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Case Studies

School Students Adopt Online Collaboration Tools Read how Marion County Public Schools in Florida utilized Microsoft Live@edu to improve the way their students and teachers communicated and collaborated inside and outside the classroom.

Education Networks of America Executive Summary The American learning environment is in a state of flux. With the computer boom behind us, educators are looking forward to the potentials of technology-infused classrooms. Read how Scott County School System (SCSS), TN, has achieved educational settings designed to foster problem-solving, collaboration, innovation and equity of opportunity.

Teaching With Technology: Lecture Webcasting This paper overviews lecture webcasting and summarizes findings from several evolutions of the technology. It also focuses on attendance issues, learning outcomes, student behavior regarding access to archived webcasts and effects on instructors quality of teaching.

Whitepapers

Longitudinal data systems in education: Leveraging the SAS Business Analytics Framework to accelerate implementations and minimize risk

Teaching With Technology: Collaboration Tools In this paper, a working model of the collaborative process and basic approaches to assessing project-based group work are discussed as well as potential risks and benefits of taking project-based collaborative learning online.

Horizon Report 2009 The sixth annual report of Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC's Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations.

Executive Content

Exploring the Cloud - In this podcast, Surendra Reddy, Former VP of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, defines 'cloudonomics,' talks about cloud security, and explains why he believes companies should deconstruct their IT infrastructure and embrace cloud.

Integrating Technology, People & Processes for Better Healthcare In this Thought-leadership Series interview, Dr. Harry Jacobson, retired Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Vanderbilt University & Sr. Adviser, Informatics Corp. of America, discusses why healthcare is an information-dependent service business, and how people, processes and tech need to work together to make healthcare better.