March 8th, 2013

Flush With $80M, Desire2Learn Buys ‘Anti-Sharepoint For Students’ Platform Wiggio, Its 2nd Acquisition In 2 Months

Desire2Learn

The EdTech space is growing fast — from every angle — talent is starting to cross over from consumer-facing companies, schools are looking to go digital, national policy is changing and student debt is out of control. While there’s a lot of early-stage capital flowing into the market, the follow-on money is much more scarce. To support the growth of the ecosystem and encourage young startups and… → Read More

123sonography launches e-learning platform for physicians

Aside from the plethora of startups targeting web-savvy end-consumers, there’s also little known companies that are equally relevant in their particular niche. And whenever there are entrepreneurs building ideas they often (or ideally) do this out of a desire to scratch a personal itch, as is the case of 123sonography, which provides a comprehensive e-learning experience for physicians and … → Read More

November 27th, 2009

Conferendum lets anybody teach online and get paid

[Germany] How would you like to make money from your expert knowledge? E-Learning is a $53 billion world market that requires lots of technology and therefore is mostly tapped by universities and bigger corporations. But now a small startup from Munich aims to make everyone a distance teacher. Yesterday I ran my first online course using Conferendum, the product of a bootstrapped early-stage… → Read More