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Luvo – When a Well-Funded EdTech Startup gets Boarded-Up
If an edtech startup disappears and nobody notices, did it ever exist? Luvo, formerly Flashnotes, seems to have gone into hibernation, or possibly full shutdown. When you are visiting the website...
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Five Technology Trends and their Impact on Education
Since 2009 EDUKWEST has been covering education technology startups from across the globe. On the consumer side the main driver for innovation in the field of online learning in the past few years has...
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When Will Tech Save us from Learning Languages
One week ago I started to learn a new language. My last attempt to broaden my knowledge of the romance languages was some fifteen years ago when I studied Spanish at an adult education center taking...
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Lessonface – EdTech Startup Profile
Name: Lessonface Website: www.lessonface.com Headquarters: New York City, USA Vertical: K-12, Lifelong Learning Tech: Web App Introduce your startup and give a short description of what you are doing....
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The Impact of Augmented Reality in Education
In this first part of our five part series on the impact of technology trends in education, we will take a look at augmented reality. While some are calling it the little brother of virtual reality,...
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Edukasyon.ph – EdTech Startup Profile
Name: Edukasyon.ph Website: www.edukasyon.ph Headquarters: Makati City, Philippines Vertical: K-12, Higher Education, Career Tech: Web App Introduce your startup and give a short description of what...
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The Impact of Virtual Reality in Education
Last week we talked about augmented and mixed reality, a technology that adds virtual and interactive layers to our real world surroundings. This week we go further down the rabbit hole and take a...
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Facebook Multilingual Composer opens to Individuals
With Facebook being the world’s largest social network it is quite evident that a large portion of its users, the author included, consists of non native English speakers. According to the social...
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EdTech Market Brief India Q2 2016
The edtech market in India saw continued growth in the second quarter of 2016. Interest from investors, especially in early stage rounds, was on par with the first quarter. [purchase_link id="12890"...
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EdTech Market Brief China Q2 2016
In 2015 China lead the edtech headlines with huge funding announcements. After a healthy first quarter we saw things cooling down during the second quarter. Are these the first signs of a Chinese...
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With Tinycards Duolingo takes a first step beyond Language Learning
Educational app maker Duolingo launched a stand-alone flashcard learning app this week making it the company’s first step to move beyond language learning. Is Tinycards going to be a success of similar...
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SkillSoniq – EdTech Startup Profile
Name: SkillSoniq Website: www.skillsoniq.com Headquarters: New York City, USA Vertical: Professional Development, Skills Assessment, Lifelong Learning Tech: Web App Introduce your startup and give a...
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The Impact of the Internet of Things in Education
The Internet of Things, or smart technology, covers everyday physical objects that are able to connect to the Internet or other network structures in order to exchange data. According to Gartner over 6...
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Custom Logo Cases – EdTech Startup Profile
Name: Custom Logo Cases Website: www.customlogocases.com Headquarters: Malvern, Australia Vertical: K-12, Higher Education Introduce your startup and give a short description of what you are doing....
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Millionlights – EdTech Startup Profile
Name: Millionlights Website: www.millionlights.org Headquarters: Pune, India Vertical: Professional Development, Higher Education, Lifelong Learning Tech: Web App, Mobile App, TV Introduce your startup...
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Revision Assistant Review
Sponsored by Turnitin Summary: Revision Assistant is a writing curriculum supplement tool that assists learners in their writing process through feedback and actionable comments. All writing prompts...
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Livecoding – EdTech Startup Profile
Name: Livecoding Website: www.livecoding.tv Headquarter: San Francisco, USA Vertical: Professional development, Lifelong learning Tech: Web App Introduce your startup and give a short description of...
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EdTech Market Brief India Q3 2016
In the third quarter interest in early stage edtech startups in India dropped slightly compared to Q1 and Q2. [purchase_link id="13005" text="Purchase" style="button" color="green"] Noteworthy was the...
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Coursera Monthly Subscriptions Channel Lynda and Pluralsight
Summary: Coursera’s introduction of a monthly subscription model for parts of its MOOC platform is not a Netflix like revolution of higher education but a mere adoption of the very successful revenue...
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