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Dailymotion Brings Video to One Laptop per Child Foundation’s XO Laptop
Dailymotion — Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Dailymotion, the world’s largest independent video sharing site, announced a partnership with One Laptop per Child. Under terms of the agreement, Dailymotion and OLPC will explore collaborations involving Dailymotion’s technology and selected educational content to benefit underprivileged children globally. Read More »
PricewaterhouseCoopers Teams with UN High Commissioner for Refugees To Build Schools for Refugee Children of Darfur
PricewaterhouseCoopers — Monday, August 11, 2008
PricewaterhouseCoopers has donated more than $4 million to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to be used to build and operate schools for refugee children who have fled the conflict in Darfur. Read More »
Vantage Learning and the Australian Council for Education Research Announce Partnership
Vantage Learning — Monday, August 11, 2008
Vantage Learning announce it will provide computer-based essay scoring using Vantage’s patented IntelliMetric® technology for the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER), one of the world’s leading educational research centers. Read More »
International Students Learn English Online With New Internet English Club
Effortless English — Thursday, July 31, 2008
Effortless English announces the launch of a new online English club. Building on their mp3 English lessons, Effortless English has created an online community for international students. Read More »
Intel Collaborates with Government of Portugal on a Comprehensive New Education Initiative To Providing 500,000 Educational PCs to Portuguese Children
Intel — Wednesday, July 30, 2008
In one of the most comprehensive educational technology programs in the world, the Portuguese government is providing educational PCs to school children receiving basic education -- equivalent to elementary school -- in a memorandum of understanding with Intel Corporation. Read More »
GeoBeats To Provide High Quality Travel Videos To Support Scholastic's EVERYDAY FRENCH Language Education Program
Scholastic UK Ltd. — Wednesday, July 30, 2008
GeoBeats, Inc. has been appointed by Scholastic UK Ltd. to provide licensed travel videos that will be featured in a new Scholastic UK Ltd international language education program. Beginning in 2009, EVERYDAY FRENCH will target primary students, ages 5–11 years, in the United Kingdom. Read More »
United Kingdom Agencies DCSF, DIUS and Becta Release Statement of Intent on the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF)®
SIF Association — Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and Becta, the government agency for technology in learning in the United Kingdom, released a statement of intent recommending the adoption and use of the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF). Read More »
Kenya Ministry of Education To Use ePals To Connect Kenyan Schools Worldwide
ePals, Inc. — Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Kenyan Ministry of Education will provide the opportunity for their students and educators to safely connect with schools around the world through ePals (www.epals.com), the largest and fastest growing global network for meaningful learning. Read More »
Stanford University and Innovations for Learning Team To Bring Revolutionary $50 Handheld Computer to Latin America
Innovations for Learning — Saturday, July 05, 2008
Stanford University’s School of Education and Innovations for Learning have entered into a social entrepreneurship collaboration to bring the $50 Teachermate Handheld Computer to extremely underserved indigenous children in Latin America. Teachermate is a compact mobile learning tool that resembles a hand-held game, a device familiar to many young children. Read More »
Promethean Picked for Prestigious UNESCO Award for Innovation; Half of Delegates Chose Promethean Learner Response Systems as "Most Innovative Idea"
Promethean — Saturday, July 05, 2008
Promethean has received an award for innovation from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the education agency in the United Nations system. Promethean was invited to exhibit and present their range of learner response systems at UNESCO's ICT in Education Innovative Awards. Read More »
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