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Relive the Glory Days with eduFire Class Recordings
Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by Koichi.
If you’re like me and you wish you had something to watch now that the World Series is over (and you’re also sad that the Seattle Mariners didn’t make it to the playoffs), you’re definitely in luck. We’ve been secretly asking people for permission to take the recordings of their classes and put them up for your viewing pleasure. (more…)
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Looking for a Lead UI/User Experience Designer at eduFire.com
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Koichi.
Do you want to change the world by making learning fun for students and empowering teachers around the world? Are you fanatical about delivering world-class user experiences? Would you like to join a small team where you’ll be the lead UI/UX designer working closely with marketing, engineering and a customer-focused CEO to create the best learning experience possible?
Here’s the kind of thing we’re looking for (plus a little more about ourselves!). (more…)
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Learn From Successful Entrepreneurs for Free
Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Koichi.
We are so excited to present to you the eduFire Business Channel. It’s kind of like our language section or our test prep section except now we’re finally “getting down to business.” Subjects you’ll find here include marketing, entrepreneurship, business development, management, career development, and more! Better yet, to kick things off we’ve partnered with twenty entrepreneurs (and growing) who will share their stories and strategies of success with you. Don’t miss out on their classes. There are several up in the business listings already and more to come soon. Here is a sampling of some of the classes available right now. (more…)
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Bacon Cookies and Goodbyes to our Intern Robyn
Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by Koichi.
Yesterday was the last day for our wonderful intern Robyn. Even more wonderful, she brought in Bacon Maple Chocolate Chip Cookies. I’m pretty sure we’re the ones who are supposed to bring things in (like donuts, as per eduFire tradition goes), but at least we all went out and got sushi later in the day (still not as good as the cookies). Bacon, c’mon!
Robyn did an incredible interny job for us, and we’ll miss her! She’s a hard worker, learned all about social media marketing, became a Facebook marketing hero, helped build our community, did some UI design work, wrote some site content, networked with some San Fran tech stars, and more. That’s not bad for a two month stint (feel free to use this blog post if anyone doesn’t want to give you a job – hey, hire this girl!).
When you go back to that Ivy League school of yours don’t forget about us, study a bit, and keep in touch! Thanks so much for all of your hard work!
P.S. That also might mean we are looking for a Robyn-replacement. You can ask about it via Twitter.
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Finding a class just got easier
Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by Koichi.
eduFire just rolled out a new classes page, and we think you’ll really like it. We’ve added a lot of organizational bits and pieces, cleaned things up, and improved the individual classes pages (and how you create them). Of course, we’d love your continued feedback for future version 2.1. Our community members have been posting their suggestions here. So what new features do you get in Classes 2.0? (more…)
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Cynthia Garcia is our iPhone winner! (plus more opportunities to win)
Posted on 26. Jun, 2009 by Koichi.
Congratulations Cynthia! Out of all the people who have signed up for SuperPass, you were picked at random to receive a $200 Apple gift certificate, just the perfect amount for a fancy new iPhone 3GS! I know everyone at the office is really jealous without our compasses and video recording capabilities. We hope you enjoy it!
But, if you didn’t win something this time there’s still hope. We’ll be giving out another set of prizes on July 4th (easy to remember for everyone in the US. Everyone else? Mark your calendars). Every SuperPass subscriber (including people who subscribed earlier) will be entered in this drawing, so whether you signed up previously or are thinking about it, you can get in on these fabulous prizes.
Win the eduFire Summer Learning Package
Everybody knows what the sun does to your brains (or the snow, if you live in the Southern hemisphere). We definitely want you to keep on learning this summer, so we put together a package worth $100 to help you study. Here’s what you’ll get:
- An eduFire t-shirt
- $25 LearnOutLoud gift certificate
- $50 of 1-on-1 tutoring on eduFire with the tutor of your choice
Check your eduFire inboxes around July 4 to see if you won! Join SuperPass now to be entered (it’s only $1 for your first week, if you want to try it out)!
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Unlimited classes for less than $1 a day
Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by Koichi.
We think that the opportunity to change education is huge. Our ultimate goal, which we pound into ourselves, is to “revolutionize education.” We want to change the way people learn, all over the world, and make it easy and affordable to do so. Today we introduce what we think this is the first step towards achieving that goal: eduFire SuperPass.
We’ve been working on this for a long time now (thank you testers!) and we’re really excited to be able to share this with you today. Unlimited classes for only $29 a month (that’s less than $1 a day!).
World class teachers will become available to anyone anywhere in the world as long as they have an internet connection. Teachers, we believe, will be able to make more money this way too, since they’ll have more students in their classes. More students will have access to the best teachers in the world, to native speakers of the language they want to learn, and to experts in niche subjects unavailable in the places they’re living.
But we need your help. If you want to sign up and try it out for only $1 this first week, then we’d love to hear your feedback on the experience. If you don’t want to sign up, please send me an e-mail telling me what improvements you would need to see before you yourself made the plunge, even if you’d never ever join. Either way, we’d really love to hear your feedback so that we can improve on the overall experience! I appreciate it!
An iPhone 3GS for one lucky subscriber
Apple announced their third generation iPhone, slated to come out on July 19, 2009. We’ll be giving away a $200 Apple gift card to one lucky subscriber on that date. So, if you’d like to get in on the raffle, sign up before then! Of course, the gift card can be used on anything you’d like in the Apple store, and we won’t be paying for the monthly bills that cell phone carriers tend to have with them.
Thank you all so much for your support. We are really looking forward to doing this with you, changing the world one day at a time.
Update: We’ve extended the contest by a few days and will be announcing the winner of the iPhone 3GS on Monday, June 22nd. Good luck!
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World-class UI/UX/Flex/Flash skills? Come change the world with us!
Posted on 10. Jun, 2009 by jon.
Hey all. It’s your friendly neighborhood CEO here. We have one of those really cool “change the world” gigs available right now at eduFire. It’s a contract gig and may turn into a full-time position on the eduFire team. The description of what we’re looking for is below. If this *is* you please drop us a line at jobs at edufire dot com with “Change the World Gig” in the title. And if it’s *not* you then we’ll ask you a favor, please pass this on via email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. We’d appreciate it!
-Jon
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“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” -William Butler Yeats
You…
-Possess a world-class design aesthetic and are fanatical about creating products that are a joy for people to use.
-Have web UI/UX experience and (very importantly) have done UI/UX *applications* in Flex/Flash
-Have expertise in ActionScript, AC3 and FlexBuilder IDE (Bonus points for any of the following: Javascript/CSS/HTML/HAML/RoR/Git)
-Have a portfolio of web apps that we can play with
-Are in the Bay Area *or* have experience doing remote work for clients and possess stellar communication skills
Us…
-Venture-backed company with a mission to change education and impact millions of people for the better
-A small but scrappy and extremely hard-working group of individuals passionate about creating value and having a blast at the same time
-Have a revenue-generating websites with thousands of incredibly passionate users (search Twitter for “edufire” or go to http://www.edufire.com/forums to see what people are saying about us)
-Looking to hire someone to help create the visual representation and user experience for the next-generation platform that people all around the world will use to learn
If you like how this sounds, please take a few minutes and read our blog (http://blog.edufire.com) and manifesto (http://tinyurl.com/5dhgqx) and spend some time on our site. If this resonates with you drop a line with ”Change the World Gig” in the subject line to jobs at edufire dot com. Please send us URLs of your work!
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Who doesn’t like Pirate Badges?
Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by Koichi.
Yum, I love badges. Who doesn’t? We’ve added a few badges to reflect some new features (such as articles and documents), but also added a few “challenge badges” as well. The “challenge badges” should be really difficult to attain, and I think the first person to get one of these (500 classes taught or 1000 classes taken) will be rewarded with a special prize. I wonder how long it will take? Six months? A year? Only time will tell.
Also, you may run into some secret badges while bumping around eduFire. Let us know in the forums if you find any!
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Happy Birthday eduFire! Take a Class on Us
Posted on 28. May, 2009 by Koichi.
Wow. We’re one year old (as in, one year since we came out of beta). Do any of you remember our first baby steps? Well, now it’s time to learn how to run.
We’ve come a really long way in the last year. We added group classes of up to 100 people, introduced the idea board, given you the ability to upload docs / write articles, and so much more. When you look back on it this way, it’s amazing how much has changed!
Take a Class, Get a Class for Free!
To celebrate, we want to give you the opportunity over the next few days to take a group class, then get another one (at equal or lesser value) free. All you have to do is take a class before June 1st (hurry!), send your invoice to koichi@edufire.com, and you’ll get a coupon code to take another class in return!
Thank you all for a wonderful year! We look forward to many more!
