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3/26/2015
   

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  • 3 of 10 District IT Leaders Report Full Readiness for Online Assessments

    This year's top priorities among IT leadership in K-12 are assessment readiness, wireless access and mobile learning, in that order. Those are the same priorities as last year, with the difference that wireless beat out mobile learning. Those and a number of other findings surfaced during this year's K-12 IT Leadership Survey Report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a professional association for school and district IT leaders.

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  • Report: CIOs Should Give Cloud Solutions More Consideration

    Cloud solutions have matured enough to be a viable option for many IT projects, but few CIOs are giving them the consideration they may deserve, according to a new survey from Gartner.

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  • Drop User Names To Improve Security, Says Dartmouth Research

    The focus on coming up with unusual passwords for getting into secure sites is probably misplaced, particularly when those passwords are accompanied by user names that are all too guessable. That's what a joint academic and industry research team has come up with after nearly a year of working together on the problem of authentication.

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  • Report: Smartphones To Account for Nearly 4 of 5 Smart Connected Devices by 2019

    The combined market for smartphones, tablets, 2-in-1s and PCs will grow from the 1.8 billion units shipped in 2014 to 2.5 billion units in 2019, with smartphones continuing to take the vast majority of market share by the end of the forecast period, according to a new report from market research firm IDC.

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  • K-12 Digital Curriculum Growing; Print Shrinking

    Curriculum publishers in K-12 have been shifting their product development to digital and away from print, according to new research.

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