading →