About Author: Kirsten Winkler

Website: http://www.edukwest.com
Description: Kirsten Winkler is an Online Education Blogger on and the Founder of the E-Teachers Academy.

Posts by Kirsten Winkler

Kno launches Textbooks for iPad

Posted on June 5, 2011
After the decision to outsource the hardware manufacturing of the company and focus on software only, Kno launched its "Textbooks" app for the iPad.
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OneAmerica chooses Livemocha for Project to teach Immigrants English

Posted on June 5, 2011
OneAmerica runs a 12 week project for immigrants to find new ways to teach them English. 1st session is in partnership with Livemocha, the 2nd with U.S.A. Learns.
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Rosetta Stone launches TOTALe Mobile Companion for iPad

Posted on June 4, 2011
Rosetta Stone entered the App Store with its version and slowly but surely people begin to notice that Rosetta Stone is not all about CDs anymore.
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EDUKWEST #63 with Brad Patterson of SnaPanda

Posted on June 3, 2011
EDUKWEST on tour has always had a special feel to it and as much as I like connecting with great start-up people via Skype, I have to say that I...
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EDUKWEST #62 with Rafael Corrales of LearnBoost

Posted on May 31, 2011
This new episode of EDUKWEST will once again be very interesting for the part of my audience who are actively teaching and thus have to manage students and classes and...
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EDUKWEST #61 with Travis Millman of EnglishCentral

Posted on May 25, 2011
In this week’s EDUKWEST I interview Travis Millman, VP of product for EnglishCentral Inc. Although still quite concentrated on the Asian market, I think it’s a nice product worth having a...
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EDUKWEST #60 with Koichi Ko of TextFugu

Posted on May 15, 2011
I saved up episode 60 for Koichi Ko, the destroyer of the Japanese language learning industry and I’m particularly happy that we eventually managed to sync both our schedules and...
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EDUKWEST #59 with Jesse Maddox of TripLingo

Posted on May 8, 2011
I’m particularly happy to share the newest EDUKWEST with you all today as it covers a new new trend that is manifesting itself in online education. What we got out...
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EDUKWEST #58 with Armin Hopp of digital publishing

Posted on May 1, 2011
As you know EDUKWEST is all about putting start-ups in the online education space in the spotlight and following them on their way to (hopefully) great success. I however sometimes mix...
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EDUKWEST #57 with Nathan Parcells of InternMatch

Posted on April 20, 2011
With MindSnacks and YongoPal I had already portrayed two interesting education start-ups being part of Dave McClure’s 500Startups family. As the guys do good networking with each other, I heard...
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