Category Archives: Education 2.0

From Busuu with Love: Language Learning Community adds Russian

Busuu, the language learning community, just launched its seventh language: Russian. This not only enables the already signed up community members to learn a new language but, maybe even more important, it opens Busuu a whole new market for its … Continue reading

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Udemy secures $1 Million USD Seed Round by well-known Angels

Udemy, the Academy of You raised a one million USD seed round led by a line up of well-known Angels and Seed Funds. After the recent launch of Udemy Academic this is the second big news from this energetic young … Continue reading

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Palabea – Phoenix from the Flames?

Last week I had a very interesting talk with Matthias Spanic, the new CEO of Palabea. There has been a radical change of the board and the new team is currently working on a complete reboot of the community. All of … Continue reading

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Best Agers sign up for Social Networks – Great News for Online Education

Yesterday Mashable and ReadWriteWeb published an interesting study of Pew Internet that shows the group aged 55-64 grew by 88% and aged 65 and above even grew 100% in the use of social networks. What does this mean for online … Continue reading

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Sparkeo adds Affiliate Feature to its Player – Needs to work on Distribution

Last week Sparkeo launched a revamped homepage, a brand new player and – drum roll – an affiliate program. This is a feature I have been really waiting for. I am a firm believer of spreading quality educational content through affiliate … Continue reading

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Invideous’ Social Playhead – Social Learning Videos?

I really need to interview these guys! In June, I already wrote a small post about their video monetization feature for videos but this newest feature is also a very interesting one. The Social Playhead of Invideous not only shows … Continue reading

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Myngle partners with SpacedEd and Language Bridge

Myngle announced two new partnerships with language learning providers through its Changes Bulletin recently. The companies are SpacedEd, a social learning platform that offers a mobile learning solution and Language Bridge which is a non memorization, non grammar method in … Continue reading

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Chat on Twitter about Language Learning with Rosetta Stone #RSchat

Just before I was taping my EDUKWEST interview with Thomas Whitby, Co-Initiator of the famous #edchat on Twitter today, I learned that Rosetta Stone is planning to host a Twitter chat about language learning, called #RSchat. The first one is … Continue reading

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Dimdim Version 6 to be released soon

With the upcoming release of the Dimdim 6 webmeeting, subscribers to the service will get access to some interesting new features. The focus of those new features is more towards business meetings but nevertheless some of them could also be … Continue reading

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WiZiQ about to Raise Premium Membership Price to $120?

A couple of days ago I got mail from WiZiQ reminding me that my Premium account for the E-Teachers Academy (which has been set up for me to host the ETCons last year) is about to expire. Normally those emails … Continue reading

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