The technology giant has revamped its iTunes U platform to allow teachers build lessons directly through an iPad app, rather than just through Web browsers.
Forty-six percent of school administrators cite mobile device use as a “major factor” in college- and career-readiness instruction for students.
Education Week’s new special report, Navigating the Ed-Tech Marketplace, offers a broad look at the landscape of buyers and sellers operating in and around K-12 systems.
An ad-free search engine, Bing in the Classroom, was launched today by Microsoft, but adults in the community are urged to earn rewards using the “ads-in” version.
Autism Expressed is about to roll out a training program for 60 new users. Here’s how that will look.
The telecommunications giant is extending the program indefinitely beyond its original June 2014 end date, and expanding eligibility to more families.
Panelists at the South by Southwest education conference discuss the challenges of securing student data, and the political realities of explaining safeguards to parents.
Google Play for Education is adding book rentals to its repertoire and Chromebooks’ use in education is expanding, increasing Google’s influence in the K-12 market.
Changes to the E-rate program, controversy over data privacy, and improving school budgets are expected to impact preK-12 companies doing business with schools in 2014.
Our most popular stories of 2013 tackled teachers’ spending habits, growth in the global education market, and three common core-related issues.