Monthly Archives: April 2009

Welcome to the Djungle – Guerillas on eduFire

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

As you might know already: eduFire is famous for using guerilla marketing strategies to spread the word about their platform. With the recent implementation of two little buttons they help you, the teacher, to spread the news about your courses … Continue reading →

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Myngle Parrot shows some Muscles

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Today Myngle made three big announcements. 1) They launched the new Myngle Pro Service. 2) They implemented a new schedule. 2) They joined forces with the Instituto Cervantes. Seems as if the Myngle Parrot shows its new shiny biceps to … Continue reading →

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Use #teachertuesday on Twitter

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

My good friend and colleague Aniya started today a new version of the famous #followfriday on Twitter. But this version is just for teachers and the day is tuesday. So, you already guessed it, it is called #teachertuesday.

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busuu.com Co-Founder selected as Entrepreneur of the Year

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

The busuu.com Co-Founder Bernhard Niesner has been selected as WU Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 by the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. The Award is organized by the University of Economics & Business of Vienna, Austria, the EU’s largest educational institution for business … Continue reading →

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Myngle announces new Pro Service

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Today Myngle.com announced a new Pro Service in their blog. Another step in their new direction of being the quality platform after announcing their own courses and signing a partnership with KLM. This new service will be launched next week.

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Babbel.com launched its first Premium Course

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

The Berlin based Babbel.com just launched its first Premium Course about a week ago. It is called “Spanisch – der leichte Einstieg (Spanish – the easy Start)” and based on the course “Spanisch ganz einfach in 20 Tagen” from Christof … Continue reading →

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WiZiQ’s New Learning Request System

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Yesterday I attended a class of Vikrama Dhiman about the new Learning Request System from WiZiQ, so basically about how to find students on this platform. Although the audio was not very good I think I understood the idea . … Continue reading →

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Online Teachers – Mercenaries of Education

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

This is the first post of a series of thoughts about online learning platforms. I will focus on problems and chances I see for these businesses. In this post I’ll be talking about online teachers. What do they want and … Continue reading →

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The Evolution of Teaching

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

When I am browsing the forums of education platforms I come across one idea between online teachers from time to time. It has something to do with evolution. Basically they say that online teaching has to be radically different from … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on WiZiQ: New Look and Public Paid Classes

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

WiZiQ announced the start for Public Paid Classes in their blog today. They also got themselves a new look so I think it’s time to put them into the spotlight again.

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