education: K-12
Edmodo: Social Collaboration For Teachers
Edmodo's rapidly growing network of teachers, students and education technology publishers are helping it develop into a free learning management...
Hope Battles Fear Over Student Data Integration
Education data might accomplish more to improve learning if we can overcome concerns about its potential misuse.
The Education Lab Inside My House
As the father of virtual school students, I see both the promise and the challenges of online education.
InformationWeek Education: Your New Guide To Higher Education IT
Even if higher education is an industry and calling like no other, it must grow and evolve with its tech-literate clientele. Or it will whither.
Why Tablets Will Kill Smart Boards In Classrooms
Tablet computing opens a whole new world to faculty and students, a world that's within reach financially.
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Coursera Online Hub Offers Teachers Development
May 01, 2013Coursera and more than a dozen education partners will offer classes for K-12 teachers starting this summer.
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U.K. Weighs Ways To Encourage IT Career Path
April 26, 2013Britain can't take advantage of the growing worldwide cybersecurity economic boom unless more young people take up IT as a career.
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Education Data: Privacy Backlash Begins
April 26, 2013Privacy and education experts sound alarms about the movement to capture and analyze more and more student data, even as edu tech companies decry...
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European Students Need Better Tech Training, Study Says
April 23, 2013IT is distributed unevenly across schools, with 20% of secondary students never using computers for school work, reports European Commission.
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HP Unveils Online 'STEMx' Courses For Teachers
April 18, 2013HP Catalyst Academy will offer teachers MOOC-driven "mini-courses" on traditional STEM disciplines, plus other high-tech subjects.
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Educational Software Gets Graded
April 16, 2013Edu Star platform aims to give teachers, schools and developers empirical rankings of education tech tools, accelerating application innovation...
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8 MOOCs Transforming Education
April 10, 2013The early market for massive open online courses (MOOCs) brings more approaches than you might realize. Take a look at 8 game changers.
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Edmodo: Social Collaboration For Teachers
April 09, 2013Edmodo's rapidly growing network of teachers, students and education technology publishers are helping it develop into a free learning management...
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Robotics Competition: Tomorrow's Tech Talent Has Game
April 02, 2013At the FIRST Robotics Competition, teens learn about technology trade-offs, strategy and teamwork. NASA and major tech firms say the contest...
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Robotics Rumble: Teens Fight For Tech Glory
April 02, 2013Go inside a FIRST Robotics regional competition in Ft. Lauderdale, where tomorrow's tech leaders put robot creations to the test.
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