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Brick, Mortar, the Cloud and Drones – the Future of the Classroom
What if you could actively participate in a class that takes place on a campus on the other side of the world, not only watching a live stream but actually interacting with the teacher and writing your solution on the … Continue reading
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Tagged anybots, blended learning, classroom, drones, robots, scribblar, whiteboards
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Poll: On which Platforms / Services do you have a Teacher Account?
The idea for this quick poll comes from Darien Brown of YongoPal. Based on the vivid discussion on Vikrama Dhiman’s post on the seven reasons why online education might never take off, Darien suggested that I should poll the teachers … Continue reading
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Tagged accounts, mercenaries, online teachers, platforms, poll, survey
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Seven Reasons Online Learning Platforms Might Never Take Off
Disclaimer: Online Learning Platforms in this post means products that are not affiliated with colleges for the award of degrees/ course credits. Hence, the #epic courses from universities like University of Phoenix do not qualify. However, products like Edufire, for … Continue reading
Predictions of Bill Gates: Information at Your Fingertips 2005
“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world” – Bill Gates If I take a look at today’s tweets of people involved in online education, this sentence has … Continue reading
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Tagged bill gates, information at your fingertips 2005, online education
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Three Years of Resistance – Why I will finally buy an iPhone
Why I will finally buy my first iPhone after three years and how I think FaceTime will change the way we communicate. Continue reading
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Tagged end of telephone, facetime, free calls, ihpone, iphone 4, skype, video calls, voip
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Shocking: YongoPal plans to make Money
YongoPal the start up from Seattle that connects Korean students with native speakers in the US won the UW Business plan competition. Continue reading
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Tagged business plan, conversation lessons, esl, market knowledge, yongopal
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Myngle is bigger than Apple and Facebook – according to Shop Commission
Myngle gave some more details for teachers who want to sell extra content via the Myngle Shop. Apparently Myngle takes a 40% cut, 10% more than Apple or Facebook. Continue reading
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Tagged apple, commission, content creators, facebook, myngle, myngle shop
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Pacman or why Google rules the Internet – and Apple never will
Today Google had another surprise for its users. When you open the www.google.com page you will see the Google logo in form of the good old Pacman game, celebrating its 30th birthday. But that’s not all, it is not only … Continue reading
Back to the Roots: italki launches a new and enhanced version
News from Shanghai. italki took the time to do some spring cleaning on their website and also added a new feature called Notebook which was demanded by their users. So let’s have a look.
