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Intel's Schools of Distinction: Learning from the Star Innovators

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:06:30 -0800

Since 2004, Intel has been honoring exemplary math and science programs through its annual Schools of Distinction award—and selecting one outstanding school each year to receive top recognition as a Star Innovator. What can we learn from these award-winning programs about successful STEM implementations? How do their approaches mirror those identified by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as characteristic of the highest performing education systems in the world?

Active Participation Is Key to Student Learning

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:37:32 -0800

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Student response systems help teachers turn classrooms into places where students are engaged, fulfilled, and in control of their learning.

How Web-based Tools Change Teaching and Learning

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:31:04 -0800

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Today's students are online and using Web 2.0 tools, and schools are beginning to capitalize on this phenomenon by integrating web-based tools in the classroom. Many believe that using technology is key to transforming schools into efficient and effective learning communities. This eBook will help you understand how valuable Web 2.0 technologies are and how we can help educators to use these tools to meet the challenges ahead.

Next Generation Business Data Analytics

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:49:08 -0800

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21st century businesses demand timely access to varied data sources, analysis of exponentially growing data volumes, and rapid reaction to/prediction of changing events. Common challenges such as meeting increased performance needs, handling complex analytic queries, mitigating risk, and solving specific business problems in a continually diminishing time window require a transition from the days of relational database management systems that have been in vogue for the last 30 years to analytic engines that can process huge data volumes rapidly.

The Data Management Slam Dunk: A Unified Integration Platform

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:45:13 -0800

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With the Information Superhighway now stretching to practically everywhere, anyone in charge of corporate data has something in common – the need for an effective means of governance. While the challenges vary from one industry and company to the next, the underlying reality is universal: businesses that hope to remain agile must find a way to secure a strategic view of enterprise data.

Classroom Video: Tools and Strategies to Engage Students in Learning

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:48:34 -0700

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This eBook is a guide to understanding student engagement, strategies that work, and how to use and integrate a particularly effective tool in this digital age: video in the classroom. Video is shaping the world around us. Students watch videos and should understand what they see and learn how to create effective videos. Addressing student engagement means turning tools for personal enjoyment into tools for engaged learning.

Keeping Students Safe Online: What Works

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:44:46 -0700

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Educators today have to be concerned about students' online safety, as much as traditional curricular subjects. Recent research has shown that using fear-based instruction does not keep kids safe, or stop behaviors that put them at risk. So what does work? This guide is designed to help you navigate the issues, understand the risks, and learn the research behind how best to address the concerns about online activities for students.

A New Generation of Wi-Fi in K-12

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:20:52 -0700

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School districts have gone online to improve student learning, professional development, data management, safety, and district-wide communications. To achieve all this, they must connect users' computers to a network – preferably, one that doesn't break the budget and is straightforward to maintain and grow. These networks require some smarts and enhanced features so they can be quickly provisioned and managed. They also need the performance to support the latest instructional multimedia applications. And, as their role becomes central to daily instruction and administration, they need rock-solid reliability.

Open MDM Value: A Simple Introduction to Master Data Management

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:32:21 -0700

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Master Data Management is a complex topic and a successful MDM project requires careful orchestration of the people, process and technologies involved. Ultimately, MDM is a practice that is enabled by technology.

Aligning resources across an enterprise and even within a single department can be a formidable challenge. Often we are faced with significant political issues that place project success at risk. Compounding these basic innate human nature aspects are complex architectural concerns.

Improving Student Achievement: Professional Development and Informed Instruction

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:30:17 -0700

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Providing teachers with the means to affect and increase individual student achievement is a win-win for everyone, and technology makes a big difference. It begins with online, on-demand professional development and participation in a professional learning community. Teachers learn about making data meaningful and using specific ideas for timely intervention with their students. And it ends with teachers using more effective methods to improve student learning and achievement.

The Benefits of a Single Platform for Data Management

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:47:36 -0700

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If your organization is like most, you have data everywhere. Customers, products, assets, suppliers—all produce data that can, if managed properly, help your company succeed. Almost invariably, companies that base key business decisions on good data perform more prosperously than their competitors, because the responsible use of that data enables them to better understand their customers and operations.

Why Data Modeling Matters to the Information Management Professional

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:13:26 -0700

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View this complimentary eBook for industry insights, white papers, success stories and interactive resources about the importance of data modeling for today's information management professional. Learn perspectives from industry experts, discover the key benefits and ROI of getting data modeling done right, gain firsthand proof of concept from a data modeling client and explore a wealth of resources from discussion forum to events. You'll also have access to user tips, techniques and a download center for more product solutions.

Make Better, Faster Decisions

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:32:53 -0700

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Manufacturing managers are changing the way they make decisions. Learn about the key areas where companies have made major errors in the past, and how they're rethinking decision making in light of current economic realities.

Transforming Education: Turning Classrooms Into Collaborative, Interactive, and Efficient Learning Environments

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:47:46 -0700

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Today's teachers have more of a challenge than ever to manage their technology-filled classrooms and make sure each student reaches his or her potential. Luckily for them, the latest classroom-management software includes applications that help with lesson planning and student assessment. See how this type of technology can help you turn your class into an efficient room filled with 21st-century learners.

Improving Performance with Oracle Data Warehousing

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:48:37 -0700

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For many of today's IT organizations, data management has gotten out of hand. Faced with increasing pressures to retrieve the right data at the right time, enterprises are struggling to manage enormous and fast growing data stores across multiple data warehouses built through internal development, or acquired through merger or acquisition. Stringing independent warehouses together to create an integrated, high performing architecture is the goal—but many companies are frankly falling short of that vision and serious weaknesses in business performance arise as a result.