HTML5 for eLearning: Worth The Effort?
Digg DiggIf you’re in the Learning and Development field, have you been able to go through a workday without hearing or reading about HTML5? Reference to its application in eLearning especially to mobile learning (mLearning) comes up at just about every conference and training seminar. No wonder, everywhere I turn, someone’s using an iPad, iPhone, [...]
14 November 2011
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Governors Will Guide the Shift to Digital Learning
by Tom Vander State leadership matters in education (as mentioned in National Journal), now more than ever. States are broke. While revenues lag, costs continue to escalate (as a result of automatic pay increases, cost of living adjustments, and public pension payments) requiring several more years of painful cutbacks. Without strong state leadership, these cuts [...]
10 January 2011
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New grant program seeks solutions to toughest classroom challenges
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has partnered with the nation’s largest teachers union and its charitable foundation to launch a grant program encouraging public school educators to identify and solve K-12 education’s most pressing classroom challenges. The new “Challenge to Innovate” (C2i) program leverages ED’s Open Innovation Portal to solicit ideas in a process known [...]
11 September 2010
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Nation’s Boldest Education Reform Plans to Receive Federal Innovation Grants Once Private Match Is Secured
A cross-section of 49 school districts, nonprofit education organizations and institutions of higher education have been selected from among nearly 1,700 applicants for potential funding under the Investing in Innovation (i3) program. To receive a share of the $650 million in i3 grants, the winning applicants must secure a commitment for a 20 percent private [...]
6 August 2010
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