Are your students missing out on real laboratory experiences due to the cost of real laboratory instrumentation? The Integrated Instrumentation Network (ILN) project at Western Washington University has developed a way to share actual (not simulated) lab instrumentation with faculty and students around the world – with live control via the internet. Wow… […]

There is so much to see and talk about here at the Microsoft booth (#1354) at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) annual conference. Outside of the whiz-bang cool demos and Worldwide Telescope Planetarium in the booth, I want to make sure teachers and technology specialists know about some new curriculum and educator resource kits we […]

These are extremely challenging times for higher education institutions that are struggling with the balance between efficiency and cost cutting, and maintaining and improving their overall effectiveness. While $2.4 trillion is spent on education every year worldwide, effectiveness of spend can be as low as 7% according to the World Bank. How do you assess y […]