educational

Interesting! It looks like HP has its own take on the “Classmate PC” concept. Its launching a $300 netbook computer aimed at schoolchildren and intended for use in classrooms. The Mini 100e Education Edition, as it’s called, will include education and security software from Microsoft, including…

Microsoft Education Labs recently introduced a new plug-in for Moodle, the course management system (CMS) used by educators worldwide to create online courses. The open source system runs on nearly any operating system and is free to use, which is probably why it has become so popular. According to…

A new service called Eduify launched on the Windows Azure platform. This service is designed to help students with their writing by providing tutorials, samples, and information about how to verify and cite sources in research papers. Edufiy also adds a social element to the writing process as…

A UK-based educational software company called RM has a Microsoft Surface game for students in development meant to show how the computer can be used in an educational setting. There’s now a (long 10-minute) video of this game in action which is available for viewing here on YouTube. The video gives…

Recently, Dr. Neil Roodyn sat down with Eric Havir from the Microsoft Surface team to talk about some of the apps Dr. Roodyn’s company, nsquared, based in Sydney, Australia, was building for the Microsoft Surface computer. The apps are designed for educational purposes, some with the focus on young…

Microsoft recently introducing a new programming language meant to teach kids how to program: Small Basic. The project aims to make programming fun by providing a small and easy-to-learn programming language in an environment that’s customize for kids, or any novice programmers looking to venture…

Microsoft is teaming up with a handful of universities to study if and how computer games can be useful in education for teaching students math, science, and technology. The research project has Microsoft working with NYU as well as City University of New York, Columbia University, Dartmouth…

Here's a much more fun way to learn geography than just staring at a map - a game called Statetris lets you learn geography by playing an online game, similar to Tetris, where states or countries are the blocks which you must move or rotate to fit them into the correct locations. The Tetris board…

Computer Science Emil Ernerfeldt came up with Phun for his Master of Science Thesis. The game/tool can be used as a educational program for learning about physics concepts like restitution and friction, or it can be used just for fun. After downloading Phun (works on 32-bit and 64-bit systems), you…