Education Week will be offering new and analysis from the ASU/GSV Education Innovation Summit, a conference focued on entrpreneurship and business, being held April 15-17 in Arizona.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook are inviting developers to build prototypes for apps supporting college attendance, social learning, and out-of-school study.
The Business Roundtable is staging a competition meant to financially support the expansion of “high-performing” K-12 programs.
A demonstration by a 13-year-old offers a highlight at the South by Southwest Conference and reflects many of the event’s core themes.
Prominent researcher Sugata Mitra has won an award to design a “cloud-based” school, in India, that would emphasize student-centered learning.
The University of Michigan is now offering a class to develop entrepreneur skills among Teach for America members in Detroit.
There were 48 mergers and acquistions among education- and training-related technology companies in 2012, according to one recent analysis.
A top Democratic lawmaker proposes creating an advanced research center, modeled on the defense program known as DARPA, to promote advanced learning technologies.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is partnering with a group of community colleges to promote entrepreneurship, and high-tech start-ups.
Despite much speculation, there is no reason to fear that educational technology will fall victim to a “tech bubble,” argues an analysis from CB Insights.