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Linux-Based Education OS Gets New Features

May 23, 2013 02:10 PM

Edubuntu update includes several new packages, including a touch-typing tutor and a mindmapping tool.

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Art And Computer Literacy Overcome Challenges At NYC School

May 22, 2013 12:56 PM

Many of its students are disadvantaged and living in temporary housing, but this New York City school’s computer lab is making strides.

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Education Tech Vendors Launch Apps Contest

May 13, 2013 09:06 AM

Learning management systems (LMS) vendors hope awards program will spur educational apps development.

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Coursera Tests New Textbook Partnerships

May 08, 2013 01:36 PM

Coursera teams with publishers to offer some free textbook content to students enrolled in online classes.

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Travel Stress Quantified Using Big Data

May 06, 2013 12:05 PM

Travel giant CWT uses big data science to examine the productivity costs of stressful business travel.

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Students Want More Mobile Devices In Classroom

May 06, 2013 11:50 AM

Nine in 10 elementary, middle and high school students believe mobile devices will change the way kids learn, Pearson survey finds.

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Coursera Online Hub Offers Teachers Development

May 01, 2013 09:45 AM

Coursera and more than a dozen education partners will offer classes for K-12 teachers starting this summer.

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NewsiT Uses Big Data Tools To Verify Tweets

April 30, 2013 11:02 AM

Journalist and entrepreneur develops analytics platform to give companies confidence when crowd-sourcing news from social media feeds.

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Education Data: Privacy Backlash Begins

April 26, 2013 09:55 AM

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.

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HP Unveils Online 'STEMx' Courses For Teachers

April 18, 2013 04:03 PM

HP Catalyst Academy will offer teachers MOOC-driven "mini-courses" on traditional STEM disciplines, plus other high-tech subjects.

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Education Giant Pearson Adapts To Digital Learning

April 17, 2013 12:30 PM

Pearson, the world's largest educational publisher, recognized older students as online learning harbinger.

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Educational Software Gets Graded

April 16, 2013 11:58 AM

Edu Star platform aims to give teachers, schools and developers empirical rankings of education tech tools, accelerating application innovation and deployment.

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Big Data Profile: D&B's Anthony Scriffignano

April 15, 2013 12:46 PM

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Dropbox In The Classroom: 4 Great Uses

April 03, 2013 09:06 AM

Dropbox cloud-based service does more than basic storage jobs for educators, with no IT help required.

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Google Glass Testing Goes To High School

April 02, 2013 12:48 PM

Meet an Indiana high school teacher who will take part in the Google Glasses beta test. One subject he teaches: innovation.

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Tableau Data Visualization Tool Gets Major Revamp

March 21, 2013 02:33 PM

Tableau updates data visualization tool to add support for mobile editing and APIs for a variety of cloud-based data services.

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Big Data Profile: FICO's Andrew Jennings

March 19, 2013 09:06 AM

FICO's chief analytics officer discusses mobility, machine learning, consumer empowerment and why big data is no savior.

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Educators Share Tech Struggles: From Tablets To Twitter

March 18, 2013 02:20 PM

Educators from around the world shared lessons on how to best utilize mobile, social and other technologies at annual ASCD education conference.

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Tableau Makes Visual Analytics Tool Free For Students

March 08, 2013 02:11 PM

Students enrolled at accredited schools worldwide can use the data-visualization desktop client that usually sells for $2,000.

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Carfax Selects MongoDB To Drive 11 Billion Records

March 08, 2013 10:24 AM

Vehicle-history service switches to open source, NoSQL database with an eye to exploring its massive data set in new ways.

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Ellis Booker

By The Numbers

Base: 417 respondents at organizations using or planning to deploy data analytics, BI or statistical analysis software
Data: InformationWeek 2013 Analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey of 541 business technology professionals, October 2012

What Do You Think?

What's your attitude about SQL analysis on top of Hadoop?

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Research: The Big Data Management Challenge

The challenge of big data is real, but most organizations don't differentiate 'big data' from traditional data, and nearly 90% of respondents to our survey use conventional databases as the primary means of handling data. We'll help you understand what constitutes big data (it's not just size) and the numerous management challenges it poses.

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Ellis Booker

Articles

Linux-Based Education OS Gets New Features

Art And Computer Literacy Overcome Challenges At NYC School

Education Tech Vendors Launch Apps Contest

Coursera Tests New Textbook Partnerships

Travel Stress Quantified Using Big Data

Students Want More Mobile Devices In Classroom

Coursera Online Hub Offers Teachers Development

NewsiT Uses Big Data Tools To Verify Tweets

Education Data: Privacy Backlash Begins

HP Unveils Online 'STEMx' Courses For Teachers

Education Giant Pearson Adapts To Digital Learning

Educational Software Gets Graded

Big Data Profile: D&B's Anthony Scriffignano

Dropbox In The Classroom: 4 Great Uses

Google Glass Testing Goes To High School

Tableau Data Visualization Tool Gets Major Revamp

Big Data Profile: FICO's Andrew Jennings

Educators Share Tech Struggles: From Tablets To Twitter

Tableau Makes Visual Analytics Tool Free For Students

Carfax Selects MongoDB To Drive 11 Billion Records

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