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Featured Reports
Linux-Based Education OS Gets New Features
May 23, 2013
Edubuntu update includes several new packages, including a touch-typing tutor and a mindmapping tool.
Art And Computer Literacy Overcome Challenges At NYC School
May 22, 2013
Many of its students are disadvantaged and living in temporary housing, but this New York City school’s computer lab is making strides.
Education Tech Vendors Launch Apps Contest
May 13, 2013
Learning management systems (LMS) vendors hope awards program will spur educational apps development.
Coursera Tests New Textbook Partnerships
May 08, 2013
Coursera teams with publishers to offer some free textbook content to students enrolled in online classes.
Travel Stress Quantified Using Big Data
May 06, 2013
Travel giant CWT uses big data science to examine the productivity costs of stressful business travel.
Students Want More Mobile Devices In Classroom
May 06, 2013
Nine in 10 elementary, middle and high school students believe mobile devices will change the way kids learn, Pearson survey finds.
Coursera Online Hub Offers Teachers Development
May 01, 2013
Coursera and more than a dozen education partners will offer classes for K-12 teachers starting this summer.
NewsiT Uses Big Data Tools To Verify Tweets
April 30, 2013
Journalist and entrepreneur develops analytics platform to give companies confidence when crowd-sourcing news from social media feeds.
Education Data: Privacy Backlash Begins
April 26, 2013
Privacy and education experts sound alarms about the movement to capture and analyze more and more student data, even as edu tech companies decry ulterior motives.
HP Unveils Online 'STEMx' Courses For Teachers
April 18, 2013
HP Catalyst Academy will offer teachers MOOC-driven "mini-courses" on traditional STEM disciplines, plus other high-tech subjects.
Education Giant Pearson Adapts To Digital Learning
April 17, 2013
Pearson, the world's largest educational publisher, recognized older students as online learning harbinger.
Educational Software Gets Graded
April 16, 2013
Edu Star platform aims to give teachers, schools and developers empirical rankings of education tech tools, accelerating application innovation and deployment.
Big Data Profile: D&B's Anthony Scriffignano
April 15, 2013
Dropbox In The Classroom: 4 Great Uses
April 03, 2013
Dropbox cloud-based service does more than basic storage jobs for educators, with no IT help required.
Google Glass Testing Goes To High School
April 02, 2013
Meet an Indiana high school teacher who will take part in the Google Glasses beta test. One subject he teaches: innovation.
Tableau Data Visualization Tool Gets Major Revamp
March 21, 2013
Tableau updates data visualization tool to add support for mobile editing and APIs for a variety of cloud-based data services.
Big Data Profile: FICO's Andrew Jennings
March 19, 2013
FICO's chief analytics officer discusses mobility, machine learning, consumer empowerment and why big data is no savior.
Educators Share Tech Struggles: From Tablets To Twitter
March 18, 2013
Educators from around the world shared lessons on how to best utilize mobile, social and other technologies at annual ASCD education conference.
Tableau Makes Visual Analytics Tool Free For Students
March 08, 2013
Students enrolled at accredited schools worldwide can use the data-visualization desktop client that usually sells for $2,000.
Carfax Selects MongoDB To Drive 11 Billion Records
March 08, 2013
Vehicle-history service switches to open source, NoSQL database with an eye to exploring its massive data set in new ways.
E-Textbook Pilot Puts College Books In Cloud
March 06, 2013
Nationwide e-textbook pilot returns for second year to continue testing how post-secondary institutions might switch from printed learning materials to digital.
Indiana University Models E-Textbook Success
March 04, 2013
IU's e-text program, with nearly 10,000 students using digital textbooks, offers lessons learned for other universities.
Who Owns Student Data?
February 27, 2013
As data collection and data analysis in education grow, so do worries about student and teacher privacy. Is there enough protection?
Tablets Rock On: Education Tech Through The Ages
February 26, 2013
From tablets to Google Glasses, education technology has a colorful history. Take a look back and a peek forward.
Big Data Myths Persist
February 21, 2013
Big data hype has reached a level where some customers are actually avoiding labeling projects as big data, Tibco executives say.