Comments on: Christmas Presents from italki

By: Yo

Yo — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:53:00 +0000

Hi Kirsten, I'm a college student doing an independent study/research on italki and the online foreign language market. I'm trying to gather some info on the market side but it seems very little reliable data exist on internet. Could you please inform me of some good sources that I can resort to? It'll be great if you could send info to ykang@bowdoin.edu. I'll really appreciate that!

By: italkiToffler

italkiToffler — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:29:42 +0000

As of now we have the arbitrary expiration date of 6 months. The policy hasn't been formally crystallized as to what happens if the sessions aren't completed. We'll be working on finalizing the policy over the upcoming weeks and we'd love everyone's input.

By: Manish Malik

Manish Malik — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:44:13 +0000

Talking of Google,

One term that can is begining to take meaning is Cloud Learning Environment – examples include Google Apps for Educational Institutions.

I have detailed my recent experiences and that of my students with Google Apps / Cloud Learning Environment here:

2009/12/cloud-learning-environment-what-it-is.html

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:38:44 +0000

Well, next question is of course: is there a deadline for taking the lessons like on Myngle, e.g. what happens if lessons are not taken after 6, 12 months? Will they get invalid, will italki keep the money or split it with the teacher or will there be a refund etc…

By: chinamike

chinamike — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:31:16 +0000

An equal percentage of the package price? Wow! What a teacher friendly thing to do. You should be congratulated for taking this step.

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:13:45 +0000

Thank you for your quick answer Toffler. I knew that we can count on you .

By: italkiToffler

italkiToffler — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:13:06 +0000

Hi Kirsten,
Thanks much for writing this post about the italki updates. Having the ability to export the calendar to Outlook/G-Calendar/iCal would be a great addition. Thanks for the feedback and mentioning the idea of a per week calendar.

As far as when the teacher will be paid: an equal percentage of the package price is transferred to the teacher's account after each session takes place.

Please let me know if there's anything else.

Toffler
Manager of Marketing & PR, italk

By: Kirsten Winkler

Kirsten Winkler — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:08:06 +0000

New Blog Post: More Christmas Presents for teachers, this time from @italki http://bit.ly/53ThNo