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Frequency and cost of copying college homework revealed

...to get a better handle on copying in college in the 21st century. Young-Jin Lee, assistant professor of educational technology at KU, and the Research in Learning, Assessing and Tutoring Effectively group at MIT spent four years seeing how many copied answers...

Mar. 18   4:11 pm

Full Story at Science Daily


U.S. Department of Education Report Finds Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Edusoft® Assessment Management System and DataDirectorTM among Top Three Most Frequently Used Data Systems Nationwide

...a comprehensive set of best-in-class educational solutions, ranging from research-based textbook programs to instructional technology to standards-based assessments for students and educators. The Company also publishes an extensive line of reference works...

Mar. 18   3:36 pm

Full Story at Freshnews.com


Patrick Jay Masson Joins UMassOnline as Chief Technology Officer

...techniques as well as faculty and staff interests. In this role he had oversight of all informational and instructional technology projects and services including distance learning, internet and intranet development, and advanced computing. In accepting...

Mar. 18   3:36 pm

Full Story at Freshnews.com


Media Events, Including Conference Call, Planned to Discuss Reading Results on Nation's Report Card

...California; Reporting and Dissemination Chair of the National Assessment Governing Board Kim Kozbial-Hess, Educational Technology Trainer and Fourth Grade Teacher, Toledo, Ohio; Member of the National Assessment Governing Board Steven Paine, West Virginia...

Mar. 18   3:11 pm

Full Story at PR Newswire


Holbrook Travel in Partnership with PASCO

...to Costa Rica will offer the group leader a complimentary, all-in-one, mobile SPARK Science Learning System? for instructional technology integration in global field study. Upon arrival in Costa Rica, each group will be provided with a SPARKscience? Mobile...

Mar. 18   12:34 am

Full Story at PR Newswire


AMD Foundation to Sponsor Game Design Workshop at 2010 Games for Change Festival

...Games for Change. ?This workshop can have a valuable and lasting impact in this space by putting educational technology tools in the hands of a broad network of leaders who serve so many of these young people.? The workshop will inspire and help educators...

Mar. 18   5:18 am

Full Story at Freshnews.com


Ed-Tech-Stats

Instead, it spotlights school- and district-level data on some very interesting trends, including the growth of online curricula, opportunities for online coursetaking, the use of multimedia digital content, online assessments, and school

Mar. 18   4:48 am

Full Story at Education Week


Solving Algebra on Smartphones

Using her school-issued smartphone, Katie Denton, a junior at Dixon High School in Holly Ridge, N.C., reads the biographic profile of a student from another school that is also participating in a Project K-Nect math class. ?Sara D. Davis for Education

Mar. 18   4:48 am

Full Story at Education Week


Educators Struggle to Design Mobile-Learning Content

Figuring out how to put cellphones into the hands of students?complete with data plans and security features?is often seen as the most daunting step for districts eager to tap the potential learning benefits of mobile technologies. But once those

Mar. 18   4:48 am

Full Story at Education Week


Mobile Learning Costs Add Up

One of the most oft-cited reasons for embracing mobile technologies in education is their low cost compared with that of other equipment, such as personal computers. But at a time when many schools are battling significant holes in state budgets and

Mar. 18   4:48 am

Full Story at Education Week


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