Posts Tagged education
SimplyLearnt - Buy eLearning Courses for Engineering, Medical and MBA Entrance Tests
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on January 6th, 2010
SimplyLearnt is an online platform that helps students to buy eLearning course materials from prominent educational institutes as well as educators.
The platform has already signed up with some prominent institutes in Delhi and looking to venture in other parts too. For an institute and educator perspective, it gives them a platform to reach to a wider audience. They can even create content online and share across the cyber space.
The concept seems unique as well as scalable. We are sure that the website will get popularity in near times.
Mextr.com - Online Job Aggregation and Profile Matching Platform
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on December 12th, 2009
Mextr is a job aggregation cum profile matching web app that helps you save time while you look for the perfect career opportunities.
The web-app seems to be quite useful as the match making algorithm analyses a candidate’s profile from different perspectives and then only respond with the suitable jobs.
The best part of the website is how well they have depicted what they do and how clear are in their working. By partnering with many brands, they are surely creating a huge ecosystem of professional opportunities.
Voicetap - Connects Knowledge Seekers to Knowledge Experts
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on November 12th, 2009
VoiceTap, an initiative to connect knowledge seekers with industry experts, does sound new and fresh to our mind.
By Embedding mediums such as GTalk and VOIP (in coming times), they are reducing the cost from a regular guy’s perspective to connect with the subject matter experts.
Lately the start-up company has battled the Red Herring Asia, which itself is a great achievement.
On the revenue model idea, the promoters have told that its a Value Added Services for common people and even the corporate can use the platform to help the companies to build brand and establish credibility with the consumers.
SchoolSearch.in - Search and Compare Schools in Your City
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on October 23rd, 2009
Toddlers and Little Kids are far more stressed than they have ever been in past. There is so much competition to get into that elight school that parents actually forget to asses a school’s quality and totally trust the local reference words.
SchoolSearch is one such initiative which will help the parents sitting in their home, to compare various aspects of a school. The first hand reviews by Experts and by the school goers themselves really enhances the level of information available on this platform.
The website is pretty simple to use and looks neat. There is a lot of valuable data that has been collated for this platform by the site’s promoters. We would urge the promoters to work on the performance as the website seems to load slowly.
AcceptEdge Helps Students in College Admissions by Accessing Their Interestes and Capabilites
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on October 1st, 2009
AcceptEdge helps students and their parents through the stressful college admissions process by analyzing a students’ social and academic profiles and personal interests using their forecasting engine named QMS. 
Find Your College Match
Their forecasting engine asks you a series of questions about your academic, family, personal histories, your interests, books you enjoy, and music you like etc.
Afterward, it offers ‘Edge Score’ that tells you a selection of your top college matches, with a percentage indicating just how closely they fit.
The Edge Score is a 0-1000 number, where higher is better. Your Edge Score is a function of everything they are able to detect and analyze about your background.
There’s also some extensive data on each college’s admissions history, with information on the most predictive indicators for admission.
Easily Manage Your Admissions Process
AcceptEdge allows you to track and follow competition among different universities using real-time admissions data.
TeachStreet Connects Students And Teachers
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on July 27th, 2009
TeachStreet is an online community that helps students find local teachers, classes and schools. It even empowers teachers with robust online tools to manage their teaching businesses.
What TeachStreet Offer Students ?
TeachStreet features more than 120,000 classes and instructors, it provides the information that students need to make informed decisions about their learning experiences, including student reviews, teacher recommendations, pricing information, location, teacher training, and more.
The website serves seven metropolitan areas in U.S. including New York City, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Seattle, allows instructors to upload information about classes. Student can look for available classes, read and write reviews on the course and the instructor and also see pricing information, location, and teacher training.
Currently, the site includes a selection of more than 135,000 classes and teachers, across more than 700 subjects and categories.
What TeachStreet Offers to Teachers ?
The teachers can list classes they offer, it allows them to connect with prospective students. The range of classes offered by teachers range from bike maintenance, herpetology to various crafts, yoga, and music lessons.
MeraCareerGuide – Get Informed And Plan Your Career
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on July 11th, 2009
The best part about MereCareerGuide.com is its Course Planner, which in spite of lacking from good navigational aspect, has great potential to help students with their career options.
The website has collated a lot of data on educational institutes across India and can definitely be a guiding platform for beginners.
The site has average looks and navigation. It has quite similar functionalities that all other career sites offer.
VocabSushi - Build Your Vocabulary Through Context From Real World Sentences In Daily News
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on June 23rd, 2009
VocabSushi helps you prepare for standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, and GRE by teaching you vocab words with real world, contextual examples found in the daily news.
VocabSushi - Build Your Vocabulary Through Context of Real World Sentences
The site crawls daily news from around the U.S. to find examples of vocab words to show users context of how a word is used while also seeing the definition of the word.
VocabSushi’s Adaptive Technology Grows With You
To make the most of your time, their system only gives you words that will challenge you, and skips the ones you might already know. And as you learn, they track your progress overall and for every word.
Hear & Download How Words Are Pronounced
They have recorded MP3 pronunciations, definitions and sample sentences for nearly every VocabSushi word. Next to any word you can click the Play icon to hear the word spoken aloud.
TopChalks - Educational Portal: Mentoring, Learning and Audio Visual Study Materials
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on June 3rd, 2009
TopChalks aims to democratize education in India by providing online access to course materials prepared by high profile teachers for academic and entrance examinations.
TopChalks, an offering from Catura BroadBand Systems, is a venture funded company, and is already profiled very well in the mass and print media.
The site owners themselves have a vision that speaks for the quality of the teaching as well as course material. The pricing of the courses are also kept at a bare minimum which will further help in making it a big success in coming times.
Mentorpolis - Online Platform to Connect Mentors and Mentees
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on May 28th, 2009
Mentorpolis.com is an online platform to connect people who are keen to join the Entrepreneurship bandwagon and people who are already established and have once faced similar difficulties.
The platform hosts Forums, Webinars, One2One Meetings & TelCalls which helps mentees get in direct touch with the mentors and learn from their over the years experiences.
Although the website looks decent from a startup perspective, the promoters need to get themselves on AIR using various means such as an association with TV Channels, Radio and other Print Media which will help them get noticed by not so tech savvy mentees.
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