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Information Today July 23, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
E-Rate Connects America's Classrooms, Libraries The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation convened on July 17, 2013 to discuss ways to strengthen E-Rate (E-Rate 2.0: Connecting Every Child to the Transformative Power of Technology). |
T.H.E. Journal June 2006 Victor Rivero |
High-Speed Broadband: A Need for Speed Slow connectivity is imperiling the quality of our nation's K-12 education, while the rest of the world sets the pace technologically. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Mitchell Lazarus |
When Spectrum Auctions Fail For some microwave links, cooperation beats competition as a way to share the air |
T.H.E. Journal May 2004 |
LightPointe Offers Cost-Effective Optical Wireless Solution for K-12, Higher Ed Lemon Grove School District and New School University implement high-bandwidth network connections for increased productivity and faster connectivity. |
PC World May 10, 2001 Tom Spring |
Fiber Optics Fans Foresee Lightning-Fast Web Access SBC joins small but growing band of firms offering fiber-optic broadband... |
T.H.E. Journal November 2004 Joni Lindquist |
The Future of Anytime, Anywhere Education Many districts are now looking at anytime, anywhere access to multimedia content as a next step in accomplishing educational goals and expanding the learning environment. |
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 John K. Waters |
Now What? We put the question to a host of K-12 IT leaders: If you had a one-shot chance to spend a big sum of technology money, where would you begin? Here are their shopping lists. |
PHONE+ July 20, 2009 |
Case Study: LifeSize Takes Teachers to Class With looming budget cuts, one school district turns to video communication to keep teachers connected for professional development, staff meetings, and training sessions. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2, 2010 Charlene O'Hanlon |
All Systems Go The adoption of two cutting edge technologies transforms a fickle wireless network into a fast, efficient engine of learning. |
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 Robert J. McGarvey |
You Want Me to What ? It's a riddle faced by virtually every IT director: how to fulfill users' desire for more muscular computing resources while still obliging administrators' commands to keep education spending down. |
Wired April 2001 |
Turn on the Light Optical networking will explode, and the way we connect to everything will never be the same... |
CIO June 1, 2001 John Edwards |
Space Host Enterprises turn to satellites for affordable broadband access... |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go. |
T.H.E. Journal October 29, 2009 David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States. |
InternetNews November 17, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
Narrowband on the Decline in the U.S. Dial-up sheds users in a number of U.S. states, but the nation continues being outpaced globally. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 John K. Waters |
Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical. |
InternetNews June 11, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Microsoft Joining Broadband Initiative Microsoft is teaming with advocacy groups to promote broadband connectivity in schools, libraries and healthcare facilities. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2002 |
Case Study: Metropolitan Area Network Helps University City Schools Raise Test Scores The School District of University City, adjacent to St. Louis, Mo., offers an expanding array of classroom applications to its 4,200 students, and 300 staff and faculty members. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 Steffen Koehler |
Advances in hybrid optical packaging enable high-bandwidth photonic RF transmission The challenge in exploiting optical fiber for RF transmission lies in getting the RF signals on and off the fiber without degrading the signals. Advances in optical packaging technology are making improvements to military equipment possible. |
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Shape, Throttle, and Roll Bandwidth management technology enables school districts to keep their networks running free and easy. |
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010 Reinhard Kargl |
Getting an Earful Classroom audio systems have become a must-include component of comprehensive technology upgrades. The point is not just to give more oomph and clarity to teachers' voices, but to have sound quality worthy of the video now commonly streaming to their computers. |
Information Today April 29, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
FCC and IMLS Focus on Libraries, Broadband, and the Future of Net Neutrality Libraries as Key to Addressing the Digital Divide... The FCC Announces a Game-Change for Net Neutrality... Governmental and Business Efforts to Speed Up Access... |
T.H.E. Journal November 2001 |
Fiber to the School Desk To run high-bandwidth intensive programs like video-on-demand and distance learning, many schools are finding that their installed cabling systems are not adequate and need to be replaced... |
Home Toys December 2004 Wayne Caswell |
Big Broadband: Public Infrastructure or Private Monopolies How speed, affordability, access, and logistics affect the future of broadband along with two different business models and their probable outcomes. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 16, 2014 Michael Blanding |
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening? |
PC World September 2001 Tom Spring |
Broadband: Beyond DSL and Cable Fiber Optics makes superfast Internet access affordable -- if you can get it... |
T.H.E. Journal August 2001 Mark Allen |
University MTU Installations While recent technologies have made inroads into provisioning high-speed access to multiple-tenant units (MTUs), such as office complexes, apartments and hotels, the future landscape of university broadband services awaits untapped... |
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Yang & Green |
Welcome to Broadband City Towns are rushing to build Wi-Fi systems. Cable and phone giants don't like it one bit. |
CIO February 15, 2002 Ben Worthen |
The Last Mile---Wireless Style Fixed wireless can provide an affordable option, but don't forget to factor in Mother Nature |
T.H.E. Journal December 10, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
5 K-12 Technology Trends for 2010 These tech trends include greater use of ebook readers, interactive whiteboards, personal devices in the classroom, and more. |
InternetNews June 27, 2007 Roy Mark |
New Numbers Show U.S. Lag in Broadband The United States continues to lag behind most industrialized nations in broadband speeds, according to a new report by the Communications Workers of America. |
InternetNews February 10, 2010 |
Google Moves In on ISP Market The search giant branches out with plans for its own 'ultra-high-speed' broadband networks to bring download speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second through fiber-to-the-home connections. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2010 Mitchell Lazarus |
The Great Radio Spectrum Famine Mobile broadband is consuming the available radio spectrum. Serving up more won't be easy |
T.H.E. Journal October 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For Technologists Who do Their Homework In consecutive America's Digital Schools surveys, tech directors predicted increases in the amount of bandwidth schools will need in future years. |
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Title I-- and Then Some School districts are getting creative in finding ways to finance technology purchases, blending Title I dollars with money from numerous other funding sources. |
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua |
Scare Tactics In April, as public fears about a mysterious new strain of flu grew, the Los Angeles Unified School District moved to forestall a panic. Many districts are using technology solutions to respond to emergencies such as this. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Use of technology by teachers... Energy efficient schools... Awards... Industry news... |
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Verizon's FTTP Plan Takes Shape Emerging details of the carrier's fiber plan could create ripples in the broadband market. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2006 Wendy Chretien |
A Whole New World of Wi-Fi Think you have a handle on wireless technology in K-12? Not so fast. New standards and technical breakthroughs are about to alter the landscape again. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Computer Science Courses Show Steep Decline... Students to Take on Challenge to Change the World... Avermedia Announces Stimulus Promotion... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 |
FlightStrata LightPointe, a designer and manufacturer of optical wireless products based on free-space optics technology, is now offering its FlightStrata model for fiber-like, building-to-building connectivity. |
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Rosenbush et al. |
Broadband: What's The Holdup? The U.S. lags far behind global leaders such as Korea and Japan, where broadband is far faster and cheaper, thanks to more focused national policy, less cumbersome regulation, and more densely populated regions. What's holding up the US with broadband? |
PC Magazine February 1, 2006 Matthew D. Sarrel |
Business Broadband Confused by all the high-speed Internet services vying for your business? Here's what you need to know. |
InternetNews September 9, 2004 Roy Mark |
FCC Splits on U.S. Broadband Rollout Success Despite the U.S. being ranked eleventh in the world in broadband penetration, commissioners narrowly approve a report to Congress praising deployment rates of high-speed services. |
T.H.E. Journal February 10, 2010 David Nagel |
'E-Rate 2.0' Would Expand Broadband Access, Fund E-Book Pilot E-rate is a federal program that provides schools and libraries with discounts on telecommunications, Internet, and networking technologies and services. |
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
A Revolution on Hold In their push toward using digital content in the classroom, many schools are stuck in second gear until basic changes to both infrastructure and entrenched habits are made. But even as school districts grapple with making those changes, policymakers have begun to move forward. |
InternetNews April 7, 2009 David Needle |
Teachers Driving Web 2.0 Adoption? A new survey indicates teachers are leading the charge to get more Web 2.0 services into the classroom. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Christine Fox |
More Than Machines Comprehensive technology integration programs go beyond laptop initiatives to provide teachers with the support they need to improve student engagement and achievement. |