Education has its first Incubator: Imagine K12

By taking just a quick look at my schedule for the coming weeks and all the talks with startups in education 2.0, I can feel in an almost palpable sense that there is something happening in education from language learning over math and science to K12, colleges and universities.

But that’s not only from the startup side, investors ranging from Seed over angels to VCs are also getting more and more interested in the space and therefore it absolutely makes sense to launch an incubator like Imagine K12.

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Building a Bottom Up Online Education Marketplace with TinyPay.Me

TinyPay.Me is one of the smartest ideas in e-commerce I have seen in 2010. The service is super easy to use, set up in less than a minute and enables you to sell basically anything you want, receiving payments via PayPal.

At LeWeb in Paris the team launched the latest version of the service which includes the option to set up a marketplace. And here things are getting very interesting.

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eduFire or How to Change Education, NOW

Jon Bischke just announced the following on Twitter:

I admit, I am a bit lost for words. This is the proof that educhange is not only a vision anymore. It is happening. Before I wrap this up in a bigger post, I will have to let it sink a bit.

In the meanwhile please read the whole announcement and the available courses on the eduFire blog.