| Making a Difference |
| Literacy-Skills Website Wins Award |
 Natick, MA (USA), May 2012 - The ComputED Gazette recently named Kurzweil 3000®-firefly by Kurzweil Educational Systems® a winner in their eighteenth annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIE) program. Kurzweil 3000-firefly won in the "Teacher Tools: Literacy-Skills Website" category. [more...] |
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| Hands-on Learning |
| Education.com Introduces Wonder... in a Box! |
| Redwood City, CA (USA), May 2012 - Created by Education.com's team of experts and with an emphasis on unplugged play, each Wonder Box helps children develop the skills kindergarten teachers consider most essential, including letter recognition, number sense, and fine motor skills. [more...] |
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| Learning A-Z |
| Celebrating Ten Years of Online Teaching Resources |
| Tucson, AZ (USA), April 2012 - Learning A-Z, a provider of online resources for teachers and students, and a business unit of Cambium Learning® Group, Inc. is marking its ten-year anniversary by celebrating all year long. Each month, Learning A-Z is launching a significant new feature to its websites and holding contests that invite educators to share ideas. [more...] |
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| Digital Schools |
| Transforming Education in Africa |
| London (UK), April 2012 - In November 2011, the British Council and Microsoft began a five-year education-and-training partnership by launching the African Digital Schools project. Claire Ighodaro CBE, an Independent Director at the British Council shares her thoughts on the need to foster innovative thinking in a fast-paced world. [more...] |
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| Science Education |
| Win up to € 1,000 for Taking up Good Teaching Practices |
 Bologna (IT), March 2012 - The STENCIL network invites science education practitioners to implement a new teaching activity inspired by one of the good practices and criteria identified in the STENCIL Annual Report on the State of Innovation in Science Education. [more...] |
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| eLearning for Kids |
| Instructional Design Volunteers Wanted |
 Ardmore, PA (USA), March 2012 - Do you have thirty to forty hours over a three-month period to volunteer your instructional-design skills? If so, eLearning for Kids, a global non-profit foundation, needs your help. The goal is to develop 150+ lessons in 2012 for Math World. [more...] |
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| ICT in Education |
| UNESCO eLearning Tools |
 Bangkok (TH), March 2012 – The UNESCO office in Bangkok has released a collection of eLearning tools aimed at high school students, university students, educators, and teacher trainers as part of UNESCO's ICT in Education Teacher Training Series. [more...] |
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| New Release |
| Major Update for Blackboard Learn 9.1 |
| Washington D.C. (USA), February 2012 - Blackboard Inc. has announced a major update for its flagship online-learning platform with a new release incorporating a sleek, modern design that marks the platform's biggest shift in look and feel in years. [more...] |
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| Student Achievement |
| Sopris Opens New Communication Channels |
| Longmont, CO (USA), February 2012 - Sopris Learning, a provider of research-based assessments, supplemental, and intervention materials, has announced the creation of a new YouTube Channel and Google+ business profile page. [more...] |
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| Online Curriculum |
| Leadership in Rapidly Growing K-12 Market Segment |
| Herndon, VA (USA), February 2012 - In an independent report on educational technologies, MDR's market-research service EdNET Insight ranked K12 Inc. the leading provider of online curriculum to school districts across the United States. K12 provides online curriculum and support for more than 2,000 school districts in all fifty states. [more...] |
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| Free Digital Education |
| Open Source Innovation for the Teaching Community |
 Paris (FR), January 2012 – The goal of the Sankoré programme is to make the digital education revolution available for everybody and to enhance teachers’ creativity by the potentials of working digitally and with the internet. The Sankoré Portal offers open and free access to excellent teaching contents and new resources produced with the Open-Sankoré IWB Open Source software. [more...] |
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| Game-based Learning |
| Chelsea FC launch Footee for Young Fans |
| London (UK), January 2012 - Chelsea FC has announced the launch of Chelsea Footee, an online educational football-themed entertainment zone for children that links to the National Curriculum. It has been developed in partnership with UK eLearning specialist MotivatEd. [more...] |
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| Early Learning |
| European Children’s Travelling Language Library |
| London (UK), January 2012 - The European Children’s Travelling Language Library "Eurolib" is a European Union-funded education project. It is targeted at children who have recently started to learn a foreign language and has been used in schools across Europe with great success. [more...] |
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| Wireless |
| Raynes Park High School Accelerates Learning |
| St. Albans (UK), January 2012 – Xirrus, a provider of high-performance wireless networks, has announced the deployment of 802.11n wireless arrays across the Raynes Park High School campus in London, United Kingdom. Raynes Park is a comprehensive secondary school with 1,200 eleven-to-nineteen-year-old students attending the facility. [more...] |
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