Examville (www.examville.com), an online education marketplace, launches its e-commerce personalized teacher/tutor storefront pages. Designed to connected educators and students online, the personalized profile pages are likened to those on sites like eBay and Amazon, which smaller sellers to establish their business. On Examville, teachers can now set up their own online education store with a unique URL at no charge. From that page, they can connect with students/parents worldwide and offer virtual classes, online tutoring and instruction materials (for a fee). As an open platform, Examville profile pages can also be leveraged by third-party service providers, including test prep and tutoring companies, publishers, corporations among others.
Ivy Chang on 14 May 14Dubbed the Twitter Neighborhood Nest, it will target those who are in San Francisco and will also see Twitter partner with the Compass Family Services, and also donate $1 million over the course of the next few years. So far they have managed to donate 81 computers where tech support will be provided by Compass. As far as education is concerned, Twitter employees will be contributing to the project on their free time and will teach students basic computer skills as well as to seek jobs online.
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