In a guest post Christopher Grant whom you might remember from several interviews (Sclipo, emagister and review:ed) he lays down why user experience is becoming increasingly important in education.
Abril Educacao continued its shopping tour and acquired the Brazilian publisher Maxiprint.
The second guest post of the week came from James Ashenhurst. He shared his thoughts on the future of textbooks, becoming a hybrid between book and application.
GlobalEnglish announced a complete relaunch of its brand along with the launch of three new, communication and collaboration centered products.
Chegg enters the daily deal space with the Chegg Deals platform. Another step towards the goal of becoming the place to go to for students.
The $35 USD tablet effectively became a $50 USD tablet but it is reality as promised. The first 10,000 Aakash devices are going to be shipped to schools.
As a defensive answer to Amazon’s new Kindle line up, German booksellers offer their own e-readers at competitive pricing.
LearnBoost launched the Spanish version of its LMS. The translation has been crowdsourced by the users and more major languages will follow in the weeks ahead.
PointScribe tries to raise money via Kickstarter to port its technology that enables children to learn handwriting and cursive on their own to the iPad.
On Sunday I reflected on the iPad and its importance when teaching special needs students.
In EDUKWEST #74 I had the pleasure to talk with Osman Rashid, Co-Founder and CEO of Kno. As you know, I have been rather critical about Kno from the start and therefore it was really interesting to talk to Osman and get his point of view.
In EDUKWEST #75 I talked with Tim Brady, founding partner at imagine K12. Tim was Yahoo’s third employee right after the two founders and has a tremendous knowledge and track record in the Internet industry. We talked about the incubator and the first class that graduated recently.
Sunday’s Big Think post was about Steve Job’s last “One more thing” and how Siri will replace learning.
And last but not least, After Hours brought you all the interesting news that we could not cover on EDUKWEST.
