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Funding social innovation that supports entrepreneurship, education and life experiences for young people in New England.

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Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is pioneering the use of smart phones as teaching tools.

Specifically, VUSN is one of the first in the nation to use a new application that transforms wireless devices, including Blackberry, iPod and iTouch, and laptops into classroom response devices for enhanced learning.

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Jeff Shelstad and Eric Frank founded Flat World Knowledge to allow professors and students slice, dice and download required reading.

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If the ongoing social networking revolution has you scratching your head and asking, "Why do people spend time on this?" and "How can my company benefit from the social network revolution?" you've got a lot in common with Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski.

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Letter to the NYTimes Editor in response to "Selling Lesson Plans Online, Teachers Raise Cash and Questions"

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Great Google docs share (spreadsheet) list on the power of Twitter in education.

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Edu1world announced today a strategic alliance with eThority to offer “edu1world Data Explorer,” a user-friendly front end to edu1world research data. Free to full time higher education employees, edu1world Data Explorer, powered by eThority Enterprise Edition, will enable higher education decision makers to access, analyze, explore and create in-depth reports from edu1world’s proprietary database. The edu1world Higher Education Institution Technology Profile Database contains technology profile data on more than 4,600 institutions, tracks information for over 80 data fields, and lists more than 23,000 technology products and vendors. Available on edu1world.org, the new tool will save time, drive vendor transparency, and facilitate information sharing regarding technology decisions.

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Edline provides the world’s leading technology solutions that help schools improve student performance by harnessing the power of parental involvement, supporting teachers, and engaging the learning community.

Edlline offers an array of technology solutions that support this mission: web hosting, content management, information portals, and tools for classroom management, gradebook, notification, analytics, virtual storage and related technologies—all of which can be deployed individually or together as part of an integrated and comprehensive Learning Community Management System.

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Although a majority of states do not require financial-literacy classes in K-12 schools, the nation’s recent economic struggles have spurred growing interest in the subject by educators—many of whom are turning to digital-game-based approaches to teach students about personal finance and investing.

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Designed by and for digital users, MoneyU creates a whole new paradigm in financial learning.  Goodbye boring textbooks and lectures. Hello integrated videos, cartoons, humor, widgets and simulations.

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SKILL-LIFE’s game-based platform lets youth earn real-world rewards as they play cool games that teach them life skills such as financial literacy, nutrition, and citizenship!  Our mission is to provide families fun, effective, and easily-accessible tools that increase young people’s real-world savvy.

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Unique web-based online financial literacy solutions for secondary schools (independent, public, parochial), post-secondary, nonprofits and others.

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The IMI Vision: To help raise a new generation with skills that ensure financial self-reliance and well being, and values that support lives of purpose and passion.Mission Statement: Independent Means strives to be the ultimate source of financial education and information.

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For the second consecutive year, the eLearning Guild survey, which measures use of over 100 professionally-developed LMS products and excludes in-house created sys tems, shows that Moodle™ is ranked as the #1 LMS product among eLearning Guild members with over 24% of respondents selecting it as their primary LMS.

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If professors record their lectures and put them online, will students still come to class?

That question came up in two different sessions at the 2009 Educause Conference here on Friday. And in both cases, the panelists cited research indicating that students’ likelihood of skipping class has no correlation with whether a professor decides to capture her lecture and post it the Web.

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Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave.

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School Town is a new online learning platform designed specifically for K12 to empower teachers, engage students, and share information with parents. The hosted platform gives each teacher a class site to deliver any curriculum and secure Web2.0 tools for safe student collaboration. We make online teaching easy and help students realize their full potential.

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A recognized leader in higher education consulting, Noel-Levitz is committed to helping institutions meet their goals for enrollment and student success.During our 36-year history, more than 2,000 campuses have invited Noel-Levitz to collaborate with them.

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