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MRU: More Tablets, More Funding, More Innovation

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Monday RoundUp

The week started with some thoughts on the iPad and its growing importance in teaching special needs students.

As the Online Education market is constantly growing, it attracted the first fraud rings.

Education Elements raised $2.1 million for blended learning solutions.

Stickery raised $325k for math education apps

Udemy raised $3 million from Groupon co-founders for international growth and marketing.

busuu launched a Spanish Business course.

Rosetta Stone is searching a new CEO.

Boogie Board Rip, a robust note taking tablet.

Stanford Student creates Braille Writer app for visual impaired learners.

After Hours #5 with Knewton, Skype, AnyMeeting, AcademicPub, YouTube, BenchPrep, 99designs, Online Education, OpenClass, Steve Wozniak, Siri & more.

Big Think: Text Messages – The Least Common Denominator in the Classroom

iPad and Education – Is it worth the Investment?

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Picture: flickr user bengrey

The thing I love most about being a blogger is the direct engagement with my readers. Getting feedback and thoughts on posts directly is always enlightening and brings up different angles of a story or delivers the basis for an analysis like this one here.

This post is based on a comment in the Edupreneurs Club on Facebook (if you are an edupreneur and did not join our secret circle, what are you waiting for?). Based on my piece about the ShowMe App for iPad Glenn Weidner pointed out that Salman Khan is using a less costly setup to create his famous lessons and that the price tag for an iPad might be too high for most teachers who are looking to contemplate technology in the classroom.

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Pearson & McGraw-Hill make Multi-Million Dollar Investment in Inkling

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It seems as if the latest study from Xplana in which they predict that the tipping point for digital textbooks is as near as 2015 has opened up the wallets of two major publishers for an undisclosed “multi million Dollar” investment.

Inkling, the maker of the iPad application and platform which delivers enhanced and engaging textbooks, leaving the “flat, PDF-based digital textbooks” behind is the beneficiary and it could give the startup a competitive edge over the well funded competitor the Kno.

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R:ED August 8th to August 14th 2010

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  1. CourseSmart For iPad: Free App With 90 Percent Of ‘Core Textbooks’ Available
  2. NOOKstudy: Barnes & Nobles’ free digital foray into the education market lets students read e-textbooks, take fully searchable notes & highlights
  3. Teaching English as a foreign language pays up to £1,500 a month – and you get to see the world
  4. Institute of Education study finds exam performance improves if students concentrate on learning rather than grades
  5. Tech Weekly: Google’s access plans, academic collaboration, innovation
  6. TED and Teaching Ourselves With Technology
  7. Indian Tablet Gets TV Demo But Is Still Hard to Believe
  8. PayPal to Reinvent Micropayments

Hello-Hello launches its Courses on the iPad

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Language learning community Hello-Hello launched its four courses for English, German, Italian and Portuguese learners on the iPad. The apps cost $9.99 USD each and consist of 30 conversational lessons per language.

Together with Babbel Hello-Hello is the only language learning community that offers native applications for Apple products.

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Hello-Hello launches free German and Italian Courses

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Sarah Gontijo, Founder and CEO of Hello-Hello was so kind to provide me with some background information on her language learning community and the recent launch of two new courses for learners of German and Italian.

Hence I think it’s about time to have a first look on the site.

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review:ed Episode #1 with Dave Schappell

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This is the first episode of a new weekly video series called review:ed. As the title says a weekly changing guest from online education and I will review the top news of the past week related to education and technology.

My guest in the first episode was Dave Schappell, Founder and CEO of TeachStreet.

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Babbel takes a Technology Lead in the Race

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Language Learning Community Babbel announced three new features today: its first mobile phone app for iPhones, iPods and iPads, a desktop client for PCs and Macs called Babbel Refresh and the possibility to adapt the learning material.

In a side note we learn that Babbel now has over 700.000 users in more than 200 countries.

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Why not Check in – for Education

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As some of you might have read on Mashable this week, the fifteen year old Parker Liautaud has gone on a journey to the North Pole to unlock the “Last Degree” Foursquare Badge. He is accompanied by David Newman, an experienced Artic traveler and the whole trip is sponsored by General Electric. The main goal besides being the youngest man on the North Pole plus the first one to unlock the Last Degree Badge  is to raise attention on global warming.

I would not be suprised if someone else is going to try to unlock the badge before Parker. And then, who knows if the mobile phone can take the cold?

This whole thing got me thinking about people checking in everywhere and I bet there will be badges for the South Pole, the Mount Everest and the bottom of the Mariana Trench, soon. And don’t forget the first man on Mars.

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authorSTREAM gives away an iPad – Just tweet one Feature

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authorSTREAM, a platform where you can share PowerPoint presentations on the internet and which is part of authorGEN, the company behind WiZiQ, gives away an iPad. Yes, the device everybody is talking about on your Twitter stream since Saturday.

All you have to do to get on the list is to tweet one feature of authorSTREAM like PowerPoint to iPads, Present Live or PowerPoint to YouTube.

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