ED: Blended learning helps boost achievement
A new analysis of existing online-learning research by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) reveals that students who took all or part of their class on line performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.
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Web site recreates Apollo 11 mission in real time
Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man’s first steps on the moon. Now, they’ll be able to watch the Apollo 11 mission recreated in real time on the web, follow Twitter feeds of transmissions between Mission Control and the spacecraft, and even get an eMail alert when the lunar module touches down.
Key words: Apollo 11, JFK Library, lunar module
For love, life and a picnic
Naturally with Spring and Summer there comes longer days and increased spells of mild weather; but also the anniversaries of many couples who started their married lives together in the easy-going seasons.
ED: Blended learning helps boost achievement
A new analysis of existing online-learning research by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) reveals that students who took all or part of their class on line performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction. Key words: Arne Duncan, President Obama, Department of Education, online learning, education research, education, technology
E-Rate Giving K-12 Schools H.264 Video Technology with HaiVision’s IP Video Distribution Technology
Miami University is using HaiVision’s Video Furnace System to deliver live television channels and video on demand to students and professors across its main and the university’s Voice of America Learning Center.
AASL Information Technology Pathfinder Award, sponsored by Follett Software Co., presented to winners at ’09 ALA Annual Conference
Two school library media specialists are the winners of this year’s American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Information Technology Pathfinder Award, which has been sponsored by Follett Software Company since 1985.
D-Link Meets Needs of Education Information Technology
D-Link, aware of education’s needs to keep pace with technology yet hampered by restrictions on budgets plus various requirements to save energy and comply with regulations, is now targeting those concerns with its networking equipment specifically designed for education.
Renaissance Learning and Study Island Integrate Product Offerings
Renaissance Learning and Study Island today announced a joint agreement that will enable educators to utilize the Renaissance Responder and NEO 2 laptop with the Study Island standards mastery product.
Scribd opens new market for online texts
Hoping to do for the written word what iTunes did for music, the online document-sharing service Scribd has opened an internet store that will offer new sales opportunities for publishers and authors–including teachers, professors, and others who have written educational texts–and could spawn more bargains for students and other readers.