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- U.K. government loses data on driving-test candidates
- U.K. government loses data on driving-test candidatesHuh?Why was a hard disk containing all of this information from Britain or where ever that was doing in Iowa City, Iowa? Now Geography was never my best subject in school but to the best of my knowledge there is no Iowa City,...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- Student information systems meet Web 2.0
- Student information systems meet Web 2.0Have you heard of Go.edustar?Hi,I work for a SIS co., Go.edu? We used to develop the Pro/Star SIS with many happy clients still using it.I would like to offer you more information about our Web 2.0 based SIS system which is far superior to Powerschool...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-19
- Pearson's wiki business book
- Our world has certainly changed if Pearson, the publishing giant behind the Financial Times, Les Echos or Penguin Books, has decided to use a wiki to create a new business book. According to the Wall Street Journal in U.K.s Pearson Tests The Group Dynamic For a Wiki Book (paid registration...
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- Publisher's digital curriculum being adopted in Calif.
- In an experiment that could set an educational trend, some California elementary schools are using a custom-built digital history curriculum in lieu of traditional textbooks, reports eSchool News. The innovative history program called History/Social Science for California click here for video is a product from educational publisher Pearson...
- Blog posts 2006-08-17
- Pearson acquires Chancery, formerly No. 2 in SIS market
- Coming on the heels of announcing that it acquired Apple Computer's PowerSchool, Pearson School Systems has bought Canadian student information systems provider Chancery Software Ltd. for an undisclosed sum, reports eSchool News. The aquisition makes Pearson the word's largest provider of student information systems SIS for the K-12...
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- Pearson buys Apple's SIS software, PowerSchool
- Apple Computer is selling its PowerSchool division to Pearson School Systems, eSchoolNews reports. PowerSchool is student information systems software that Apple purchased for $62 million in 2001. It tracks information about student performance online, such as grades, homework, and attendance. Pearson also announced that it is developing educational content...
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
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- A+ Certification Prep Course (2009 Edition)
- View Available Dates and LocationsCompTIA's A+ certification is the industry standard for validating the foundational skills needed by today's computer support technicians. This international vendor-neutral certification requires that you pass two exams: CompTIA A+ Essentials Exam 220-701 and Practical Application Exam 220-702. In this lecture-only course...
- Training 2009-11-01
- Get a vendor-neutral overview of your virtualization options
- This sample chapter from Practical Virtualization Solutions examines popular virtualization strategies from an application and performance perspective and looks at the pros and cons of each technology. Title: Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches Authors: Kenneth Hess and Amy...
- Book chapters 2009-10-27
- The Bird Study Book for iPhone 1.2 (Mobile)
- The Bird Study Book for iPhone is the complete original 1917 classic treatise by T. Gilbert Pearson. It features topics such as first acquaintance with the birds, the life about the nest, domestic life of the birds, the migration of birds, the birds in winter, the economic value of birds,...
- Software downloads 2009-10-07
- CA digital textbooks initiative falls flat
- Here is California's review of digital high school textbooks. As AP reports, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been promoting the idea that schools would use these free texts as a way to save money and bring education into the 21st century. First, it's interesting to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Cisco IT pro publishes techniques on "growing" a green data center new book on
- There's a new book out this month from Cisco IT architect Douglas Alger called "Grow a Green Data Center." (The book is published by Cisco Press, which is a technology imprint of Pearson Education.) The author says the book is a compilation of best practices and techniques for optimizing...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Fortune 500 Series: How EMC used social media to recruit, re-brand, rebuild
- EMC can best be described as an entity. Not only in the Fortune 500, the infrastructure information provider was recognized by Fortune as one of the 10 most admired companies for product and service quality. This success didn't come easy to the giant, which needed to significantly rebuild its business...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Pearson Gains Real-Time Enterprise Performance Insight With Standardized Reporting and Planning
- Pearson wanted to cut monthly close times by standardizing and consolidating financial reporting for three major global businesses and reduce software licensing and management costs. The challenge was to build transparent, consistent, agile financial management and planning infrastructure to gain real-time enterprise performance visibility and increase competitive advantage and ensure...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- The American Textbook Accessibility Act
- Yesterday, I posted some thoughts about Arizona State University's use of the Kindle in a pilot program and the heat the school was taking over the inability of blind students to use the devices. While the controversy seemed overblown to me, it sparked an interesting conversation with fellow blogger,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without content
- I know...it's the Apple rumor mill hard at work. The blogosphere is and has been abuzz with news of an upcoming uber-Touch from Apple and a new storm of news hit the Net today with the Financial Times announcement of some degree of rumor confirmation and a tablet, for...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- (Photos: At Air Force Academy, a B-52 tells the story)
- (Photos: At Air Force Academy, a B-52 tells the story)B-52 tells a storyI enjoyed the photos of the B-52 at the academy. Your descriptive information gives the impression that the B-52 served for 27 years. The B-52B Entered service in June of 1955. The B-52 is...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- IBM consultant publishes step-by-step guide for greening your IT
- Here's one for your summer beach reading list: "The Greening of IT," a new tome about "How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment," written by John Lamb, a senior technical staffer with IBM's Global Business Services division in Somers, N.Y. (If you visit this link, you'll get a...
- Blog posts 2009-05-25
- Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger Kindle
- I read a great article this morning in InformationWeek. It didn't focus on any of my concerns with the Kindle DX (high cost, black and white screen, lack of WiFi, closed standards, DRM, etc.). Rather, it went to the heart of educational content for the device: ...what...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- How free wins...or does it?
- Do you remember when building a website required an intimate knowledge of HTML and hours of pain just to get off the starting blocks? Or how about a CMS starting at $100K? That's less than 10 years ago and yet today, 'free' is the mantra for modern software. Phil Wainewright...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills 11.0.5 (Mobile)
- Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skillspowered by Skyscape Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc. Appropriate for all levels of nursing?from basic to advanced. This best selling resource remains a comprehensive source of the essential information needed for success at all levels of nursing.With more than 1200 full-colorimages illustrating over 750 new...
- Software downloads 2008-11-16
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