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When and Where to Raise Money
Over the last few months, I have been sharing my thoughts on the key differentiators in this sector and the spectrum of opportunities that the Ed Tech sector brings compared to other sectors in the...
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The (False) Promise of Brain Training Apps
Can the daily use of brain training apps really make us smarter and delay or even prevent health conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease? The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not convinced it can...
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Why Google (Alphabet) should Acquire LinkedIn
Though a not-so-great earnings forecast cost LinkedIn 30% of its stock value the professional network is still one of the most solid companies in the social space. It has 414 million members worldwide,...
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How APIs will Transform Learners and Learning Organizations
As consumers, most of us take for granted that our online experiences and interactions will be seamless. We expect that – in spite of the inexorable increase in data points that we each generate –...
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Reading List: Virtual Reality in Education
Few verticals in edtech have received as much hype lately as the use of virtual reality in education. With the MOOC phenomenon cooling off, or arriving in the reality of having to find a viable...
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Imagine K12 merges with Y Combinator
Yesterday the team of Imagine K12 announced that the edtech accelerator would merge with Y Combinator to form a dedicated edtech vertical. The merger has been in the works for about a year and with...
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How to Acquire Knowledge
Editor’s Note: First appeared on Myelin’s weekly digest. We all acquire knowledge in a similar way. We don’t have different learning styles, right/left brain advantages, photographic memories; nor...
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IK12/YC Merger – Investor Perspective
As a follow-up to our interview with Imagine K12 co-founder Tim Brady on the merger with Y Combinator we reached out to some of our investor contacts for commentary on the merger itself and its...
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Education Startups are Vineyards
The ubiquity and glamour of wine does a good job of hiding it, but vineyards—where the grapes are grown and any wine gets its start—are actually a pretty precarious investment. It isn’t enough to know...
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EdTech Trends: On-Demand Tutoring
Self-paced learning platforms, ranging from tech skills and lifelong learning portals to MOOCs in higher education, have been largely relying on pre-recorded content and asynchronous interaction in...
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The Uberfication of Education is about Phasing out Teachers
The terms “the Uberfication of Education” or “Uber for Tutors” are currently on top of my list when it comes to edtech buzzword bingo. While it surely sounds cool the problem is that most people simply...
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Beware of Candy Management
Editor's Note: First appeared on wojtekskalski.com. Some time ago at Brainly we coined term ‘candy management’ to describe a management style characterised by the following qualities: implicit focus on...
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Livemocha Shutdown – What Went Wrong
The upcoming shutdown of Livemocha comes hardly as a surprise; one could argue that the language learning community has been on life support for almost three years after its acquisition by Rosetta...
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Professionalization of Sports and the Rising Stakes of Education
A High-Stakes Feedback Loop There are twin, parallel forces slowly severing learning from American education. If it seems contradictory that “learning” could somehow be separate from “education” (one...
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EdTech Market Brief India Q1 2016
Although the education and EdTech markets in India are still of nascent nature, it is hard to ignore the passion and appetite of both startup founders and investors alike. EDUKWEST already published...
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HelloTalk Racks Up 3 Million Mobile Language Learners
Sponsored Article The upcoming shutdown of the once leading language learning community Livemocha shows that the technological platform a product is based on is as crucial to the success and survival...
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Online Learning In India – A Note
There is a lot of activity around the Online Learning, MOOC, Hybrid Learning space in India. A number of leading universities have started their own MOOC's (IITBX, IIMB) and are offering open access to...
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Lynda – MOOC Platform in Disguise?
As a keen follower of all things edtech you will likely have noticed that MOOC platforms like Udacity and now Coursera are moving away from classic higher education subjects and increasingly into tech...
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EdTech Market Brief China Q1 2016
While some tech outlets have been reporting on a possible drought for edtech startups due to shrinking investor interest in western markets, Asia appears to be headed in the exact opposite opposite...
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Four Key Factors Driving EdTech Growth in India
At EDUKWEST we have been documenting the rapid and astonishing edtech growth in India over the past four years. Within this short period of time India has managed to become one of the key global edtech...
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