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Digital Education Effort in Nepal
Kathmandu (NP), May 2014 -Students at a school in Kathmandu, Nepal started their school year this week with a new computer lab and technology-literacy program thanks to a multi-group nonprofit partnership. Hands in Outreach, a nonprofit educational sponsorship program for impoverished children in Nepal, is working with Lalitpur Madhyamik Vidyalaya (LMV) schools to build a new elementary school. » MORE
Partner to Support the Use of Digital Content
Washington, DC (USA), May2014 - Blackboard Inc. and Discovery Education have announced a powerful new partnership supporting the integration of digital content into university and community-college courses nationwide. Through the partnership, higher-education faculty and students can now access Discovery Education's dynamic digital media through Blackboard's teaching and learning environment and on their mobile devices. In addition, the two companies are building a K-12 focused integration with plans to launch later this year. » MORE
Online Auditing to Protect Children and Teens
Flemington, NJ (USA), April 2014 - ThirdParent, a company specializing in Internet safety for teens and kids, is relaunching its services with a new tool to help parents protect their children's digital privacy and reputation through online and social-media monitoring. Parents rely on ThirdParent to safeguard their children from dangers like cyberbullies and predators and to protect their reputation with online auditing services that monitor their digital footprint. » MORE
Alliance for Quality Education
Riga (LT), April 2014 - In Latvia, the Latvian Educational and Scientific Workers' Trade Union (LIZDA), together with the Ministry of Education and the national UNESCO committee, has launched an alliance to unite for quality education. » MORE
EI Surveys Teachers' Working Conditions
Brussels (BE), April 2014 - Education International (EI) is launching a worldwide survey on teaching and learning conditions, with the aim of bridging the gap between policy making and the reality of the classroom. The survey will be accessible online until the end of July in more than ten languages and is part of EI's assessment of Education for All. The results will be presented to UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, later this year. » MORE
Learning Resources for Bringing Shakespeare to Life
Dublin (IR), April 2014 - MindConnex Learning is expanding its "Shakespeare In Bits" offering by releasing an update of its successful "Shakespeare In Bits Live!" subscription website with additional new learning resources. These will include quizzes, lesson plans, play texts, and more. The newly updated website is HTML5 based and so is truly cross platform, being accessible from all major devices with a web browser and Internet connection. » MORE
Apex Learning Tutorials Empower Teachers
Seattle, TX (USA), March 2014 - The Round Rock Independent School District in Texas was looking for a solution to empower teachers with the data they needed to provide students with relevant and timely remediation to boost student achievement. The district partnered with Apex Learning, a provider of blended and virtual learning solutions to American schools, to implement the company's Tutorials in six high schools and four middle schools as a component of its math and English language-arts remediation program. » MORE
StudySync and McGraw-Hill Education Collaborate
New York, NY (USA), March 2014 - StudySync and McGraw-Hill Education have announced an exclusive marketing and distribution partnership that will combine StudySync's dynamic digital content and platform for English Language Arts with McGraw-Hill Education's acclaimed instructional resources and sales expertise. As part of the agreement, McGraw-Hill Education will distribute the award-winning StudySync literacy program for Grades 6-12, and the two companies will collaborate to develop new digital products and services for the U.S. educational market. » MORE
K-12 Elearning Scholarship Program
Tampa, FL (USA), February 2014 - With unemployment numbers not improving, many American youth have given up on post-secondary education as a whole, hurting themselves and the future US economy. K Alliance, an eLearning company that offers software video courses, aims to change this trend and has announced that they will be launching a primary and secondary education scholarship program. With an equally disconcerting trend of rising tuition costs, and a fifty percent increase in the average college debt, students nationwide are rethinking whether to further their education. » MORE
Digital Media Library with Blackboard Learn Platform
Charlotte, NC (USA), February 2014 - Baker & Taylor, a premier worldwide distributor of digital and print books and entertainment products, has announced the integration of its Axis 360 digital-media library platform with Blackboard Learn™, Blackboard Inc.'s flagship learning-management system, giving K-12 students and instructors quick access to digital library materials. » MORE
