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Secondary and post-secondary science courses part of new product and services releaseSOURCE: PLATO LearningMINNEAPOLIS – December 20, 2011 –PLATO Learning, a leading provider of online education courses for pre-K through adult learners, has announced its winter product release that addresses a range of customer needs.Read the Press Release
New specials include a story of the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and, from INDEPENDENT LENS, an intimate look at “Daisy Bates: The First Lady of Little Rock,” a collection of interviews called “Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975” and a filmmaker’s cross country campaign in “More Than a Month”–Schedule also features 2012 Sundance Film Festival selection SLAVERY BY ANOTHER […]
App arrives just in time for holiday travel, building on success of the PBS KIDS Video App on iPad, which served more than 86 million streams in NovemberSOURCE: PBSRead the Press Release
The City University of New York’s CUNY Academic Commons announced today that it is developing “Commons in a Box,” an open-source software project to help other institutions and groups set up online spaces for their members.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
ARLINGTON, VA, November 10, 2011 – Adding to its lineup of successful children’s educational apps, PBS KIDS today announced the release of the new SUPER WHY Alpha Boost! App for iPhone and iPod touch. The new app, available now on the App Store, is based on SUPER WHY, the award-winning hit preschool series from Out […]
ARLINGTON, VA – October 24, 2011 – PBS announced that the first episode of NOVA’s “The Fabric of the Cosmos” will premiere exclusively on the free PBS apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch beginning today, Monday, October 24, one week before broadcast.SOURCE: PBSRead the Press Release
Athabasca University is presenting a series of five noon-hour webcasts exploring major issues and opportunities presented by OER. SOURCE: Athabasca University Read the Press Release and Access the Links to the Webcasts
The premiere will feature an interactive presentation by Communication and Business Professor John Daly about the “Politics of Ideas.” He will examine how good ideas can be put into place and why some ideas never make it that far. In an era in which big ideas in technology, communication and business can alter the landscape […]
Set in the era of bathtub gin, bootleggers and speakeasies, PROHIBITION tells the true story of the rise, rule and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It was called the “Noble Experiment,” but it was in fact one of America’s most notorious civic failures, an object lesson in the challenge of legislating […]
“Our country has pioneered manned space travel and the creation of the Internet. Yet today, our country is lagging behind other countries in leveraging the power of technology in our classrooms,” said Secretary Duncan Friday at the White House launch of a new congressionally created education nonprofit, Digital Promise.SOURCE: US Department of EducationRead the Press […]
