The latest episode of This Week in Startups was as always packed with interesting callers, two pitches (this time online education start ups Babbleflix and ThereNow) and a great guest.
James Segil, Co-Founder and President of EdgeCast a content delivery network gave great insides about the internet and on how video streaming could lead us to [...]

My good friend and mentor Andrew Warner of Mixergy asked me this question yesterday after his interview with Colin Wright who is, of course, a Digital Nomad.
This is a very interesting question indeed and I think this kind of lifestyle will become increasingly interesting especially for educators. So, here is my take on it.
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I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Thank you all so much for the support and friendship through the past year. My best wishes for you and your families. Take care.
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Last friday I hosted the third edition of the E-Teachers Conference about the Future of Teachers in a Global and Digital World. The panelists were Christopher Grant of Sclipo, Duane Sider of Rosetta Stone, Shiv Rajendran of LanguageLab and Stephan Stephensen of Mingoville.
All of them did great presentations covering various aspects of the changes teachers [...]

As I am not a classic school teacher I would like to cover this topic from a business point of view.
Being an independent language teacher homework is a very effective tool for me and for my students it definitely raises attainment. The reason for this is simple: homework is outsourcing.
Outsourcing works great for the economy [...]

No, this is not another virtual classroom software. So it  is not education 2.0, you might say. Well, not on the first look but I found this product on an education 2.0 website I am currently reviewing for this blog, languagesoutthere.com. It immediately got my attention and I want to share this with you because [...]

I think we can all agree on this definition:
Everything that is invented, build, manufactured is made with a certain purpose in mind. If this thing does not serve the purpose it is broken.
A car is made to bring you from A to B. If the car does not serve this purpose anymore, it is broken.
A [...]

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 where are the main issues right now?
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I recently started a new video lesson series for my free Deutsch Happen project. It’s about the most often used verbs in German and I conjugate them in four different cases.
The interesting part for me is that

those videos receive more views than my older videos
those videos get more comments, too

So I wonder if I still [...]

Today I came across an interesting article in the Time magazin about an experiment that shows that if you doodle during a meeting or presentation you are able to remember more details afterwards.
And that reminded me of an interesting post of Jeff Cobb on his blog Mission to Learn about taking notes. Are you a [...]