iversity, a Berlin-based education startup in the higher education sector announced a $1.6 million funding round. It is offering a free online workspace for educators and students with a variety of tools for organizing and collaboration.
Big Think and The Jack Parker Corporation launched The Floating University which offers a 12 week online video course by renown lecturers from the Ivy League universities Harvard, Yale and Bard.
Edutainment startup English Attack! surpassed 100k registered users and is planning to launch a schools & teachers platform this fall.
15 startups in higher education will have the opportunity to present their ideas at this year’s Educause in October. Michael Staton of Inigral initiated the idea of a Startup Alley.
Pearson launched an API for developers that gives access to three of the publisher’s main content sources, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, FT Press and the Eyewitness Guide to London.
According to a report of Pew Internet, only 29% of the general public thinks that an online degree has the same value compared to a classic degree, the college presidents are divided in their opinion.
As part of the talks on an education reform, US Senator Phil Pavlov, head of the Senate Education Committee, is currently working on a bill that would enable schools to hire teachers through private companies in order to save on high-dollar packages pushed by the teacher unions.
In EDUKWEST #70 I talked to Jeffrey McManus, founder and CEO of CodeLesson. CodeLesson provides hands-on, instructor-led training through its interactive courses with real-world tasks and challenges without ignoring the theoretical basis.
