Online course provider K12 has added new courses to its school year 2013-2014 catalog and made improvements to some existing courses.
Adaptive learning platform developer Knewton has entered into a partnership with educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to augment their digital K-12 products with an adaptive infrastructure platform that customizes the student learning experience through real-time analytics and recommendations.
- By Sharleen Nelson
- 06/10/13
President Barack Obama has announced the ConnectED initiative to build high-speed digital connections to the country's schools and libraries. The initiative aims to connect 99 percent of students to high-speed Internet within five years.
Students prioritize the use of "a variety of digital learning tools such as mobile devices" over Internet access, according to From Chalkboards to Tablets: The Emergence of the K-12 Learner, a new report from Project Tomorrow.
A private school in England has shifted its backup to a cloud-based service and expects to move all of its operations online within five years.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/06/13
A course that gives high school students a taste of what a career in aeronautics engineering looks like recently had its final exam — and participants passed with "flying colors."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/06/13
Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools in St. Paul, Minnesota has eliminated its paper-based payment system and switched to a financial management structure to handle all school-related fees online.
- By Sharleen Nelson
- 06/05/13
Rather than making do with cloud-computing solutions that weren't created for the education environment, the state of Illinois has developed its own cooperative, education-driven cloud.
Hillsborough County Public Schools has begun implementation of a district-wide wireless local area network to support the growing number of wireless devices in use by students, faculty, and staff.
Comsewogue School District is replacing its student information system with another one to save money and improve its processes.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/04/13