February 2012 3

Learning Without Frontiers

Not as big or well known as BETT, LWF (originally Handheld Learning) has become a serious thought leadership event in the international edu tech calendar.   LWF this year had speakers ranging from Noam Chomsky (on video) and Lord Puttnam (film director and edu ‘inspirator’) through Ray Kurzweil (‘rightful heir to Thomas Edison’), Mark Surman […]

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2tor (now 2U) breaks new ground in elite online higher education

2tor (or tutor it’s supposed to be pronounced in the US) is a very exciting higher education startup and I was fortunate to have a long chat with Jeremy Johnson, 2tor’s Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer. So why are 2tor so hot? Well partly because one of the founders is  John Katzman (founder of Princeton Review), […]

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BETT 2013 @ ExCel – has Emap gone mad?

Visitors to BETT 2012 have a year to recover, but for exhibitors there is no respite with most having already been offered a ‘deal’ to sign up for 2013 when for the first time BETT will be held at ExCel in Docklands.   Emap’s minions will of course be espousing a myriad of benefits at […]

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