The Learning Accelerator is working with between 25-30 districts in an effort to create a “pricing database” for computing devices.
The spending surge is being driven by demand for mobile personal computers, which account for 63 percent of total educational spending on hardware.
Bipartisan federal student data-privacy legislation likely to be introduced this week would give the Federal Trade Commission new authority to regulate educational technology vendors.
Congress has appropriated $950,000 for the development of “engaging” Web and mobile apps about how it works, and civic participation, for K-12 students.
Seven countries provided 500,000 or more mobile devices to their students in K-12 last year, according to Futuresource Consulting.
Higher education learners rely on their mobile devices to study, and 77 percent report getting better grades as a result, according to new research.
Futuresource Consulting projects that half of students and teachers in the U.S. will have access to their own personal computer in school by 2015-16.
Google has bought app-maker Launchpad Toys, prompting speculation about how the Silicon Valley corporation is expanding its reach into the market for kids and families.
As some schools turn from tablets to Chromebooks, new research shows that worldwide shipments of tablets have fallen for the first time since that data was collected.
Citelighter, an ed-tech startup with an online platform designed to break the writing process down into simple steps, raised $2 million in Seed-2 financing.