Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is teaming up with History this week to present a free, live "Constitution Day" Webinar designed specifically for K-12 schools.
Enterprise television software provider SnapStream Media has upgraded its content management technology for educational users, streamlining it for easier use and giving it greater storage capacity and efficiency for larger school districts and expanded user groups.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 09/10/10
In its never-ending effort to take both academia and modern technology down a peg, Shmoop, publisher of irreverent study aids for several academic subjects, has launched a catalog of 500 self-assessment applications for Android smart phones, as well as more than 500 e-books for use with the Apple iPad.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 09/02/10
Educators are finding flaws in RTI's three-tiered instructional method. So they're adapting it, trying more inclusive strategies that look to address learning deficits before they get too far along.
- By Rama Ramaswami
- 09/01/10
Nature Education has released a new mobile version of Scitable, a free learning tool for high school and post-secondary science.
Educational game developer Tabula Digita has launched the DimensionU Learning System, an expansion of the DimensionM series that now incorporates an all-new gaming universe, DimensionL, focusing on literacy skills.
MBS Service Co. has unveiled Xplana, an education-focused social network that will couple features common to online communities with sharable academic content resources at no cost to users.
- By Evan Tassistro
- 08/03/10
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) is expanding its partnership with Discovery Education, implementing the company's digital content library to all 153 Title I secondary schools in the district.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 07/28/10
Using a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a team of faculty at the University of Arizona in Tucson is building a new Facebook program intended to help middle and high school students learn how to teach themselves.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/20/10
The WorldWide Telescope, an online virtual telescope operated through a partnership between Microsoft Research and NASA, has been expanded with a new, interactive view of Mars and a spherical sky map that Microsoft described as the "largest and highest-quality spherical image of the sky currently available."