Thoughtfully designed learning environments can help students work together more effectively.
- By Peter C. Lippman
- 02/13/13
Trivantis has released a new version of its e-learning software, which includes a new interface, wizards, and tools.
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative has a complicated name but a simple purpose: to make web searches more useful for students and teachers.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/12/13
Education software company Kno has debuted Advance, a new platform that can convert PDFs and other flat document files into interactive electronic textbooks at no cost.
So teachers are told to use computers (laptops, iPad--it doesn’t matter) in a curriculum that was made for pencil-and-paper learning activities. So teachers are given a Learning Management System that makes it harder for them, rather than easier, to deal with student artifacts. What’s wrong with this picture?!?!
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 02/11/13
M&A Technologies has introduced a compact, mobile workstation that integrates an array of audio-visual tools into an all-in-one unit
- By Sharleen Nelson
- 02/11/13
Imagine a learning environment where students engage core principals using gameplay, solve problems through team-based collaboration, and use gaming systems in place of standardized textbooks. Is our education system ready for that? Do we have a choice?
Bretford's new line, featuring movable furnishing with built-in power access, is designed to foster interaction and collaboration.
Khan Academy has inspired both unconditional love and virulent criticism. But the controversy around the videos has sparked something truly valuable: a national conversation about math instruction and the role of technology, data, and teachers in helping students learn.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/06/13
Schools are using a variety of social media tools to help students connect and work together.