NoRedInk
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| Developer(s) | NoRedInk Corporation |
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| Written in | Ruby, Elm, CoffeeScript |
| Platform | Web application |
| Type | Language education |
| License | Commercial software |
| Website | noredink |
NoRedInk (stylized as noredink) is an online web-based language-learning platform.
History[]
NoRedInk was founded by Jeff Scheur, a high school English teacher at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago.[1] After documenting years of misconceptions that popped up in his students' writing and developing a taxonomy to address them over several years, Scheur posted an advertisement to Craigslist asking for an engineer to help him build an educational platform.[2] Scheur's students voted on the name "NoRedInk."[2]
In mid-February 2012, Scheur shared the first version of NoRedInk with some colleagues at a local Illinois conference. The application grew: in a month there were about 1,500 users on the site. In the next month, there were 15,000 registered users.[2] In September 2012, NoRedInk won the Citi Innovation Challenge, hosted by NBC, netting the company $75,000 in prize money.[3] In January 2013, NoRedInk raised $2 million from a series of investors, including Google Ventures.
References[]
- ^ Sarno, Aaron (26 October 2012). "NoRedInk Helps Improve Grammar and Writing Skills". PR News. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ a b c Taub, Alexander (19 December 2013). "NoRedInk Is Growing At Mach Speed, 100% Of The PK School System Using". Forbes. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ Mader, Jackie (26 September 2012). "Education Nation: Revived Support For Grammar Instruction". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
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