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 whiteboard?
What if you could be physically present on a campus on the other side of the world and talking to your professor before walking into the next class while sitting at home on your computer?
Futuristic you say? Wrong. Take a look at the two videos below and see what is already possible today.
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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 amongst my readers on which platforms / services they have set up a teacher account.
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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 where you are currently in the video but also where other people are who are watching the video at the same time you do.
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In this interview of my EDUKWEST series I talked to Jeffrey Evans, one of the co-founders of MindSnacks which currently launched their iPhone / iPod application for Spanish learners on the iTunes App Store.
This part of the interview was about the typical user of their application, which age they have and if there are issues that the application could be seen as too playful.
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One of the 101 things when building a website that aimed to convert visitors into revenue used to be SEO (Search Engine Optimization). With the rise of Social Media SEO had been declared dead because now everything was “viral” and your service would be recommended by your visitors to their friends which was far more effective than converting traffic coming from search result.
I think, we can state by now that this was, once again, an assumption on what might happen based on some early numbers when everything around Social Media was fresh, shiny and new. But probably the truth is a bit different though, at least in our industry.
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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 form of a software for learning a language.
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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 very useful in an online class environment .
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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.
