E-learning company Hurix Systems gets $5 mn from Helion

Seguimos con los procesos de compras….esta vez India uno de los mercados que llaman «emergentes» y que más temprano que tarde será de los dominantes.

Por cierto, me pregunto por qué les cuesta tanto trabajo a los periódicos en línea colocar enlaces…no se han enterado que internet si es algo es hipervínculo? y que los periódicos electrónicos que sigan creyendo que la red es lo mismo que el papel poco a poco serán abandonados por los lectores asiduos de la red… Así que he colocado algunos enlaces a los inicios de la noticia. 😉

This is Helion’s eleventh investment since it announced a $140 million India-focused fund in August 2006

Namitha Jagadeesh

Mumbai: Mumbai-based e-learning and publishing services company Hurix Systems Pvt. Ltd has received second round funding of $5.1 million (Rs20.2 crore) from Bangalore-based venture capital firm Helion Venture Partners. This is Helion’s eleventh investment since it announced a $140 million India-focused fund in August 2006.

Eyeing growth: Helion Venture managing director Kanwaljit Singh.

“Both the e-learning and the publishing services sectors are growing very fast, and Hurix covers both ends of the spectrum,” says Kanwaljit Singh, managing director, Helion Venture Partners. Singh, along with Natarajan Ranganathan, CFO at Helion, will join Hurix’s board. Hurix had received funding of Rs5 crore at the inception stage from Kotak Mahindra Venture Capital Fund, the VC arm of Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd. “The first round was undercapitalized for our current growth rate. The fresh capital will be used to fund our expansion into new markets,” says Subrat Mohanty, CEO, Hurix Systems.(leer más…)

Fuente: [livemint.com]

"The cult of the Amateur" . ¿cómo internet está asesinando / matando/ liquidando nuestra cultura?

Traemos hoy el enlace a un libro de Andrew Keen, titulado «The Cult of Amateur» How Today’s Internet is Killing our culture and Assaulting our Economy. Lo leeremos y opinaremos sobre el tema; …o no.
De momento lo que hacemos siempre enlacitos para leer.

1) Podéis leer el libro en el blog de Andrew Keen, del que tenéis la captura de pantalla a la izquierda.

2) Web 2.0 Is Reminiscent Of Marx: Second-Generation Internet Is Dangerously Seductive: This column was written by Andrew Keen. en CBS news.

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«The ancients were good at resisting seduction. Odysseus fought the seductive song of the Sirens by having his men tie him to the mast of his ship as it sailed past the Siren’s Isle. Socrates was so intent on protecting citizens from the seductive opinions of artists and writers that he outlawed them from his imaginary republic. «

«Just as Marx seduced a generation of European idealists with his fantasy of self-realization in a communist utopia, so the Web 2.0 cult of creative self-realization has seduced everyone in Silicon Valley.»

3) Andrew Keen: Pathetic 2.0 post de 2006, en the people.yes

«In the Web 2.0 world, however, the nightmare is not the scarcity, but the over-abundance of authors. Since everyone will use digital media to express themselves, the only decisive act will be to not mark the paper.»

4) Special Guest Blogger: Andrew Keen en The tech chronicles

«You may have read my recent post about Web 2.0’s resident contrarian Andrew Keen. Well, it got the philosophical Mr. Keen to thinking and he decided to write up something special just for us. If you’re not familiar with him, or his writing, check out his ideas here. And, as always, we’d love to hear your thoughts on this. So, without further ado, let us welcome our special guest blogger this week (applause.)»

5) The anti web 2.0 manifesto (Adorno-for-idiots)en el excelente blog Tilt!.

«Leer a Andrew Keen y su crítica a la Web 2.0 ha sido un extraño ejercicio. Uno, por cierto, algo violento. Porque si leemos los 11 puntos de su manifiesto, uno puede llegar a preguntarse si vale la pena tener un blog, un rss, sacar fotos para subirlas al flickr, asistir a foros virtuales y un largo etcétera. A Andrew Keen, de seguro, le molesta que tú o yo, unos fulanitos cualquiera, podamos si quiera tener acceso a la red.»(leer más…)

Fuente: [ajkeen y otras]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, web 2.0, eLearning, libro, Andrew Keen, The Cult of Amateur

[not] One Billion US Dollars for eLearning Possible

Washington (DC, USA), October 2006 – A bill now before the United States Congress could radically transform learning and training in America. If approved, the DO IT bill could generate as much as one billion dollars to support technology-based learning in the US.

Over an extended period, the U.S. Congress has received at least twelve reports and key statements that all point in the same direction: In order to maintain its global leadership through the 21st century, the US must transform its learning and training in all fields of education. Subsequently, the foundation of a national endowment of learning and training is under way, similar to those for the arts or the sciences. DO IT, the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust, could fund projects such as the digitization of library, museum, and university collections, content development of vocational materials for workforce retraining, as well as lifelong-learning support, to name just a few.(leer más…)

Fuente: [chekpoint]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, blog, web 2.0