Digital education publisher Shmoop gets funding from Formation 8 to expand to Asia
Shmoop, a digital publisher of educational content founded by a Silicon Valley power couple, has raised a round of funding led by Formation 8. Read more »
Online education… and zombies: AMC turns The Walking Dead into a free online course
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Cable network AMC is teaming up with education technology company Instructure and the University of California at Irvine for a massive open online course based on the popular television series The Walking Dead. Read more at GigaOM »
With new SF studio, online education startup creativeLIVE looks even more like a cable TV channel
Online learning startup creativeLIVE is breaking in its new San Francisco studios with a special broadcast featuring several big names from Silicon Valley. Read more at GigaOM »
Feast brings the online academy model to cooking classes
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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 at GigaOM »
Can publishing giant Wiley take on lynda.com and others with new digital learning site?
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Publishing giant Wiley has launched Digital Classroom, an online marketplace of software training videos and digital books. Read more »
Bookrenter’s Rafter buys HubEdu to help colleges keep content costs down
Rafter, a course materials management platform that grew out of textbook rental site Bookrenter earlier this year, today announced that it had acquired four-month-old startup HubEdu. Read more at GigaOM »
A new way to make six figures on the Web: teaching
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San Fransciso-based online video course startup Udemy today released the salaries of the top 10 instructors on the 2-year-old platform. All of them earned more than $50,000 on their own and the top individual made more than $200,000. Read more at GigaOM »
