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- The United States Department of Education reported recently that it's found some evidence to support the notion that blended learning is more effective than either face to face or online learning by themselves. Further, between online and face to face instruction, online is at least as good and may even have the advantage in terms of improving student achievement and potentially expanding the amount of time (and quality time) students spend learning.
News
- Educational game developer Tabula Digita, maker of the immersive 3D math game DimensionM, has introduced its first educational science, and it's being offered free for use by students in grades 3 through 5.
- A new social learning site has launched, one that's focused on sharing teaching strategies and other ideas surrounding the use of interactive classroom response systems.
- In an effort to give students a "portal" to real-world volunteer service, the federally operated Corporation for National and Community Service has announced a partnership with Microsoft's U.S. Partners in Learning to establish a virtual helpdesk, an online tool aimed at helping tech-savvy students help teachers using technology in the classroom.
- IBM has unveiled cloud-based services for enterprises that can be hosted or run on a customer's premises, or a hybrid of the two.
- Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint is now available, the company announced this week. It's the latest online productivity suite offering from Boston- and Pleasanton, CA-based software-as-a-service provider Zoho.
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