Blog Juice for Educational Technology

In a move that could strengthen competition in the market for online course management systems, educational publishing giant Pearson PLC said its Pearson Education unit is buying eCollege.com, which sells eLearning syste…

The Healthy Vending program, from Horizon Software International, a food-service technology company, makes healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables available in vending machines and can track students’ purchases so pa…

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ education and judiciary committees have sent letters to 19 universities admonishing them for their poor record in letting students illegally download music and movies over th…

Paul Vallas could have settled for a peaceful retirement. After all, the 53-year-old superintendent has earned it, having successfully managed and improved large urban school districts such as Chicago and Philadelphia. I…

In a whale-sized project, the world’s scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth’s 1.8 million known species and put it all on one web site, open to the public free of charge.

The effort, calle…

College and high school radio stations that broadcast online are closely watching as events unfold that could decide whether they must pay costly new royalty fees.

Internet radio broadcasters got a reprieve in their …

Pamela Bless thought she had found an exciting alternative to traditional instruction when she enrolled her three children in a new online charter school slated to open this fall.

Instead, she’s wondering where her 13…

An emerging trend in video surveillance technology could help tip off school leaders to potential acts of theft or violence before they even happen.

Researchers and security companies are developing cameras that not o…

Fallon Rechnitz–who set her video-capable digital camera on a stack of books, then hit the record button and spoke for about 30 seconds, instantly producing a video resume she plans to send to potential employers–is at…

Advocates of educational technology are applauding a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this week that gives companies new protections against patent lawsuits.

The High Court’s decision, which makes it easier to chall…

As technology director of the Monforton School, a rural K-8 institution six miles west of Bozeman, Mont., Greg Hamley spends the better part of his days tinkering with network protocols and troubleshooting problems for t…

Building on existing efforts to bridge the digital divide worldwide, software giant Microsoft Corp. is offering a $3 software package to governments that subsidize student computers used at home and at school.

Though …

At the end of a dimly lit corridor in the heart of the Academy of Information Technology and Engineering (AITE), a 450-student public high school in Stamford, Conn., a student stares into a camera lens. The wall behind h…