Start-ups secure solid 1-minute pitches at Inspire Showcase
An intimate crowd of approximately 50 people gathered Wednesday evening at the Inspire Business Center in Chicago’s West Loop for Inspire’s monthly start-up showcase. Amongst the crowd there were some returners and some new faces. Marina Dedes, vice president of venture capital firm Lightbank, was the keynote speaker and shared tips to entrepreneurs about [...]... Read More
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2U Partners With Semester Online To Offer For-Credit Courses At Washington University In St. Louis
BY: Kathryn HoughWashington University in St. Louis is gearing up for a big influx of students in 2013, but the school won’t have to expand campus resources. Instead, students will be able to take for-credit classes at Washington University online thanks to a new program that is launching in 2013 called Semester Online.
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Arch Grants Scores Additional Funding For Education Reform Startups
BY: Kathryn HoughThanks to a new commitment to fund two educational reform-focused Arch Grants by the John C. and Mary Kaye Fort Family Fund and St. Louis Regional Business Council (RBC), St. Louis is one step closer to becoming America’s thought leader on the future of education.
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Coding Education Platform Treehouse Gets A Book Deal: Comment On This Post To Win A Copy Of HTML5 Foundations
BY: Kathryn HoughCoding education platform Treehouse is the first in the race to revolutionize web development education to get a traditional book deal. The series will be released by Wiley Publishing, starting with HTML5 Foundations by Matt West soon to be followed by CSS3 and iOS6 books. The team at Treehouse has generously decided to offer a digital copy of HTML5 Foundations for free to the first 10 people who comment on this post.
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Onshore Outsourcing Fights The “Walmart Effect” In Rural America
BY: Kathryn HoughOnshore Outsourcing’s mission is to prevent foreign outsourcing by encouraging companies to outsource jobs to rural areas where jobs are needed the most.
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Focus On Teaching And Technology Conference Welcomes Apple Executive To St. Louis
BY: Kathryn HoughThe University of Missouri–St. Louis will welcome Apple executive Joel Davies as part of the Focus On Teaching and Technology Conference.
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The Prospects Of Digital Learning
BY: Jeb OryThe concept of digital learning is taking over political discussions about education, and startups are rushing to fill the gap.
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Edthena Offers Educators Targeted Teaching Feedback Online
BY: Corey CummingsEducation startup Edthena is looking to eliminate the traditional complications of helping teachers improve their craft by providing an online platform where educators can submit videos of themselves teaching and get targeted, appropriate feedback in time with their lessons.
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Sebastian Thrun: Online University Udacity “Is An Experiment”
BY: Jon ChristianSebastian Thrun’s idea is to change the “pedagogical approach†in education by placing the emphasis on students solving problems themselves.
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Google-Backed Incubator To Build First Kenyan Supercomputing Cluster
BY: Jon ChristianA Google-backed innovation community in Nairobi, Kenya, plans to build the first African supercomputer outside of South Africa, which backers hope will be a step toward a more self-sufficient technological infrastructure and community in the region.
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Facebook Returns To Its College Roots, Rolls Out Groups For Schools
BY: Jason RowleyLast night I received a push notification from a classmate at UChicago to join the official UChicago Facebook Group. Requiring a valid uchicago.edu email address to join, the group, like the groups Facebook is rolling out at colleges around the world, is reminiscent of the social networking giant’s early, college-only closed-door roots. Facebook announced Groups [...]
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Hoot.Me: Switching Facebook Into Study Mode
BY: Smith SchwartzFacebook application that lets students, teachers and tutors interact through social media to get homework finished better and faster.
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What Does Pathwright Risk Losing By Differentiating Itself From The LMS Herd?
BY: Jon ChristianPathwright’s intended market is entrepreneurial would-be educators, not affiliated with a college or university, who feel they have material worth sharing.
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Penny Pinched: Beyond Bootstrapping
Bigger Isn’t Always Better In Terms Of Employer 
Race To The Bottom #entrepreneurfail - COMIC