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The Faculty Project offers free College Courses by Top Professors
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NewSchools Venture Fund announces new Seed Fund and first Investments
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English Attack! launches Teachers and Institutions Platform
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review:ed #12 The Textbook Revolution that wasn’t (Audio)
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review:ed #12 The Textbook Revolution that wasn’t
22 January 2012 10:46 PM | No Comments
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The Faculty Project offers free College Courses by Top Professors
26 January 2012 4:00 PM | 1 Comment -
NewSchools Venture Fund announces new Seed Fund and first Investments
25 January 2012 4:53 PM | No Comments -
English Attack! launches Teachers and Institutions Platform
24 January 2012 4:40 PM | No Comments -
Grockit and CourseRank now connect frictionless to the Facebook Timeline
19 January 2012 3:39 PM | No Comments -
Chegg eTextbook Reader launches today – Works on any Device
18 January 2012 4:06 PM | 1 Comment
The Faculty Project offers free College Courses by Top Professors
Classpad – Indian Tablet with Integrated AI to rate Students starting at $140 USD
Kno introduces Performance Data Dashboard and Automated Flashcards
Livemocha launches Scholarships for Budget Cut affected Schools & Colleges
Chegg eTextbook Reader launches today – Works on any Device
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News & Opinion
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The Faculty Project offers free College Courses by Top Professors
The Faculty Project which is built on top of udemy’s infrastructure delivers college courses from leading U.S. professors for free.
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NewSchools Venture Fund announces new Seed Fund and first Investments
NewSchools Venture Fund announced a new early stage fund that will invest $25k to $250k in pre-Series A education technology startups
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English Attack! launches Teachers and Institutions Platform
English Attack! Teachers & Schools platform enables ESL teachers to set up classes, invite students, assign exercises and track performance.
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Grockit and CourseRank now connect frictionless to the Facebook Timeline
Grockit and CourseRank are amongst the first 60 apps announced yesterday that can now connect to the new Facebook Timeline.
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Chegg eTextbook Reader launches today – Works on any Device
In the wake of Apple’s education event the new Chegg eTextbook Reader has been announced. Based on HTML5 the platform works on any device.
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Kick off The Year of the Dragon with MindSnacks Mandarin
Alicia Chang reports on the newly released MindSnacks Mandarin app and the challenges the team needed to master in the creation process.
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Kno introduces Performance Data Dashboard and Automated Flashcards
Kno introduced two new features, Kno Me & Flashcards, to its digital textbook platform which now offers more than 70 interactive features.
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Ars Technica: Apple to announce “GarageBand for Publishing”
According Chris Foresman at Ars Technica Apple is going to announce a self publishing platform for e-books on the January 19th event in New York.
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Livemocha launches Scholarships for Budget Cut affected Schools & Colleges
Livemocha is going to donate $5 million of language learning to U.S. schools in 2012 through free and discounted foreign language services.
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Confirmed: Apple’s January 19th Event in New York will be about Education
We now have the official confirmation from Apple that the event that is going to take place on January 19th in New York is about education.
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AcademicPub adds 22 New Publishers to its Content Library
AcademicPub is an online platform for college professors to create custom print or digital textbooks which cuts down costs for students.
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Academic Earth acquired by Online Marketing Company Ampush Media
Ampush Media, an online marketing company specialized on student recruiting acquired Academic Earth, a free video lecture platform.
Shows
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review:ed #12 The Textbook Revolution that wasn’t
review:ed with Apple Education event, iBook Author EULA, Kno, Chegg, Wolfram Education Portal, Livemocha Scholarships. Guest Dave Schappell.
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review:ed #11 Hackers, Classroom Tech at CES and E-Textbooks
review:ed with Hacking, Classroom Tech, Hewlett Foundation, Virtual Charters, Apple Education Event, AcademicPub, Piazza, WiZIQ & IBM.
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EDUKWEST #88 with Brennan Knotts of KinderTown
KinderTown wants to become the destination site where busy parents go when they’re looking for educational or learning apps for their kids.
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KICKSTART:ED #03 with Satya Murthy & Carmen Tablot of BrainBart
BrainBart wants to become the Netflix of learning with a business model comparable to Mint.com. Available on iOS, Android, Web and Consoles.
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review:ed #10 Tablets, Tablets Everywhere
review:ed with: Coursekit, Apple textbooks, Classpad, Aakash, Google tablet, B&N spinning out Nook and Vi Hart joining Khan Academy.
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EDUKWEST #87 with Jeremy Johnson of 2tor
2tor target the Higher Education market, they partner with graduate programs and provide the institutions with the necessary technology that those are able to bring their teaching online.
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review:ed #9 with Christopher Dawson of ZDNet
review:ed: OER, SOPA, edtech, Moodle, LMS, Android, Tablets, BYOD, Textbook Rentals, Pearson, Khan Academy, MLearning & 21st Century Skills.
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KICKSTART:ED #02 with Jun Axup of Biochemies
Biochemies turned the four bases in the DNA into plush toys. And they even connect via magnets where they naturally hydrogen bond, as well.
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review:ed #8 with Gian Marco Masoni of Einztein
review:ed with SOPA, OER, Mozilla Open Badges, MITx, EdTech Trends 2011 that weren’t, Mobile Learning and the connected TV as education device.
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EDUKWEST #86 with Richard Fielding of PrepMyFuture
PrepMyFuture are a startup on online Math education and have built an online platform in order to prepare for the GMAT standardized test.
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KICKSTART:ED #01 with Andrew Miller of SkyLight
SkyLight connects any phone with an integrated camera to optical devices like telescopes or microscopes turning them into connected devices.
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Why Education Platforms won’t replace the Classroom
Richard Fielding, co-founder of prepmyfuture.com doesn’t believe that education platforms will replace the classroom but complement it.
Misc
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Acadam – Meeting Place for Local Tutors and Students in the U.S and Canada
With Acadam, students can create tutor requests explaining the areas they need help in, getting immediate replies from tutors in their email.
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RPP: Mau Buchler, Creator of Tripppin
Short profile of Mau Buchler, the creator of Tripppin – a video lesson series on real English in real life situations. By George Machlan.
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Application turns Tablet into Braille Writer for Visual Impaired Students
Other than a $6000 Braille writer on the market with fixed keyboard, the app automatically adjusts the keyboard to the writer’s fingers.
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The Boogie Board Rip that Saves – No More Flipping through Endless Pages of Notes
Boogie Board Rip™ LCD Writing Tablet adds the ability to save notes and sketches, and then port them across to your computer as PDFs.
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PointScribe teaches Children Handwriting on Touchscreen Devices
PointScribe teaches children to write through a combination of games, animation and automatic feedback based on the performance.
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Griffin MultiDock lets you Store, Multi-Charge and Sync up to 30 iPads
Griffin MultiDock charges up to 10 iPad devices at once. LEDs indicate charge status for each iPad and it lets you sync your apps & media.
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Wacom introduces All-New Lineup of Bamboo Tablets
The new-line of Wacom Bamboo tablets take the users to the next level with its elegant design and value added software.
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Teagueduino is the LEGO of the Future: Learn to Make
Teagueduino is an open source electronic board & interface allowing you to realize creative ideas without soldering or knowing how to code.
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Pop Out your Ideas and Share them using Popplet
Popplet is a web and iOS based mind-mapping tool to capture ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in realtime.
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Famous Dead Sea Scrolls are now Online
The Israel Museum got some help from Google and together they launched The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls today.
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Wacom Inkling Pen turns Analog Sketchbooks into Digital Tablets
Wacom, the well known manufacturer of graphical tablets is going to sell a digital pen that turns classic sketchbooks into drawing tablets.
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Luidia eBeam turns any flat Surface into an Interactive Whiteboard
Interesting & affordable interactive whiteboard technology, demonstrated in a video by Robert Scoble of Building43.
