When a charter school with a small student body wanted to collect, analyze, and use data in a new way, it did what any feisty little up-start would do--it created its own program. Of course, a little help from a cloud computing powerhouse helped.
Bookshare just celebrated its 10th anniversary as a provider of digital accessible materials to students with print disabilities. More than 190,000 people--mostly students--have access to the cloud-based library that currently has more than 135,000 titles available.
A new report from Gartner suggests that by 2014 users will store more of their data in the cloud than on their personal computers.
Desire2Learn, a provider of enterprise teaching and learning platforms for K-12 and higher education institutions, has signed a four-year Windows Azure global alliance agreement with Microsoft.
Will Google's new privacy policy affect the agreements the company has with K-12 schools? According to Google, the short answer is no, but with a nuance.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/15/12
New technologies like iPads and cloud computing are driving changes in the way students learn and the way teachers educate. But change is about much more than the device, according to Rushton Hurley, executive director of Next Vista for Learning.
The security trends that dominated in K-12 during 2011 will continue to have a wide seat at the table in 2012 too. But a few are approaching a tipping point that may just succeed in bringing them out of the cubicles of IT and into the offices of a broader set of district leaders.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/18/12
As the new year begins, education technology experts look at what's ahead for learners and educators.
One of the most misunderstood concepts in educational technology at the moment is cloud computing. In a two-part series, T.H.E. Journal offers an in-depth guide to help you decide if cloud-based services are right for your school district.
- By Charlene O’Hanlon, Dian Schaffhauser, David Raths, Rama Ramaswami
- 01/04/12
Buffalo Public Schools has selected a new student information system to manage student data.
- By Mike Hohenbrink
- 12/13/11