Themen

Cloud-based Service

Online Classroom: Shakespeare In Bits

Dublin (IE), May 2012 - MindConnex Learning, the award-winning provider of digital learning solutions for secondary schools, has announced signing up four large virtual schools across North America to its Shakespeare In Bits online subscription service. » MORE

Digital Innovations

Award-Winning Solutions for Education

New York, NY (USA), May 2012 - McGraw-Hill Education has announced that three of its digital solutions have won four awards at this year's annual Software and Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 2012 CODiE Awards in educational technology. » MORE

Hands-on Learning

Education.com Introduces Wonder... in a Box!

Redwood City, CA (USA), May 2012 - Created by Education.com's team of experts and with an emphasis on unplugged play, each Wonder Box helps children develop the skills kindergarten teachers consider most essential, including letter recognition, number sense, and fine motor skills. » MORE

Making a Difference

Literacy-Skills Website Wins Award

Natick, MA (USA), May 2012 - The ComputED Gazette recently named Kurzweil 3000®-firefly by Kurzweil Educational Systems® a winner in their eighteenth annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIE) program. Kurzweil 3000-firefly won in the "Teacher Tools: Literacy-Skills Website" category. » MORE

New App

Colloborative Classroom Learning for iPads

Santa Rosa, CA (USA), April 2012 - Democrasoft, Inc. has announced the worldwide release and immediate availability of its Collaborize Classroom PRO iPad app in Apple's App Store. This special "optimized-for-iPad" app was designed to address the fast-growing adoption of the iPad by students and teachers. » MORE

Learning A-Z

Celebrating Ten Years of Online Teaching Resources

Tucson, AZ (USA), April 2012 - Learning A-Z, a provider of online resources for teachers and students, and a business unit of Cambium Learning® Group, Inc. is marking its ten-year anniversary by celebrating all year long. Each month, Learning A-Z is launching a significant new feature to its websites and holding contests that invite educators to share ideas. » MORE

STEM District

New Educational Initiative for Maths and Sciences

Lancaster, TX (USA), April 2012 - The Texas Instruments (TI) Foundation, Educate Texas, and Lancaster Independent School District (LISD) have announced an initiative to systemically change science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels in the district over the next four years. » MORE

Digital Schools

Transforming Education in Africa

London (UK), April 2012 - In November 2011, the British Council and Microsoft began a five-year education-and-training partnership by launching the African Digital Schools project. Claire Ighodaro CBE, an Independent Director at the British Council shares her thoughts on the need to foster innovative thinking in a fast-paced world. » MORE

Science Education

Win up to € 1,000 for Taking up Good Teaching Practices

Bologna (IT), March 2012 - The STENCIL network invites science education practitioners to implement a new teaching activity inspired by one of the good practices and criteria identified in the STENCIL Annual Report on the State of Innovation in Science Education. » MORE