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Eleven new ed-tech services to know about

May 15, 2014 by By Dennis Pierce, Editorial Director, <a href='https://twitter.com/eSN_Dennis' target='_blank'>@eSN_Dennis</a>

A “discovery engine” that uses a personalized search service to help professionals find reputable online degree programs from accredited universities, and an assessment application that allows teams of…

Eleven new ed-tech services to watch

November 5, 2013May 13, 2013 by From staff reports

An online simulation in which students create their own company, then compete with each other by buying and selling shares of stock, and an iPad app for visual…

Survey: Ed-tech use falls short of desired goals

November 5, 2013August 23, 2012 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

Despite budget constraints brought on by a lagging economy, K-12 schools and colleges are holding steady when it comes to ed-tech use. But they’d like to be doing…

Ed-tech leaders schooled on interoperability standards

November 5, 2013June 14, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

When school technology directors purchase an innovative product from one vendor and an exciting upgrade from another vendor, schools can find themselves in a tangle of incompatible formats.…

Twelve new ed-tech companies to watch

November 5, 2013June 6, 2012 by From staff reports

Game-based learning and mobile apps are beginning to catch on in schools—and these also were key characteristics that defined several of the dozen emerging ed-tech companies recognized by…

New guidelines for ed-tech research could help educators, vendors

November 5, 2013December 8, 2011 by By Meris Stansbury, Online Editor

To produce a stimulating 21st-century learning environment, school leaders see educational technology as a no-brainer. But using research to distinguish a truly effective ed-tech product from a less-than-effective…

Survey reveals slow progress in education technology

November 5, 2013July 12, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

U.S. schools’ average overall scores on an annual survey designed to measure their progress toward implementing 21st-century classrooms and learning skills increased less than 1 percent from 2009,…

Summit: Mobile computing is education’s future

April 26, 2011June 21, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor

Speakers at a recent education technology industry summit had a key piece of advice for the company executives who make and sell products for schools: Go mobile.

Cracks in school innovation fund might present problems

April 26, 2010March 9, 2010 by Maya T. Prabhu, Assistant Editor

Just days before the U.S. Department of Education released applications for the $650 million Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund on March 8, education technology researchers and developers expressed…

SIIA names top education market products

November 5, 2013December 18, 2009 by By Maya T. Prabhu, Assistant Editor

The Software and Information Industry Association recently recognized its top 10 Innovation Incubators, giving top honors to the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen and the Waterford Assessment of Core Skills.

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