Edtech

Gaming interfaces are making their way to the international student recruitment sphere and marketers say they enhance the user experience as well as increase institutions' profiles.

Sheridan College in Canada has launched an app designed to make integration onto the campus easier for international students. To date it's been downloaded by 1,100 international students.

InterHigh, an online high school and sixth form college based in the UK, will begin teaching classes in a second time zone next year in order to attract more students based overseas.

Researchers at Duke University have found that students are using MOOCs to explore new subject areas and complement traditional learning.

Online learning requires new pedagogy and social strategies in order to engage students, according to edtech leaders at this year's EdTech Europe conference in London. Gamification and peer interaction ranked high among solutions discussed at the event.

India’s largest vocational education provider, AISECT, has partnered with online learning platform, ALISON, in a bid to extend its reach in providing skills-based learning to rural and semi-urban populations.

UK-based MOOC platform FutureLearn has broken the record for the biggest single run of an online course, and has also opened up its partnership policy to accommodate more specialised institutions.

Academia United, a new web-based platform allowing students to search, compare and book English language courses, is hoping that within a few years it will become among the top agencies worldwide for student weeks in the English language sector.

Agencies can thrive in the study travel landscape, because they are closer to their client base and digitally agile, said an education strategist at the ALTO NY event. A campaign for an Industry Standard for pricing and product description was launched by agents at the same event.

StudyPortals, the international study search platform, has acquired a significant share of webinar provider Web2Present in a bid to give students a “personal touch” in the decision making process.

Open English, the leading online English-language school in Latin America, this month began rolling out its services targeting the US's growing Hispanic communities.

The US Department of State has hosted its first ever virtual study abroad fair with IIE and CollegeWeekLive, an online platform which provides video conferencing facilities and resources for prospective students.

Referring to itself as a “global marketplace for teaching and learning online”, non-academic MOOC platform Udemy has recently announced that its top 10 instructors have made $17 million in earnings since it launched in 2010, has secured new corporate training partners and sets its sights on global expansion in 2015.

An online 'software-as-service' platform has launched this month that will coach prospective international students through the process of applying to universities in the US, expanding to UK institutions in March.

US-based Duolingo, creator of a popular free smartphone language learning app, has this month launched a free service that aims to make it easier for educational institutions to use the app in a structured learning environment.