[Edling] Crowdsourcing Drives Latest Disruptive Tech in Online Language Learning

[Francis Hult]

Forbes



Crowdsourcing Drives Latest Disruptive Tech in Online Language Learning



Elchik and his co-founder Jaime Carbonell, Director of The Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University refined the old-fashioned, in-person  “language exchange”  and gave it a technological engine.  It was apparent to the founders that  the language exchange routine — involving  learning language with a partner by each speaking his or her own native language half the time — was a natural social network application.



Full story:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/avaseave/2015/03/24/crowd-sourcing-drives-latest-disruptive-tech-in-online-language-learning/
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