It started on Sept. 12 with a town hall meeting about the potential of technology to transform learning in Redwood City, Calif.
These and other education investments leverage technology in ways that make learning easier, faster and more rewarding--from facilitating distance learning, to constructing computer labs, to providing cutting-edge equipment to innovative teachers around the world.
In particular, for those who are not well versed in this topic, Hess grounds the conversation in the possibilities of where technology will go in the future and in a history of regulation, distance learning, and technology that is useful to understand and heed.
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It is not surprising that the school would commission an equally advanced design for its new construction, not only for the latest in technology and sustainability, but also as an appropriate learning environment for those engaged in creative disciplines.
"Oregon Scientific has a long history in creating innovative consumer technology and we've had tremendous success in the electronic learning products category, " said David Riley, Product and Marketing Director for Oregon Scientific, Inc.
Prize is awarded to the North Catholic University Foundation in Antioquia, Colombia for its Virtual Assisted Literacy Programme, which uses e-learning to improve technology skills and employment opportunities in marginalized communities.
Enhancing the University's philosophy of open-ended exploration, students discover new opportunities for learning with mobile computing, sharing ideas and collaborating with peers and faculty while learning how to utilize technology effectively in their academic professional and personal lives.
Professor Stephen Cox, head of the speech processing laboratory at the University of East Anglia and scientific adviser to the project, said the technology was made possible due to advances in machine-learning algorithms.
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The report summarizes the multi-stakeholder debate organized at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, on 17 and 18 November 2011, which focused on challenges of, and practical solutions for, promoting personalization through technology in the classrooms for students, particularly for those with learning difficulties and physical disabilities.
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The proposals, amendments to a large education bill, will seek to improve computer technology to meet the learning styles of girls, reduce sexual harassment in schools, gather statistics on girls' participation in high school sports and develop ways to help keep pregnant and parenting teens in school.
Across schools in Wales you will see an array of technology being used innovatively for learning and teaching.
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The Indian Institute of Technology has developed a methodology combining e-learning and direct contact session in remote centres across the country to train teachers.
What if the district CIO could spend time visiting with IT leaders in the local business community learning about how they are leveraging technology to achieve the goals of their organizations and create cost efficiencies.
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Cathy is a technology teacher and student learning plan advisor at Edmonds Heights K-12 school in Edmonds, Washington.
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The Foundation is a governing body supported by the Venezuela Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology, providing free access to ICTs to enable adults and other users in achieving lifelong learning.
Schools across the nation are in need of a diverse set of talented teachers, especially in our big cities and rural areas, and especially in the areas of Math, Science, Technology, Special Education, and English Language Learning.
This shift is enabling education technology companies to fulfil the call in education for on-demand, highly targeted and relevant online learning and open resources.
Many of the advances in the energy field have been incremental, based on learning from the deployment of a technology.
Develop training policies for teachers in science subjects, integrating of mathematics, science and technology including the issue of gender and participative learning.
Technology can play a key role in providing innovative ways to solve educational and societal issues, such as learning to read, which is, in fact, a basic civil right.
The new technology is coming from outfits like Advantage Learning Systems, a small but fast-growing software company in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. that sells instructional aids and computerized quizzes to monitor their results.
With more than 1 million unique student users "Since the launch of LearnSmart in 2009, we've developed a deep understanding of how personalized learning through adaptive technology helps improve student performance, " said Brian Kibby, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
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The TCU provides scalable e learning teacher training including preparation to use ICTs, collaborating in curricula development with seven educational technology departments at universities.
If broadcast flag rules and technology were in place, it could keep a university from playing part of a news program for a distance-learning course taken over the Internet, or even impose restrictions on a teacher who records a documentary to show in class, she says.
The SMILE consortium is an independent, open source member based community that is committed to improving the learning practices for students globally, especially in underserved communities, by leveraging the benefits of innovative mobile technology.
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