Kirsten Winkler

Kirsten Winkler

EDUjournalist, EDUconsultant and EDUpreneur

Covering education 2.0 in blogs and video interviews with movers and shakers since 2009.

One of the fastest growing verticals amongst edtech startups these days is definitely the social layer added on top of existing educational content.  One of the first startups in that […]
$6 million to fund an institution that would be capable to educate an infinite amount of students throughout the world sounds ambitious if not crazy.  Nevertheless Shai Reshef, founder and […]
A lot has been and will be written about Salman Khan. Though he already arrived in the spotlight of mainstream media, he is clearly just at the beginning of his […]
Reading the daily news (probably on a PC or tablet device) one might have the notion that ebooks were on a killing spree, destroying every part of the old media […]
In today’s article I would like to share a video of my old friend Jon Bischke who recently gave a talk on TEDxManhattanBeach about his thoughts on combining the Learning […]
I think it’s about time that we get rid of the idea that cheating is a bad thing per se. Generally speaking, cheating is nothing else than collaboration, something we […]
Aaron G Meyers, a language coach, living and teaching in Istanbul since 2008 shared some interesting thoughts on his blog: 9 Ideas for Reinventing America’s Language Education System.  As Aaron […]