How can education technology pros help ensure the success of their open source deployments?
- By Natasha Wanchek
- 07/29/10
3 for 3: We asked three top ed tech consultants to each select three web 2.0 tools they believe are ideal for fostering collaboration in teaching and learning. The result is a compilation of technologies that can “do things of value,” as one of our experts says, in the instructional and professional development realms, and in both the traditional and the virtual classroom.
- By Jennifer Demski
- 07/28/10
As they continue to empower teachers with upgraded instructional options, learning management systems have evolved into something whose old name just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Needing every possible edge, students are looking to online solutions to get them ready for college admissions exams.
Three Michigan districts add support to their technology-infused schools with the latest in classroom sound systems.
- By Reinhard Kargl
- 07/27/10
We all pay lip service to the need for educators to be learners as well as teachers, but how often do we really act on it?
- By Geoffrey H. Fletcher
- 07/27/10
Online education Technology provider TH(i)NQ Ed has launched a new collaborative learning network named journ(i)e. TH(i)NQ Ed said journ(i)e offers a unique focus for an online education community, specifically seeking to cultivate engagement among a generation of students for whom using digital technology is practically second nature.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 07/26/10
The cost savings of open source software aren't too bad. But without a focus on what's needed and what will be accepted in any given situation, an OSS implementation might be doomed to failure. We've compiled tips from a dozen expert sources to help K-12 IT directors improve the odds of success for their open source initiatives.
- By Natasha Wanchek
- 07/22/10
Online professional development program PBS TeacherLine has made the conversion to the popular open source learning management system (LMS) Moodle. The organization said it made the move in order to make its program easier for schools to customize in offering it to their educators.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 07/20/10
Blackboard has teamed up with textbook providers McGraw-Hill, Follett, and Barnes & Noble to enhance the availability of educational content in Blackboard Learn, the company's flagship online learning management platform.
- By Evan Tassistro
- 07/19/10