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Educators Create Learning Playlists at MentorMob U

New learning playlist platform, designed for educators, includes collaborative and social learning tools as well as metrics to gauge resource effectiveness and user progress.

  • By Kanoe Namahoe
  • 06/25/12

VSchoolz Aligning AP Digital Materials with Common Core

A company that provides a platform for helping schools to deliver online learning to their students as part of blended learning programs will be adding meta-data to digital media in the archives of Associated Press for use in classrooms.

  • By Dian Schaffhauser
  • 06/18/12

Gale Offers CLiC Resources for Digital Curriculum Transition

Reference resource publisher Gale has announced it will offer Classroom in Context (CLiC) resources to support the efforts of schools seeking to transition to digital curriculum.

  • By Mike Hohenbrink
  • 06/05/12

Skype in the Classroom Expands Resources with Addition of New Partners

Skype in the Classroom, a free online community providing educational enrichment opportunities for teachers and students, has announced new collaborations with Penguin Group, New York Philharmonic, Peace One Day, Save the Children, and Science Museum, London.

  • By Leila Meyer
  • 05/31/12

Knovation Adds Youngzine Media

Knovation will integrate stories and multimedia on current events from Youngzine into netTrekker Search and icurio.

  • By Tim Sohn
  • 05/23/12

Teaching with OER: 5 Tips for Professional Development Planning

Ed tech professionals offer five tips for approaching professional development that will help smooth the way to adoption of open educational resources.

  • By Bridget McCrea
  • 05/23/12

CTB/McGraw-Hill and BrainPop Join Forces on Instructional Resources

Educational assessment provider CTB/McGraw-Hill is integrating BrainPop's animated educational resources for K-8 students into its Acuity InFormative Assessment solution.

  • By Jim Barthold
  • 05/15/12

MIT, Khan Academy Partner on Instructional Videos

MIT and Khan Academy have partnering on an initiative called MIT+K12. As part of the collaboration, which began July 2011, videos produced by students of the Cambridge, MA-based university will be available through the academy's Web site.

  • By Tim Sohn
  • 05/14/12

Running a School on Open Educational Resources

A public school in Utah is relying on open educational resources for roughly 90 percent of its instructional content. DeLaina Tonks, director, discusses the school's OER strategies and reveals how the innovative institution works through the challenges associated with open content.

  • By Bridget McCrea
  • 05/09/12

OER: Bridge to Success Project To Provide Open Access to Math Fundamentals Education

Open Learning: Bridge to Success (B2S), a project that provides free and open educational resources, has been awarded $750,000 to help students who are struggling with mathematics so they can go on to complete their education.

  • By Leila Meyer
  • 05/01/12

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