CROSSREF:ED #2 Live Online Lessons and Mobile Apps? Learners are not Impressed (Audio)


CROSSREF:ED Audio Podcast

CROSSREF:ED Episode #02

Live Online Lessons and Mobile Apps? Learners are not Impressed

  • recorded: April 10th 2012
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Show Notes

Some data first: in 2011 busuu conducted their survey amongst 16.000 of their users from 150 countries, in 2012 they asked 45.000 members coming from 230 countries. Multiple answers were possible in both surveys.

Both studies vary only very slightly in their results why people learn a language and how much they spent on learning it (close to $1000 on average).

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Kirsten Winkler is the founder and editor of EDUKWEST. She writes about Social Media, Digital Society and Startups at KirstenWinkler.com and the future of learning at Disrupt Education. She is the organizer of the This Week in Startups Paris Meetup, adviser at GrayMatter Foundation and a consultant to startups in education 2.0 at WinklerMedia. You can follow her on Twitter, Facebook or Google+