This category features new ventures in the realms of schooling, lessons, teaching and general knowledge building. In particular these posts showcase startups helping everyone better themselves through knowledge transfer.
Verbling is a web-based platform where individuals can pair up with native speakers to practice speaking new languages on live video. Verbling makes language learning easy by offering a free way to connect instantly with native speakers with timed prompts and conversation-starting topics…. Read More…
My history with hiring university students and recent graduates for technical positions has not been a good one. In my first company (~15 years ago) we tried hiring recent university and technical college graduates for junior developer positions. I was stru… Read More…
Chegg’s digital textbook reader is the “nice guy:” comfortable, treats you right, but doesn’t come with many exciting twists.
“[E-readers] are built for reading purposes, not studying purposes,” said Brent Tworetzky, director of product management for Chegg, in an interv… Read More…
The university announces an interactive online learning platform that rewards official certificates of completion and facilitates peer-to-peer student discussions at no cost…. Read More…
A couple weeks ago we talked about Coursekit, a platform for creating a compelling and social way for professors and students to communicate outside of the classroom. This type of platform fosters communications and technology usage that has been lacking in the realm of academia. Iversity is a new cloud-based higher education course-management platform that merges an online workspace and a social network. … Read More…
There’s no shortage of startups looking to solve the problem of ‘news overload’ on Twitter – from Flipboard’s magazine-style approach to services like News.me that apply a more algorithmic approach… Read More…
The Mac text editor market is rapidly heating up. Hot off the heels of an awesome Espresso update, we’re all anxiously awaiting the arrival of the next Coda, Textmate and even a new Mac-friendly Sublime Text. With such important and revered players each on the verge of their next great achiev… Read More…
Taking an ambitious approach to filtering information online, Small Demons is a new site dedicated to opening up the worlds inside of books. Not just another search engine for what’s inside your favorite novel, Small Demons collects and catalogs the millions of references to real-world and fictiona… Read More…
Creating a compelling and social way for professors and students to communicate outside the classroom has been Blackboard’s service for many years, and it rakes in $400 million per year doing so. Coursekit is offering a software that is a similar “learning management system” but leverages attaining a large audience of students and teachers, instead of relying on wholesale acceptance by large organizations…. Read More…
The key to providing access to and engaging people in fun and fulfilling education is to create shared communities that reward participation…. Read More…