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The job market is becoming more and more complicated as companies no longer guarantee lifetime employment, forcing employees to be constantly on the lookout for better opportunities and higher salaries.Read the Full Story
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, speaking at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) conference in Washington, D.C., indicated that she might consider a “growth model” of assessment–a system of measuring individual students’ academic improvement as they advance from grade to grade–that could allow states to change how they rate student progress.Read the Full Story
This Year’s Conference Draws Record Attendance With Developers Registered From Across 31 States and Five CountriesRead the Full Story
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 – In 1991, David Gelernter, a computer scientist at Yale, proposed using software to create a computer simulation of the physical world, making it possible to map everything from traffic flow and building layouts to sales and currency data on a computer screen.Read the Full Story
High-speed internet access: Commission opens policy debate on closing the broadband gapRead the Full Story
I was chatting with some folks at a nearby telecom company called Citizens about bandwidth. The company is small, but it’s doing something very cool: It’s about to launch an IPTV service.Read the Full Story
Compared to conventional classroom settings, e-learning relies heavily on a student’s reading ability. However, many students, particularly those at-risk or those who may have already dropped out of conventional schools, tend to have low reading ability that affects their ability to learn online. The problem is that relatively little has been done to address reading […]
Strong bipartisan majority supports funding for public broadcasting near FY 2005 levelsRead the Full Story
Philadelphia, PA—Dr. Kurt Steinhaus, new president of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), challenged all educators to become stronger advocates for funding of education technology locally and nationally at the opening of the 2005 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC).Read the Full Story
Communication is one of the linchpins of modern learning organizations, and Web-based virtual collaboration tools have earned significant credibility as communication aids. Instant messaging (IM), chat, and Web and video conferencing help enable widespread deployment of timely content to aid employee education on new product releases, corporate strategies and critical job function skills. Collaborative learning […]