Feast CEO David Spinks is combining the e-learning model pioneered by education sites like Udemy and Coursera with his experience in building online communities, and he’s applying it all to building on online cooking school. Read more »
Udacity wants to go beyond an English-language audience – and it’s asking its users to help: The e-learning startup has partnered with Amara to add crowdsourced captions to its video assets. Amara previously partnered with TED, Coursera and the Khan Academy for crowdsourced video subtitles. Read more »
After offering its own online course, Power Searching with Google, the search giant is releasing the technology it used to support the class as an open source online learning project. The Course Builder software lets anyone with basic technical expertise to create an online class. Read more »
Kno, a digital textbook startup that has previously focused on the college market, is partnering with publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to bring its interactive textbooks to K-12 students. The textbooks can be rented for $9.99 a year and are available on a range of devices. Read more »
Training at a distance is more hassle than it’s worth, several CEOs have warned. But a senior analyst at consultancy Bersin & Associates disagrees, explaining that the trouble with virtual learning often isn’t distance but materials that don’t take into account how adults learn. Read more »
Codecademy, which teaches users how to program for free with an interactive and social web application, has garnered more than 1 million users in less than five months. We talked to co-founder and CEO Zach Sims about how Codecademy started and where it’s going. Read more »
Chegg, a Santa Clara, Calif.–based startup that made its name in textbook rentals, has made its first piece of software that it says will aid the transition to digital learning for students by offering e-textbooks that act an awful lot like physical textbooks. Read more »
