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Review: EduFire 1:M One to Many Classes

busuu.com now connects to facebook
Astonishingly there are not so many educational companies which have yet implemented facebook  in their overall strategy. According to Mashable the social network is adding 500.000 new users each day and has today about 325 million members. So it seems like a good plan to get yourself represented on facebook, right? Of course, most of the [...]

Mingleverse – The Missing Link?
Last week I had the same experience anthropologists must have when they might have found a new species that fills a gap in the family tree of humans. The missing link in online education has been the seamless group talk right now. You can have great 1o1 teaching over Skype and decent lectures in various online [...]

I am Online = Free Chat – Skype, Yahoo, MSN and the Orcs
In my last post about the “I am Online” feature I mentioned at the end that I think the status of being online equals the fact that I am available for a free chat. This has something to do with the Lord of the Rings, kind of. Why Lord of the Rings? Well, because J.R.R. Tolkien did [...]

#Edchat Founders at the #140conf
As you all might know, @web20classroom, @tomwhitby and @shellterrell the three founders of #Edchat where characters on the #140conf in Los Angeles. Here are three short interviews with them after the conference. I think it is great that they were part of the panel and represented education in the social media landscape. Looking forward to next year [...]

Interview with Duane Sider, Director of Learning at Rosetta Stone about TOTALe
Yesterday I had the delight to talk to Duane Sider, Director of Learning at Rosetta Stone for my first interview of this blog. I want to offer a series of interviews with the “grown up” companies in the online education sector in the coming months to share their point of view and ideas of the [...]