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Information Today August 23, 2010 |
Cengage Learning Enhances CengageBrain.com The website, which allows students to purchase or rent textbooks, ebooks, or individual echapters and download study tools, features a more intuitive interface for students |
Information Today October 25, 2010 |
Cengage Learning Releases CourseReader Cengage Learning has introduced CourseReader, a customized, digital collection of content assets for the classroom, further strengthening its CengageCourse suite of digital learning products and services. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
This Just In...Advantage Learning Systems, Inc. Advantage Learning Systems, Inc. has announced a Web-based product called eSchoolOffice. The initial version of the software will provide functions designed to streamline school operations. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2002 Lawrence E. Levine |
Using Technology to Enhance the Classroom Environment Much is being written about the use of technology as a teaching and learning tool. However, much of the focus is on distance learning. This article deals with another aspect of this topic, namely, the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning in a classroom environment... |
Fast Company November 2010 Stephanie Schomer |
Udemy: A Free Online University for All Gagan Biyani is connecting the eager-to-teach with the eager-to-learn through Udemy, the Academy of You. |
Information Today November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2000 |
Late Breaks - The United States International University The United States International University has introduced an online Master of Arts in Education degree, with a concentration in technology and learning.... |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 |
Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses. |
Information Today February 23, 2012 |
Social Media Data Available for ebrary Student E-book Survey ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available online along with the full report. |
Information Today May 14, 2012 |
Cengage Learning and Blackboard Introduce Digital Content Integration An integrated solution gives instructors and students streamlined access to Cengage Learning's digital learning solutions and core curriculum content directly through the Blackboard Learn learning management system. |
Information Today April 25, 2011 |
Flat World Knowledge Releases 'Make It Your Own' Platform for Textbooks The fully-automated system gives professors greater control over textbook content, and the ability, with one click, to make their modified book available to students free online or in multiple, low-cost digital and print formats. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 |
edumatch.com Finding software that matches the various precise needs of instructors across the country may be easier with edumatch.com. This site offers many ways to search, so educators have extreme flexibility in framing their requests... |
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 |
All Grading Tasks on One Software Program Created and tested by educators, GradeSpeed is a gradebook for PCs that lets teachers record grades and report them as needed to students, parents and administrators... |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Cognitive Concept's GameGoo Students in grades K-2 can receive help in learning language with Cognitive Concept's GameGoo, a Web-based educational games site. These games are based on state language arts curriculum standards for students grades K-2. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2000 |
System Facilitates Training Programs Online or in Person The Pathlore Learning Management System helps instructors manage Web-based learning. The system lets schools or companies plan, deliver and manage online education, and it lets them assess the performance of a student or group.... |
Information Today October 24, 2011 |
Cengage Learning to Improve Interoperability With Sakai Courseware Management Platform The collaboration leverages the power of Cengage Learning's MindLinks integration to deliver improved ease of use for students, instructors, and administrators. |
T.H.E. Journal March 18, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
The Suitability of Technology-based Education for Skills Development Skill development now refers not only to specific technical skills for specific vocations but to the development of workplace skills (or competencies) and personal development skills as well. |
Information Today May 23, 2013 |
Blackboard and Vital Source Launch Etextbook Pilot Pilot programs with a number of colleges and universities will be launched to test-drive an integrated offering that makes the VitalSource Bookshelf platform available directly within Blackboard Learn. |
Information Today March 14, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Cengage Learning Introduces New `MindTap' Personal Learning Experience MindTap is a new personalized program of digital products and services that engages students with interactivity while also offering students and instructors choice in content, platform, devices, and learning tools. |
Information Today September 29, 2011 |
Gale Introduces Gale Business Insights: Global The resource is designed for undergraduate and graduate business school students, as well as academic faculty, librarians, and professional researchers. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2, 2009 David Nagel |
Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree. |
InternetNews April 14, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Study Links Facebook to Lower GPA New research finds that university students using the popular social network perform more poorly than their offline peers. |
Information Today May 8, 2014 |
SAGE Debuts Research Methods Cases Collection These studies were specially commissioned and designed to explain abstract methodological concepts in practice, especially in the social and behavioral sciences. |
Information Today October 17, 2011 |
Pearson Launches OpenClass Free Learning Environment OpenClass offers institutions and instructors the ability to engage and interact with their students using the collaborative technologies that students are embracing -- at no cost. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2000 Jacquelyn Barker Tulloch |
Sophisticated Technology Offers Higher Education Options Ironically, the use of traditional terminology associated with distance learning is diminishing at a time when the use of technology is gaining ground. Meanwhile, the lines are blurring between distance education and traditional classroom learning... |
T.H.E. Journal November 2000 |
Linking to Literacy Lessons A new free Web service from Follett Software Company, www.pathwaysmodel.com, provides teachers and librarians with direct links to an annotated list of Web sites that a group of educators discovered to aid in the teaching of literacy skills... |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Markey et al. |
The Benefits of Integrating an Information Literacy Skills Game into Academic Coursework: A Preliminary Evaluation BiblioBouts seeks to satisfy student requests for a gaming experience directly integrated into their current coursework. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 |
Channel into the Internet Blackboard Inc. announces the launch of Blackboard.com, an e-Learning Web site with three channels that provide customizable, subject-specific academic resources; global, interactive communities for students and instructors; and Blackboard's online course creation capability... |
CRM February 2012 Leonard Klie |
IVR Identifies At-Risk Students Vocantas IVR helps Avila University reach out to students in danger of transferring or dropping out. |
Information Today May 27, 2010 |
Knovel Adds Interactive Problem Sets to Popular Engineering Textbook Working closely with publisher Cengage Learning, Knovel has added value to the core text by presenting a unique set of problems and solutions in each chapter. |
Inc. May 2009 Adam Bluestein |
A Recession High Note TakeLessons.com, an online service that connects music students with its instructors in more than 400 U.S. cities, is having a very good year. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 |
Ed Tech Community Supports Katrina Victims Several education companies such as Kinetic Books and Learning Today are providing free technology resources to students who were displaced by two recent hurricanes. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2001 |
Textbooks to Become Interactive Houghton Mifflin and netLibrary have launched a digital textbook initiative to create electronic versions of Houghton Mifflin College Division texts. By the fall of 2001, electronic textbooks will be available on a Web-based learning platform called MetaText... |
Information Today January 28, 2010 |
Elsevier Launches Digital Learning Platform for Health Science Education: Pageburst The Pageburst platform is designed specifically for nursing and health professions students in North America who require anytime/anywhere access to course material and utilize texts as reference guides throughout their careers. |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Bringing That CanDo Spirit An educator's determined effort to update his school's archaic data systems results in a grassroots programming project that promoted student learning. |
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Sara Stroud |
Merging IT With AT Assistive tech joins the mainstream When Apple's iPad hit shelves earlier this year, educators and educational software developers were already thinking about what it could mean for students with learning and communication impairments. |
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers. |
T.H.E. Journal October 7, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active Wikis are truly powerful tools to support collaboration. However, teachers are the central engager and the one who keeps the process moving forward. |
Information Today January 8, 2009 |
Nature Education Launches Free Educational Resource--Scitable Currently focused on genetics, Scitable combines authoritative scientific information with social media functionality. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski |
How Music Teachers Got Their Groove Back Music Instruction Goes Digital Carol Broos is on a mission. She is determined to appeal to the estimated 80 percent of students who do not enroll in traditional school music programs -- band, orchestra, and choir. |
T.H.E. Journal February 4, 2010 Bridget McCrea |
Early Intervention with Technology When reading issues began surfacing within its elementary student population in the mid-1990s, Liberty Public Schools developed an internal tutoring program to help boost those students' scores on statewide reading tests. |
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Sara Stroud |
A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills. |
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2000 |
Online Learning for Teachers Created for educators interested in developing the skills to bring technology into the classroom or in teaching online, instructors can access information about eTeaching workshops held at eCollege.com and seminars held on the institution's campus... |
Chemistry World November 3, 2009 Nina Notman |
Cash lures top achievers away from US science The highest academic achievers are leaving science and technology faster than those who obtain lower grades, says a new report published in the US. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2003 Lynn Feist |
Removing Barriers to Professional Development This article reports the results of a study to examine the types of professional development activities that met the needs of instructors who are involved in online course development. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2001 Alvin Y. Wang & Michael H. Newlin, University of Central Florida |
Online Lectures: Benefits for the Virtual Classroom Most Web-based courses rely primarily on asynchronous communication to deliver course information to students. With this form of interaction, instructors and students do not interact simultaneously. Most courses would benefit from the addition of synchronous communication... |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Facebook Training Wheels A secured social networking site allows schools to incorporate the technology into academics while preparing students for the perils of online communities. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2000 |
Teachers Can Learn to Integrate the Internet An online course certificate program from Jones International University is designed to empower K-12 faculty and staff to effectively incorporate Internet learning in the classroom.... |
T.H.E. Journal October 28, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Pearson Launches Early Warning System for At-Risk Students In an effort to help schools combat the decision by at-risk students simply to "give up" and drop out, Pearson has launched Prevent, a data-driven software system designed to give early-warning alerts to educators. |