Category: Education

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.

Codecademy

Codecademy, founded by Zack Sims and Ryan Bubinsky as part of the latest Y Combinator batch, is a totally free, easy-to-use and fun way to learn code. I know, I know – coding can never be fun, but that’s usually because it involves reading books, going through monotonous tutorials and articles or shelling out hard earned money for instructional videos. Codecademy, with its fresh and easy to understand interface, hopes to be the answer for those looking to be the “tech” involved in any part of their entrepreneurial lives…. Read More…

Public library will lend out people as ‘living books’

We’ve seen some innovative initiatives undertaken by libraries in recent months involving iPads, augmented reality and beer. Not until just recently, however, had we come across a library that lends out human beings as well as more traditional media. Sure enough, a new public library soon to open in Surrey, B.C., will do just that as a way to supplement books with local human expertise…. Read More…

EducateNcare

Through the EduCare Global Education Movement, a term developed by this social business, EducateNcare’s mission is to provide online tutoring in a way that is as easy as possible. From the revenue earned through educating American grade school and college students those in disadvantaged countries will be rewarded with educational opportunities. Students of EducateNcare become benefactors to a child in Asia, Africa and Latin America by using their services…. Read More…

British Library iPad App of Classic Books

If you’re a fan of the classics (Frankenstein, Oliver Twist and Robinson Crusoe-to name a few) and are a proud owner of an iPad, then you’ll fully appreciate the digitized text and illustrations that comes with the new British Library app. Providing access to over 30,000 books at $2.99 per month, the subscription will expand to entail over 60,000 titles by the end of the year. … Read More…

MBA Watch

Business students are walking around the globe and growing in numbers amongst us yearly; and now they have a way to connect with each other in order to collaboratively work together to “Beat the GMAT” and find out who they are competing against. In 2005, Stanford undergrad Eric Bahn started Beat the GMAT – a blog detailing his personal preparation for the GMAT, which eventually evolved into a collection of business students (a global community) providing their own suggestions for the greater good of everyone…. Read More…

Funding 4 Learning

There are always funding opportunities for new business ideas, such as Kick Starter or Y Combinator. But what about for those looking to get funding for education, to learn, to become leaders and possibly entrepreneurs – are there any outlets for such a thing? Sure there are scholarships, grants and help from family. However, if those options are not available what outlet do students have to get funding for learning?… Read More…