NetTrekker has released igotta, a virtual workspace for students to organize, analyze, and use information for assignments.
Instructure, the relative unknown that swooped in last December and won learning management system business away from entrenched competitors at the Utah Education Network, has just finished a new round of financing that will help the company scale up its staffing.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/14/11
Oracle this week introduced the latest version of its enterprise visualization solution, AutoVue 20.1. AutoVue enables people within an organization to share document with anybody else in that organization, even if those people don't have the native software to open those types of files.
ConnectYard is bringing its social channel communication functionality into BlackBoard Learn through a Blackboard Building Block.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/12/11
This spring Scholastic will launch This is Teen, an initiative to connect teens to authors and create an online community of readers.
The use of Web 2.0 is increasing in K-12 schools. But, according to a new report, more widespread adoption is being hampered at least in part by teachers' lack of knowledge of how to use the technologies.
Public K-12 school districts have begun shifting their unified communications solutions over to the cloud. In fact, according to new research released this week, a quarter of them either have done so already or are in the process of doing so.
A national project to connect American students with their counterparts in other parts of the world has drawn dozens of consortium partners into the fold.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/31/11
Skype has launched a global community for educators called Skype in the classroom. The free service is focused on connecting teachers from around the world to collaborate on learning activities and share expertise and resources.
Desire2Learn has released Campus Life, a new mobile communications and collaboration tool for education.