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“Using social media… is key to online businesses, and it’s key for us as well.” – Jenny Zhu on the role of social media in online education

While we were in Shanghai recently, we spoke with Jenny Zhu, co-founder at OpenLanguage, an online language learning platform. She told us about the particular insights she’s gained from her own experiences working in the adult foreign language education field, how she’s incorporated those insights into her own online venture, and her interpretation of the [...]

As part of our ongoing series of interviews with people making a difference in the education and technology fields, we spoke to Marcel Widarto, creator of the Sight Words Hangman and Sight Words & Spelling with Pixopop apps. He told us about how he moved from programming to developing, how his daughter inspired his apps, and [...]

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As part of our ongoing series of interviews with people making a difference in the education and technology fields, we spoke to Samantha Mennell, education specialist at The Ministry of Letters, the children’s entertainment branch of advertising agency Mother London. She spoke with us about encouraging literacy, the Singing Alphabet app, and what happens when an ad [...]

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As part of our ongoing series of interviews with people making a difference in the education and technology fields, we spoke to Mike Lee, founder of edshelf, a website designed to help teachers find the best technology for their needs. He spoke to us about ed-tech start-ups, the effect of web technologies, and why he [...]

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As part of our ongoing series of interviews with people making a difference in the education and technology fields, we spoke to Josephine Chanter, Head of Communications at the Design Museum in London. She talked to us about how a museum creates instant access to its permanent collection and how being a design museum put [...]

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  As part of our ongoing series of interviews with people making a difference in the education and technology fields, we spoke to Erin Rackelman at Night and Day Studios. She’s the Chief of Business Development and spoke to us about how to grow an app development company. Night and Day Studios develops apps for [...]

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  Penelope Trunk is an entrepreneur and one of the best-known career bloggers out there. She started homeschooling her children last year, and has been sharing her own unique take on the process on her homeschool blog. Penelope spoke with us about how technology impacts homeschooling and how her own strategy – unlimited video games [...]

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  Penelope Trunk is an entrepreneur and one of the best-known career bloggers out there. She started homeschooling her children last year, and has been sharing her own unique take on the process on her homeschool blog. Penelope spoke with us about how technology impacts homeschooling and how her own strategy – unlimited video games [...]

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As part of our ongoing series of interviews with people making a difference in the education and technology fields, we spoke to Adam Bannister, Community Manager at Hojoki. Hojoki is a web-based platform that integrates various web tools into a single stream. Adam spoke to us about the importance of collaboration and how Hojoki is a [...]

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As part of our ongoing series of interviews with people making a difference in the education and technology fields, we spoke to Drew Olbrich, creator of The Fourth Dimension. The Fourth Dimension is an app that explains a complicated math concept using 3D technology in a way that’s garnering rave reviews.  Drew spoke to us about [...]

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