The two european based language learning communities Busuu.com (Spain) and Babbel.com (Germany) are nominated in different categories at the Europas, the european TechCrunch Awards in London.
I will be there, too and hope to get some “insider info” out of those guys. And some free cocktails, of course.
If you want to vote for your favourite platform, [...]

This week Livemocha.com reached the astonishing mark of 3.000.000 members, adding the last 1.000.000 in less than 5 month!
They also added 12 additional languages and are now offering courses in 22 languages. What makes this platform so successful?
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When I opened my feed reader today I was astonished to read the following news: busuu.com won a Silver Lion in Cannes.
What? Are they doing independent movies these days, did I miss something? But then I realized they won it for their famous marketing campaign for the Silbo Gomero.

I did not even knew what an [...]

Ok, today I will try something new. During the development of the workshops and courses for the E-Teachers Academy I got into screen casts as a very nice method to show people directly on their screen what I want to teach them.
So this is the first screencast for my blog. It’s about the new widget [...]

Today I got an email from the “Colonel” introducing the new eduFire “All You Can Eat Learn Menu” at the amazing price of $29!
Jon told me already quite a while ago about it and now I am really interested to see the effects the SuperPass will have on paid lessons.
So let me give you a [...]

Today is a historic day in many ways. There is the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, the 25th anniversary of Tetris and the launch of the Palm Pre Smartphone in the USA.
I am thinking for quite a while now about the potentials that Smartphones have for education. So in honour of the [...]