Neowin News Feed for: Education

Microsoft offering Surface RT to students for $199 [Update]

Andy Weir — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:13:04 +0100

Starting today, and until August 31 2013, Microsoft will be making its Surface RT 32GB tablet available to students for just $199, through their schools and universities. Read more...

Livemocha merges with Rosetta Stone to change how we learn languages

Paul Ferson — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:32:17 +0100

Livemocha has sent an email to its users alerting them that the company is now part of Rosetta Stone, letting users know that this will not change their ability to learn and hinting at a redesign too. Read more...

Microsoft opens fourteen Innovation Centres across India

Paul Ferson — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:52:29 +0000

Microsoft has launched fourteen Innovation Centres across four Indian states. The centres allow for students to gain certification with Microsoft's products, with seven in Andhra Pradesh alone. Read more...

Microsoft donates $250 million for education program

John Callaham — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:42:11 +0000

Microsoft has announced it will donate $250 million to the company's Partners in Learning program, which is designed to offer more resources for both students and teachers. Read more...

Microsoft's push to hire overseas workers raises eyebrows

John Callaham — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:08:03 +0000

Microsoft wants to recruit more of its employees from outside the United States, but its efforts have raised concerns from others that it might be keeping qualified US workers from getting jobs. Read more...

Free digital textbooks for university students in California

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:38:45 +0100

California Governor Jerry Brown has passed new legislation that will bring free digital textbooks to students at all community colleges in the state as well as those attending University of California Read more...

Microsoft to push for better tech education in US

John Callaham — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:35:37 +0100

Microsoft has published a new white paper with a proposal for improving tech education here in the US along with trying to bring qualified foreign citizens to also work in the country. Read more...

Samsung to release Student Edition GTab, undercutting their own product

Paul Ferson — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:30:19 +0100

Samsung are to release a new variant of their Galaxy Tab 7.0. Entitled the 'Student Edition', it includes extras and retails for the same price as a standard model.... for some reason. Read more...

Microsoft Office 365 for education now available

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:51:39 +0100

On its first anniversary, Microsoft announced that it has launched its education version of its cloud-based Office 365 productivity software suite, giving free access to students and teachers. Read more...

Bill Gates: Just giving a tablet to students won't help them

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:10:35 +0100

In a new interview, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says that just giving tablets to students won't help them, as he believes they will need a low cost PC to help improve their education. Read more...

Teacher aide fired for not providing Facebook password

Stefano Elia — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:31:06 +0100

A teacher's aide was fired due to content on her Facebook and refusing to give her Facebook password to her employer, now she's embroiled in a legal battle with the school district. Read more...

School tells students to delete Facebook profiles

Paul Ferson — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:19:28 +0100

Students at a high school in Brooklyn, New York, have been told to delete their Facebook accounts due to a breach of the school's policy. Read more...

Microsoft promotes using Kinect in schools

John Callaham — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:13:02 +0000

Microsoft is promoting the use of its Kinect motion- and gesture-based interaction device in the classroom, claiming that students who use the product retain and comprehend information better. Read more...

Codecademy crowdsources programming lessons

Tyler Holman — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:07:40 +0000

Codecademy is bringing teaching to the masses with Course Creator, a new crowdsourced social tool that lets anyone create programming lessons in Java, Ruby and Python. Who needs qualifications? Read more...

Apple e-textbooks downloaded 350K times in 3 days

Nathan Tsui — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:29:57 +0000

Apple's e-textbooks, launched alongside iBooks 2 on January 19, have already been downloaded more than 350,000 times, and over 90,000 users have downloaded the authoring tool to make e-textbooks. Read more...

Microsoft donates $1M to improve teaching in Africa

Christopher White — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:13:43 +0000

Microsoft is donating $1,000,000 to build technology centers in various countries around Africa. These centers will help improve education and give students access to more resources. Read more...

Apple launches iMac model for education for under $1,000

John Callaham — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:39:01 +0100

If you are buying computers for your school you now have a chance to purchase a new iMac from Apple for under $1,000. Read more...

Amazon now renting textbooks on Kindle

Eric Lehman — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:27:16 +0100

Students, rejoice! Amazon has announced that the company will now be offering textbook rentals on Kindle devices and through the Kindle app on other platforms. According to Amazon, textbooks can be rented at up to... Read more...

Chrome OS for business and for schools, with hardware subscriptions

Tzvi Friedman — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:08:31 +0100

Google is not only releasing Chrome OS to the consumer market. At today’s keynote at Google I/O, Google pushed the significance of Chrome OS in the enterprise. Touting partnerships with Citrix and other cloud/virtualization firms,... Read more...

Study: iPads enhanced learning experience at Oklahoma State University

Denis Wong — Thu, 05 May 2011 07:38:54 +0100

There have been a few pilot projects for the use of iPads in the education sector. Last month, Virginia Beach schools spent $651,000 on iPads to distribute to elementary students, while a school district in... Read more...