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Polycom Helps Southeast Kansas Education Service Center Bring Distance Learning to 55,000 Students in Rural Communities Though the Power of Video Collaboration

110 video classrooms in 47 school districts help ensure K-12 students are taught robust curricula despite millions in Kansas education budget cuts PLEASANTON, Calif. – Apr 10, 2012 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC), today announced that the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center at Greenbush has equipped […]

The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything

The performance of computers has shown remarkable and steady growth, doubling every year and a half since the 1970s. What most folks don’t know, however, is that the electrical efficiency of computing (the number of computations that can be completed per kilowatt-hour of electricity used) has also doubled every year and a half since the […]

Music Schools Take Performances to Next Level

University music schools might be the last place you would expect Internet connectivity to make a difference. But these days, the network does matter. By utilizing advanced research and education networks, musicians now are able to practice and perform simultaneously even when they’re miles apart. This capability has broad implications for musicians everywhere.Converge MagazineFull Article

Students Endlessly E-Mail Professors for Help. A New Service Hopes to Organize the Answers.

Meet the Ed-Tech Start-Ups It’s a golden age for educational-technology start-ups. The past three years have seen a spike in venture-capital investment in upstart companies, many founded by entrepreneurs just out of college. Last month The Chronicle outlined the trend (“A Boom Time for Education Start-Ups”), but we wanted to dig deeper.The Chronicle of Higher […]

GSMA [(Groupe Spéciale Mobile) Association] Announces that India Will Become the World’s Second Largest Mobile Broadband Market Within Four Years

Additional Spectrum Needed to Ensure India Builds on Momentum; Affordability Key to Long-Term Mobile Broadband Growth and Social and Economic ProsperityGSMAFull Article

STEM Education Technology Trends: Evolving Classrooms

A nationwide push for creating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) learning opportunities through technology is taking center stage. Learn more about what it looks like and how students are benefiting.Cisco Full Article

Remarks by Chairman Genachowski and Digital Education Leaders on National Adoption of Digital Textbooks

Chairman Genachowski to Hosted Leaders From the Digital Education Ecosystem to Drive National Adoption of Digital TextbooksOn Thursday, March 29, 2012, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski met with leaders across the digital education space, including CEOs from broadband companies, publishers and digital device manufacturers, for a working group meeting on transitioning the U.S. K-12 schools to […]

Georgia district implements virtual-world technology

A major metropolitan school district has announced that it will offer a 3D virtual-world environment to every classroom teacher in its 35 schools.eSchool NewsFull Story

NSF Campus Cyberinfrastructure – Network Infrastructure and Engineering (CC-NIE) Program

An opportunity for leading U.S. research universities to create a platform for innovation History of Innovation The research and education community has played a seminal role in the creation of the modern Internet and the applications that have made it the most transformative technology of the 20th century. The Internet we know today is largely […]

Blackboard Buys 2 Leading Supporters of Open-Source Competitor Moodle

For years, colleges looking for course-management software considered a choice between Blackboard’s dominant commercial product or an open-source alternative such as Moodle or Sakai. Now Blackboard essentially owns the open-source alternatives as well.Wired CampusFull Article

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