In the WeatherX project, a collaboration involving EDC, Mount Washington Observatory, the University of Washington, and the Concord Consortium, we engage middle school students with weather data and weather science….
…Consortium is redoubling its efforts to improve the design of our online activities. After reviewing the W3C criteria for accessibility conformance, known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), we…
…Finzer, we are modernizing CODAP, reengineering its underlying source code from the ground up. With new web application development tools, CODAP will be a fully open, flexible, and customizable online…
…worksheets and documents. In another publishing stint, Leslie worked at Pearson to develop an online platform capable of asking and answering STEM questions. She recognized that students, instructors, and authors…
…be identifying minerals? To begin, we needed to show how rock-forming processes and tectonic processes are interconnected. We developed a unique online computational model and simulation for students to investigate…
…CODAP, our Common Online Data Analysis Platform. (And in the past month, a few updates to CODAP—including search by location, hourly observations in addition to daily and monthly, and much…
…(Massive Open Online Course) “Introduction to Solid State Chemistry” through a new collaboration with edX. Chad Dorsey described our vision of deeply digital education at the national Cyberlearning Research Summit….
…to deliver killer animations for digital textbooks or online courses. After all, like games, the competition in the education media market will eventually be driven by the quality of animations….
…online so that it could be modified. PCAST also recommends that a mission-oriented organization be created to implement its recommendations—not the Department of Education, which is not allowed to, or…
…hope the real-time Class Dashboard will make it easier for teachers to track student progress and assess student performance on our online activities. Teachers are using the dashboard not only…