A few days ago I received an email from Toffler Niemuth of italki.com about their announcement of launching a language tutoring marketplace on their site.
Back in january I already did a brief post about this platform but I think they are a decent alternative to Myngle.com and eduFire.com which are in the same market segment for the asian and indian sector. Therefore, lets have a look what italki offers to teachers and students.
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Sunday, March 8th 2009. A truly historic day for the online education sector. This day will be remembered as the day the first group lesson on Myngle.com took place while on eduFire.com the first participant took part in a lesson from 30.000 feet above the ground!
We are living in great times, no, in important times! Thanks to the internet education can tear down the last barriers and you can be a part of it.
Today Myngle announced that they will launch the possibility of class sessions on their platform. The feature will be available somewhere around the 2nd of march according to their announcement.
This makes Myngle the third provider of group lessons on the internet next to WiZiQ and eduFire.
I took some days off and headed down south to Bordeaux just to relax a bit and sort some thoughts I came up with in the past couple of weeks.
There will be a recap of my trip in my private blog “My Brittany“. If you are interested how I spent my free time, you can have a look over there 
. And there will be a professionel recap of my decisions in this blog here, of course.
Last sunday eduFire.com was hosting the second eduConference under the headline “Turning Teachers into Rockstars”. This great and inspirational meeting was followed up by a very interesting and even a bit frightening presentation of Jon Bischke, CEO of eduFire.com who talked about “Connected Consumership“.
Today, sunday 8th of february I will attend the second eduConference on edufire.com.
Infact, I received an email from Koichi friday night, asking me if I could do a presentation there. And as I love presentations and conferences, I said “count me in”.
Now I am working on the slides and I really hope that I will finish them on time. Continue reading
Yesterday I was testing the brand new out of Beta 1:M (one to many) classes and I have to say: it was totally worth waiting for it.
First I was teaching a free German class to test the teacher’s view and after that I was attending a class with Jon Bischke, CEO of EduFire.com. Continue reading
After a long beta test with its community EduFire.com officially launched its new classes system last tuesday.
The approach is quite unique. The only website that can offer the teacher paid classes with more than one student is WiZiQ.com. The problem with WiZiQ.com is though that the scheduling system is a bit tricky.
What are the new possibilities for us teachers? Continue reading
