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WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blackboard Transact(TM) campus card suite now supports MIFARE(®), a leading industry standard Near-Field Communication (NFC) compatible protocol that enables highly secure contactless "smart card" transactions, the company announced today. Partner institutions can now choose either MIFARE or FeliCa, the two leading contactless technologies in the world, when issuing NFC-compatible student identification cards or mobile phones. This...
ATLANTA, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Four schools in greater Atlanta's Mainstay alternative education network use a behavior tracking and classroom management app that is becoming a powerful tool for helping the country's most challenging students. LiveSchool automates paperwork-heavy behavior tracking systems with a school-wide platform that makes sharing information and enforcing consistent rules and rewards easy. The app is among the new education-related technologies on...
LONDON, February 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Macmillan Digital Education [http://www.digital-education.com ] has made a significant move into the Brazilian EdTech market with investments in two Brazil-based start-ups targeting the adult education sector - Veduca and Easyaula. These investments bolster Digital Education's local presence as a serious "go-to" investor for EdTech entrepreneurs in the Latin American region. - Veduca [http://www.veduca.com.br ]...
New project will upgrade classrooms and labs across the country, give educators access to powerful teaching and learning software and thousands of educational resources in Arabic. London, UK (PRWEB) February 06, 2013 Promethean (LSE:PRW), a global education company, today announces it has been awarded a contract to deliver multi-user interactive display systems to 5,000 classrooms and 700 labs across Saudi Arabia. The tender, announced today at the 2013 Education World Forum, will also...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- EverFi, Inc., the leading education technology company that teaches, assesses, and certifies students in critical skills, today announced that it is joining thousands of educators, millions of students, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park in partnering with the Alliance for Excellent Education for the second annual Digital Learning Day. Digital Learning Day is a national campaign that celebrates...
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Prologic Technology Systems, Inc. announced today school board approval of their New Caney ISD contract to replace the district's legacy versions of Finance, HR and Student Information System (SIS) with Prologic's centralized TEAMS(TM) ERP & SIS solution. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130205/DA54535LOGO) The New Caney ISD is located approximately 30 miles northeast of Houston, Texas. The District houses about...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced yesterday they will finally be able to make good on a promise made when they first began selling credit card-sized computers: They will now begin selling one of their Raspberry Pi pocket computers for $25. This cheaper model – simplistically dubbed the Model A – is nothing more than a stripped down Model B with only one USB port, no onboard ethernet port, and only 256 megabytes of RAM....
ATLANTA, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC) announced the launch of inBloom Inc., a nonprofit provider of technology services aimed at connecting data, applications and people that work together to create better opportunities for students and educators. Currently, school districts are racing to adapt materials and assessments for the Common Core State Standards, and publishers are working to keep up with new academic requirements. At the...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Future teachers want more digital, mobile and social technology integrated into their training and, in turn, their future classrooms, according to a survey report released today from Blackboard Inc. and Project Tomorrow(®). According to the report, nearly 50 percent of students in teacher training programs use online podcasts and videos and turn to social networking sites to self-train for future teaching assignments. The tendency for...
The Catholic Stand, a publishing arm of Little Vatican Management, published information regarding the strategic partnership between Edvance360 LMS-SN, the Catholic Distance Learning Association (part of the National Catholic Education Association), and Holy Apostles Seminary, a small Catholic Seminary. Virginia Beach, VA (PRWEB) February 04, 2013 The Catholic Stand, a publishing arm of Little Vatican Management, published information regarding the strategic partnership between Edvance360...
