Shiv Rajendran
After more than a year on the back burner I am happy to relaunch review:ed, a weekly show in which a changing guest and I discuss the top education news of the past week. It started at KirstenWinkler.com but now is an official part of EDUKWEST.
For this relaunch episode I invited my old friend and regular Shiv Rajendran, Director of Operations at Languagelab.com
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Adaptive Learning
- Grockit raised $7 million [02:20]
Source: TechCrunch - Knewton raised $33 million
Source: TechCrunch - Knewton to power Pearson Digital Education [10:30]
Source: TechCrunch - DreamBox Learning raised $11 million [13:50]
Source: EDUKWEST
Academia & Science
- Academia.edu raised $4.5 million [17:20]
Source: EDUKWEST - Late Nite Labs raised $1.1 million [24:25]
Source: TechCrunch - Science Exchange raised $1.5 million
Source: TechCrunch
Free Education
- Khan Academy to change economics of education [32:50]
Source: Big Think - Khan criticism rises
Source: Action-Reaction - $6 million to educate the world [43:00]
Source: Big Think
Public Education
- Edmodo raised $15 million [54:10]
Source: EDUKWEST - MasteryConnect raised $1.1 million [59:50]
Source: EDUKWEST - UAA Slows Down Internet to Combat Piracy [1:02:20]
Source: KTUU
