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16 May 2013
With $7.5M From Redpoint, Bill Campbell & Others, Curious Launches A Marketplace For Life-Long Learning | TechCrunch
- by Larry Abramson
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- 01.05.2013
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With the growing demand for video-based online education, Curious.com is joining the crowd today with a marketplace that aims help students and teachers connect around a range of subjects, from pipe soldering and salsa dancing to jewelry making and knife sharpening...
This App Teaches Kids To Code By Letting Them Make Their Own Games
- by Costas Vasiliou
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Editor’s NoteThis piece is part of Change Generation, our series on inspiring young entrepreneurs. Read more stories here.A common (if pat) critique of video games is that they stifle rather than inspire creativity in children. Never mind that just the opposite might be true--that young gamers...
Why Professors at San Jose State Won't Use a Harvard Professor's MOOC
- by Costas Vasiliou
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In an open letter, the San Jose professors worry that public higher education will suffer if scholar-student interaction is replaced with videotaped content.
Google Wallet now lets you send money via Gmail, gets an Android API for goods and services
- by Cam Lanier
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At its I/O 2013 conference, Google announced two important features regarding Google Wallet: The first is integration with Gmail so you can pay by sending an email. The second is the ...
Georgia Tech Teams Up With Udacity, AT&T To Offer $6K Master’s Degree In Computer Science, Entirely Online | TechCrunch
- by Cam Lanier
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- 15.05.2013
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If there was any question as to Sebastian Thrun and Udacity's resolve to re-imagine higher education in a more affordable, accessible virtual classroom -- or their ability to actually make any real headway among the Ivory Towers of academia -- we should probably just go ahead and put that to..
What were the most ridiculous startup ideas that eventually became successful?
Michael Wolfe's answer: It is possible to create a good startup with a good idea, but great startups are often the result of ideas that would have seemed ridiculous if you had heard them prior to seeing them working.
Ask yourself, if you were a venture capitalist pitched one of these ideas,...
Solving the skills gap: Udemy, TechCrunch launch online learning platform for the tech world
- by Costas Vasiliou
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CrunchU seeks to fill the "skills gap" for the tech and startup industry.
10 startups that are shaping the future of education
- by Costas Vasiliou
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These ten startups are making big waves in the education space.

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