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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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| Olympic Achievers |
| Non-Traditional Education for Non-Traditional Students |
 Norcross, GA (USA), November 2011 - With the hope of becoming the best in the world, world-class amateur athletes are devoted to their sport. So when do these athletes plan for life after sports, and what happens when it's time to turn in the uniform or hang up the skates? [more...] |
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| Stress Management |
| Training to Improve Educator Effectiveness |
 Duluth, GA (USA), November 2011 - ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI), an IACET-approved, nationally accredited, distance-training institution dedicated exclusively to the child care and education workforce, offers educators a new course for stress management. [more...] |
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| Mastering Challenges |
| Student Success Gets Boost from Resiliency Education App |
| Arlington, VA/San Francisco, CA (USA), October 2011 - Teen Wellness, an online app that helps students improve resiliency skills, is now integrated into Naviance, the leading provider of measurable student-success solutions for K-12 schools and districts, through Naviance Succeed®. This integration will allow school staff and administrators to provide holistic academic, career, and emotional support to students using a single, integrated platform. [more...] |
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| Education |
| Romania Training Centres Equipped with Sanako Study Labs |
| Turku (FI), October 2011 - The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports has equipped two hundred of its teacher-training centres with Sanako Study 1200 language labs - one hundred for English and the other hundred for French. Teacher training on using the new language labs will take place between November 2011 and April 2013. Nine thousand teachers will be trained during this period. [more...] |
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| Early Learning |
| Mobile Technology Used for Underserved Children |
 New Delhi (IN)/San Diego, CA (USA), September 2011 - Qualcomm Incorporated and Sesame Workshop India, have announced Galli Galli Sim Sim, the Radiophone project. This initiative combines community radio with mobile phones to expand access to quality educational experiences for children, particularly children of migrant populations that reside in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi. [more...] |
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| European Schoolnet |
| Come Closer, Neighbour! |
.gif) Brussels (BE), August 2011 - In Europe there are roughly seventy country borders of which 25 are also language borders. Through eTwinning, many schools are crossing these frontiers by learning each other’s languages. eTwinning is part of Comenius, the EU programme for schools. [more...] |
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| Higher Education |
| How to Save Thousands of Dollars in College Costs |
 Austin, TX (USA), July 2011 - For the first time, with MyEdu's new credit-by-examination tool, high school students can predetermine the number of college credits and savings gained from taking Advanced Placement (AP) tests in high school. All students have free access to MyEdu's official online academic data and applications. [more...] |
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| Teachers TV |
| Promethean Planet Provides Access to Educational Archive |
 Blackburn (UK), June 2011 - Promethean, a global education-technology company, in agreement with the UK's Department for Education, is making the Teacher's TV archive of over 3,500 programmes designed to support teaching and learning in the classroom available for educators worldwide. [more...] |
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| Mass Notification Service |
| Blackboard Supports Preparation for Hurricane Season |
| Washington D.C., (USA), June 2011 – With the beginning of the hurricane season, Blackboard Inc. is helping local governments, K-12 schools, and college campuses prepare for managing communications during severe storms. To get ready, education and government leaders are using Blackboard's trusted mass-notification services. [more...] |
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| Legislation |
| Ensuring Educators have Skills for Digital Age Instruction |
| Washington D.C. (USA), June 2011 - Representing a broad cross section of the U.S. education and business communities, eleven leading associations have applauded the introduction of the Achievement Through Technology and Innovation Act (ATTAIN) in the U.S. Senate. [more...] |
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